Amazon MGM Studios announced a launch. Mass Effect The TV show is in development. Per DiversityThis series will adapt BioWare’s best-selling space opera video game series; In this series, players take control of a charismatic, take-charge star captain who recruits a group of oddballs to fight crime, stop intergalactic threats, and deliver a new world to them. A wide variety of faces/holes for kissing.

But we are children Mass Effectdespite these games To do There’s a lot more tongue-in-cheek wrangling with the aliens than might be prudent, given how apocalyptic their machinations eventually become. The franchise is already one of the biggest in gaming; with a beloved trilogy, a less beloved sequel, and a slew of novels and other expanded universe stuff under the nifty space belt. Now the series is being adapted for television with Daniel Casey, who previously wrote what we must legally call this movie. F9: Quick EpicHe serves as writer and executive producer.

And you may find yourself thinking: “Didn’t Amazon do this? already tell me you’re working on it Mass Effect show?” And yes, indeed: The mega-giant first scrapped the idea in 2021, along with periodic efforts to turn the game franchise into a movie. But it’s back before video game adaptations managed to win both Emmy awards And great ratings are coming in, so there’s probably a little more life in these efforts now.

When viewed from the outside, we cannot help but mention this. Mass EffectAlthough our initiative and expertise make us the only people who can save the universe, this movie, set in a universe where humanity is the junior partner of a sort of space UN, may be in danger of falling into what we think are the only people who can save the universe. The Last of Us problem. That is, it’s a game where much of the appeal consists of taking tropes and story ideas from the TV and movie genre and adapting them into a playable story; now the same space opera ideas are being translated back The question of what is original on TV is an open one. (That being said, what do we know? The Last of Us Although TV has dozens of zombie series that have become hits, so perhaps people are just getting ready for some new-old space adventures.)