Mass Effect Movie: No Femshep, no Seth Green, Original Story.

[OldNewNewOld]

Wow, so much BS in 1 post.
Just one thing, male Shepard has a default look, fem. doesn't. The main character of the game, the one the designers wanted was the default, male Shepard. If you don't like him, you could have changed it, but he's still the default one. So choosing him was the most logical thing to do.

He is the face of the game. Is there even 1 (ONE) ME player who doesn't know how the default Shepard looks like? Who doesn't know that the default on is just a solider. Not a biotic, not an engineer, just a simple solider?

If someone makes a movie based on an open world like ME, he SHOULD do it with the default settings. Everything else would alienate the game to the vast majority.

 

[Peteron]

Well, I prefer a male Shepard. But them going with an original storyline does not sound good to me.

 

[tahrey]

and if people just can't handle the film's main character not being the same gender as the one they're playing in the game they probably need to rethink how they critique movies

Absolutely this. Someone's going to be disappointed no matter HOW they approach this. If the main character, who has to be portrayed in one way or the other in a movie situation but not both, not being shown as the same one you chose to play them as in a game which offers several choices that you're free to take, is enough to make you want to boycott the film (or be "alienated" by it - protip, you're going to be anyway, as it's a movie and you're not in control the same way you are in the game) then you've got serious issues you need to work out.

Maybe consider is as a movie about an alternate universe version of you, who is actually a space marine, may or may not be a different gender/race/general appearance, and may not behave the same way either? But as it's on celluloid you can't change that?

Ngh.

Perhaps they could have a twin brother/sister pair, and the gimmick is that hardly anyone in the army knows this because they always operate in such widely divided theatres - both doing epic, legendary things such as to get their surname universally known - that very, very few people are ever likely to run across both of them in their lifetime. And most of them will be aliens who aren't hugely brilliant at telling the difference between humans of different genders/races...

Or Shep gets hit by some alien virus that allows him/her (presumably he would start the movie as the bodytype representative of what the largest minority of players choose) to shapeshift, maybe even forcing randomised shifting during the early stages depending on what his subconcious desires at that point. Feeling horny... becomes a hot girl... needs extra strength... turns into a cartoonish strongman... gets hungry... turns into a steak. That sort of thing. Until the ability can be controlled and used to tactical advantage.

Now if you guys are up in arms about this sort of thing, imagine how the jobbing anime fanboys amongst us feel about how Akira looks like it's going to be treated (there's a fixed storyline, fixed setting, fixed cast list with fixed characters with fixed names, genders, racial type, etc... but they're basically chucking that lot in the bin and keeping a/ the name, b/ a vaguely post apocalyptic cityscape setting. There may or not be bikes, or a couple guys called Tetsuo and Kaneda, or a creepy government ESP-kid-weapon scheme going on, it's almost certainly not going to be set in Neo Tokyo, and said Neo Neo York is unlikely to E*X*P*L*O*D*E). Or about what happened to Avat... er, the Last Airbender. Or Dragonball.

Man, fuck hollywood... Let's just make a fan-movie instead.

(though tomb raider was at least "alright", it must be said

 

[AngryFrenchCanadian]

So, no surprise there. Did the first Mass Effect even have an option to be female?

Yes, yes it did.

 

[The-Epicly-Named-Man]

"No FemShep"
What was the alternative, an audience decided vote?
"No Seth Green"
Well seen as Joker left absolutely no impression on me, I don't really give a hoot.
"Original story"
Thank God, ME's main plot is as generic as it's male lead.

Overall, Mass Effect can suck my b*lls, whether it be a game or a film.

 

[Jeralt2100]

The male vs female Shepard debate really doesn't hold a lot of water for me, especially in this context. I'm fine with /either/ being in the movie. The original plotline I see as a positive. The trilogy's story would be very difficult to adapt into a film and there are so many stories that could be told about Shepard and his crew, so a tightly woven story would be welcome.

Seth Green isn't Joker? That's.....strange, I would certainly prefer him play the role that was designed FOR HIM, but I'll judge the film as best I can prior to its release and try to decide whether I want to see it or not.

 

[Riff Moonraker]

First, I think it would be a mistake to make Shepard female for this movie. A majority of the Mass Effect fans play a male shepard, including me. I did play a femshep for one of my playthroughs, but my main game is a male shepard.

I will agree with you about Joker... it really needs to be Seth Green. I also would put in my vote for Matthew Fox to be Commander Shepard.

