After Dragon Age, Mass Effect is now getting a series. The project was officially confirmed on N7-Day.
Just in time for N7 Day on November 7, the confirmation came that some fans have been waiting for three years. Amazon is currently implementing a new series project and is drawing on the rich universe of Mass Effect.
So we will really be able to see on Prime Video in the near future how, after Fallout , one of the best role-playing game series of all time can be turned into a TV series. But in-depth information about what exactly we can expect in the series is still very scarce. So far, the only official information is that Amazon is working on such a series, as reported by Variety.
Rumors about this have been circulating since 2021, when Deadline reported on negotiations between Amazon and Electronic Arts regarding Mass Effect.
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The only solid information about the series so far concerns only the people in charge. It is still completely unclear what the series will be about and whether it will retell the story of Commander Shepard or instead tell a completely new story in the same universe.
Recently, however, Amazon has already celebrated success with Fallout and has taken the route of an independent story here – with tons of cross-references to the games, of course.
The Mass Effect series is produced and written by Daniel Casey Among Casey’s biggest projects to date is the script for Fast & Furious 9. The film was released in 2021 and, while it didn’t convince many critics, it was much better received by viewers according to Rotten Tomatoes.
Casey gained experience in the sci-fi genre as the screenwriter of the thriller Kin and through his work on 10 Cloverfield Lane. Karim Zreik, Ari Arad and Michael Gamble from Electronic Arts are also on board as producers. Arad has already supported two other video game adaptations with Borderlands and Uncharted, but both are of dubious quality.
There are hopes for Henry Cavill
It is not yet officially known who will appear in the series and whether it will be live action or, as with Dragon Age, an animated series. However, since Daniel Casey has no animation experience to date, we strongly assume a live-action adaptation.
This would fit with Henry Cavill, of all people, already hinting in 2021 that he could be involved.Nothing is confirmed here yet, but gaming fans in particular love to see the actor and recognized gaming fan in all kinds of nerdy adaptations.
Henry Cavill himself gave reason for the assumption three years ago when he shared a blurred script on Instagram that fans were quick to decode. It contained clear keywords such as
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It’s unlikely that this was a finished script, but it may have been an initial concept for which Henry Cavill was to be recruited. Amazon was already in negotiations with EA that same year.
On top of that, Henry Cavill seems to be in frequent discussions with Amazon He was eventually offered a role in Amazon’s Warhammer 40k movie and is part of the live-action adaptation of the sci-fi anime Voltron.
The Mass Effect series does not yet have a release date. So expect a few more years before we really see how Amazon imagines the Milky Way in 2148. It’s possible that the series and the new game will come out around the same time. BioWare is also known to be working on a successor to Mass Effect: Andromeda. However, very little information is known about this either.
