EA And Sci Fi: Make A Mass Effect Movie Or A TV Series Petition
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Usually when a company has rights to a movie and nothing has happened for this amount of time it's not going to, especially since series popularity dipped after Andromeda.
I agree. It's been in development hell far too long.
I would personally prefer a TV series to a movie, though, but I think TV needs to evolve further so that it's feasible to do Mass Effect on a TV budget. In any case, I think it should be a tie-in, not a straight adaptation of the games.
- An animated series, be it hand drawn or CG would probably be the best bet. Even successful scifi shows get cancelled due to fx budgets being too high.
@AeromusPrime22 wrote:
... Even successful scifi shows get cancelled due to fx budgets being too high.Maybe, but I think that's rarely the case. The producers factor in those costs from the start.
We've had a number of long-running sci-fi TV successes:
Battlestar Galactica (redux) - 4 seasons, 75 episodes
Babylon 5 - 5 seasons, 110 episodes
ST TNG - 7 seasons, 178 episodes
ST DSN - 7 seasons, 178 episodes
Westworld (3 seasons, 20 episodes, still in production)And look at Dr. Who; a show with excellent writing and a (large) devoted fan base can succeed despite using some pretty cheap (and cheesy) FX!
- Well there are different factors, but Farscspe and The Expanse where both killed because SyFy didnt want to pay. You can calculate costs but if shows get popular actors and what not will want more money.
Star Trek really isnt a good example as its got such a strong fanbase, it csn pretty nuch succeed with anything. B5, well its amazing what Straczynski was able to do with his budget and season 5 happened by the skin of its teeth.
