Mass Effect won’t suffer the same fate as other video game movies, said the screenwriter assigned to the project, because it draws on far more than the “seductive” visuals and active sequences that all video games are known for, whether or not they are accompanied by a story with any depth.
Legendary Pictures, the studio responsible for The Dark Knight, 300 and Watchmen, is getting into the video game production business, with a new internal digital development arm headed by former Electronic Arts exec Kathy Vrabeck.
According to Variety, film studio Legendary Pictures are in talks to buy Gears of War creators Epic Games. Serious talks. The pair have been working together for over a year now on the upcoming Gears of War film adaptation, meaning at least one of them is impressed with what they’ve seen so far. Movie studios buying their way into the games business is of course nothing new, but buying a studio on the scale of Epic – which besides its work on Gears of War and Unreal Tournament also dominates the business with their Unreal Engine – certainly is.