“Mass Effect” Goes Big Screen WIth Legendary

The Hollywood Reporter announced taht Legendary Pictures picked up rights to “Mass Effect,” the Electronic Arts-BioWare video game. Mark Protosevich, the scribe who wrote “I Am Legend” and worked on “Thor,” is in negotiations to pen the movie, which will be produced by Avi and Ari Arad as well as Legendary’s Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni.

“Mass Effect,” which debuted in 2008, is an epic sci-fi action game set in the year 2183, focusing on a human soldier and his starship, the SSV Normandy. The galaxy-spanning story involves a long-extinct race of aliens, dormant beacons and an amazing number of alien species.

The movie extends the franchise, which has already appeared in video games, comics, books, and action figures.