r/masseffect • u/jazz4717 • Jun 22 '25

NEWS Tv Series

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I guess they are going with the game script

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u/Brainwave1010 Jun 23 '25

Halo is definitely the most difficult one to do it with because it's really hard to get the majority of people to care about Halo without Master Chief, Reach and ODST only worked because the franchise had an established fanbase at that point, trying to market a Halo show however not featuring Master Chief to general audiences was probably seen as financial suicide.

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u/thedicestoppedrollin Jun 23 '25

The Fall of Reach could have been great on screen and still use a story a lot of fans aren't familiar with

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u/ADarkElf Jun 23 '25

I know this is just a sign that I played Halo at a very specific time, but I find it crazy that Reach's story hasn't been experienced by so many people. "Objective: Survive" still hits like a truck. Would be interesting to see how/if they could adapt that for TV.

Here's to hoping it gets a successful remaster/remake one day, lots of great memories from the campaign and messing around in Forge mode.

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u/thedicestoppedrollin Jun 23 '25

That’s a great mission, but I was actually referring to the book, not the game. I think they’re both canon, and the book is more about John’s origins. It starts with his abduction and ends with the Pillar of Autumn discovering the first Halo ring

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '25

Reach was the most cinematic Halo game they ever made, so it would probably be the easiest thing to port into an actual show/movie format. Can't imagine why they didn't.

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u/Fragrant-Potential87 Jun 23 '25

They already made a Master Chief origins story movie and another live action project with him. Literally all they had to do was give us a show about the stuff MC does in between the games

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u/BreesusTakeTheWheel Jun 23 '25

Ngl though I would love to see essentially the entire CE game filmed in live action. Been wanting that since I was a kid. Maybe change up how some of the scenes are filmed but keep the plot the same.

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u/Hungry-Dinosaur121 Jun 23 '25

The flood would look terrifying if they did that well. I wish they did that instead of the series we got.

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u/FrankDePlank Jun 23 '25

I mean the same goes for ME, it is not really mass effect without shepard.

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u/DolphinBall Jun 23 '25

As shown with Andromeda

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u/Twisp56 Alliance Jun 23 '25

Andromeda failed because it's a bad game, not because there's no Shepard.

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u/The_8th_Degree Jun 23 '25

I havent seen the actual show, but I saw a random clip before and the animation looked pretty cool at least.

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u/Brainwave1010 Jun 23 '25

Master Chief is without his helmet for 80% of the series and does the sex on a human Covenant woman while Cortana watches.

No I'm not joking.

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u/Siserith Jun 23 '25

Not really hard, unless your a hollywood hack, apparently. there's a whole lot of books and expanded content that would be perfect for tv/film adaption, do it chronological starting with contact harvest and parts of fall of reach's spartan training and such, hell it's even lower budget starting it this way with less cgi, aliens, and action, much if it can be shot on locations without a set. There might need to be a small amount of fluffing up/expanding scenes/conversations and subplots to have enough content for the medium, but the story, details, structure, subplots, and characters are all already there.