Report: Mass Effect movie rights obtained by Legendary Pictures
by Justin McElroy 
on May 25th 2010 12:45PM
We're wary of video game-derived movies, which is a pretty fair stance for a genre that has
Mortal Kombat sitting unchallenged atop its pinnacle, but the effort to bring
Mass Effect to the big screen sounds legitimate enough to pique our interest.
THR reports that the film rights have been picked up by Legendary Pictures (the studio behind
300,
The Watchmen,
The Dark Knight and the still-in-development
Gears of War). BioWare's Ray Muzyka, Greg Zeschuk and Casey Hudson will reportedly be brought on as executive producers. Mark Protosevich, the writer behind
I Am Legend and the upcoming
Thor, is in talks to pen the adaptation.
The question, of course, is who will play the game's lead, Justin Shepard, the brave space adventurer that bears a striking resemblance to a slightly handsomer, moderately more chiseled version of Joystiq's Justin McElroy. The author of this post thinks the
choice is clear.
[Via
Slashfilm]
