Spool up the mass relays, the Normandy is soaring towards its first TV adaptation. The Mass Effect series has officially begun development at Amazon MGM Studios, with Fast & Furious writer Daniel Casey at the wheel.
First announced in 2021, the studio finally confirmed the start of development via Variety on Thursday, in time for N7 Day, an annual celebration of all things Mass Effect. This news comes despite a post by game developer Bioware on X/Twitter stating that this year’s celebrations would be lighter in the wake of Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s launch.
Casey, who wrote the screenplay for F9: The Fast Saga, is set to write and executive produce the series. Karim Zreik, hailing from the now-defunct Marvel Television unit, will also executive produce under Cedar Tree Productions along with Electronic Art’s Michael Gamble.
As the show’s plot details are being kept under wraps, it is unknown if the series would follow the events of the first three Mass Effect games, which revolved around protagonist Commander Shepard and the crew aboard the SSV Normandy, as they raced against time to protect humanity from the Reapers, a highly-advanced race of synthetic-organic aliens that arrive to purge the galaxy every fifty thousand years.
The first Mass Effect game was released in 2007 and subsequently formed a trilogy over 5 years with each title garnering rave reviews. The series received a refresh in 2017 in the form of Mass Effect Andromeda, a side-story set 600 years after the events of the originals, with a fifth game currently in the works, with Rolling Stone previously reporting that Bioware’s full attention has been set on developing the title following the launch of Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
With Amazon’s recent success with its Fallout TV adaptation earlier this year, which was swiftly picked up for a second season, let’s hope that the upcoming Mass Effect series does Shepard proud.
Kevin is a reformed PC Master Race gamer with a penchant for franchise “duds” like Darksiders III and Dead Space 3. He has made it his life-long mission to play every single major game release – lest his wallet dies trying.
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