Mass Effect: Legendary Edition – Mac Walters on Scrapped Movie

Mac Walters, the project director on the recently-released Legendary Edition remaster of the Mass Effect trilogy, recently had a chat with the folks over at Business Insider that focused on the scrapped Mass Effect movie and the prospects of the franchise to at some point be adapted into a TV series.

Here’s a quick snippet:

And he’s speaking from experience. A “Mass Effect” movie was in the works in 2010 when Legendary Pictures landed the rights to a film adaptation, with Warner Bros. on board to release it. But it never materialized.

“It felt like we were always fighting the IP,” Walters said. “What story are we going to tell in 90 to 120 minutes? Are we going to do it justice?”

He added that after a change in Legendary leadership, the studio wanted to move more toward television, at which point the producers thought it would be best to start over.