Just remember, we are talking about Hollywood here, and they have quite obviously lost any creative sensibility they have had a long time ago, so I dont hold up any hopes for this to be worth a shit anyway, unfortunately.

 

[Riff Moonraker]

"No FemShep"
What was the alternative, an audience decided vote?
"No Seth Green"
Well seen as Joker left absolutely no impression on me, I don't really give a hoot.
"Original story"
Thank God, ME's main plot is as generic as it's male lead.

Overall, Mass Effect can suck my b*lls, whether it be a game or a film.

So... in all honesty, WHY bother posting in this thread?

 

[tmande2nd]

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

That sums up all my feelings about the Mass Effect movie.... and the franchise.
Oh and Shepard.
And Joker.

And about most things in general come to think about it.

 

[The-Epicly-Named-Man]

"No FemShep"
What was the alternative, an audience decided vote?
"No Seth Green"
Well seen as Joker left absolutely no impression on me, I don't really give a hoot.
"Original story"
Thank God, ME's main plot is as generic as it's male lead.

Overall, Mass Effect can suck my b*lls, whether it be a game or a film.

So... in all honesty, WHY bother posting in this thread?

Boredom, I suppose.

Edit: Actually, I'm really over-exaggerating. I liked ME, but it's just that Bioware fans somewhat irritate me when they talk about how great it's plot is.

 

[JediMB]

I mentioned earlier that I'm not really interested in the movie

That said, it would have been a pretty cool gimmick if they'd filmed two versions of it, with both male and female Shepards.

That said, though? It would have been better if Shepard had been left out of the movie entirely. It would be cool if someone like Garrus or Liara could be upgraded to main character for the movie instead.

 

[The_Waspman]

Could be worse. Uwe Boll could be the director.

 

[Frostbyte666]

Here's a better idea, maybe, forget about Shepard and Joker and do the movie involving the 1st contact war on Shanxi, start it with a brief intro to humans discovering mass effect tech on Mars, then have the war and finally have it culminate in humans being accepted onto the citadel.

 

[Maximum_Power_Cheese_Supreme]

Is it because he doesn't look the part?

Spoiler

Yeah, totally don't see any resemblance there.

His beard looks like a crumbed chicken fillet.

 

[JamesStone]

I still hope that this is a big trolling. No, not the fact that Seth Green won´t be Joker, but the fact that a Mass Effect movie will exist. Hollywood isn´t stupid. Directors aren´t stupid. But this is just a really, REALLY stupid move. Think about it, even if this is the best movie ever, most of the ME fanbase won´t see it, because it will ruin their ideia of Shepard, their story (that is, the decisions they made), and possibly their overall experience, and most people probably won´t see it also, because they´ll think that they need to play the games to understand the plot. Why does everyone keep doing the same mistakes over and over again. As MovieBob once said, you can make a good movie out of a videogame, just choose the right ones, and Mass Effect definitly isn´t the right choice.

 

[JamesStone]

Could be worse. Uwe Boll could be the director.

Or Michael Bay.

 

[JamesStone]

No female Shepard, I can understand. But no Seth Green? Why? What happened? Come on! Joker can't be anyone but Seth Green! Did he turn down the contract?

If that is true, he probably wouldn´t want to act in a complete piece of shit.

I really hope that´s the reason he won´t be Joker.

 

[Kurt Cristal]

I'm actually glad they're not using the same plot, it's too large to cram into a film.

 

[Evil Alpaca]

I think that having either female or male Shepard in a Mass Effect movie is a bad idea. What noticeable characteristics does Shepard have?

This is the problem with making a movie with a main character based on the blank template of character creation. Its a great game mechanic but one that does not adapt to movies. Shepard is whatever the player makes him/her out to be. The player decides whether Shepard will be a by-the-book cop or a loose cannon. The Shepard character has nothing really to base a character on for a movie except whatever the script writers decide. The movie won't be showing your commander Shepard from the game, it will be the writers Shepard.

 

[Jonny49]

Whether Shepard is male or female isn't important, what is important that the film makers get the character's personality (or lack of thereof) right. Gender shouldn't be a defining character trait, it should be part of their character sure, just not what makes them who they are.

And frankly, people didn't see this coming? Shepard is usually personified as a male on alot of the game's promotional material, trailers, posters, screen-shots. He's even a dude on the box-art. It's how a majority of people see the character, even Bioware from the looks of things.

Calling the film a failure based on the gender of the main character, when the game the film is based on allows you to CHOOSE what gender Shepard is, is pretty ridiculous. Would you dislike the game because you had to play as a male?