BioWare’s Mass Effect TV series is back on, it seems. Variety reports that Amazon MGM Studios is producing a Mass Effect show, and that it is “officially in development” after years of no updates about it.
A project being “in development” doesn’t mean it will be made, only that it’s at some stage of development. The road from development to release can be long and bumpy. After all, the Mass Effect show was first revealed back in 2021, so it’s been in the works for a long time already.
The report said Daniel Casey (Fast & Furious 9) is writing and executive producing the show, while EA’s Michael Gamble is an executive producer as well.
There are no plot details available as of yet for the Mass Effect show, but the main series follows the spacefaring events of Commander Shepard. A movie version of Mass Effect was planned at one point, but it never got off the ground.
BioWare veteran Mac Walters, who has since left the company, said in 2021 that a Mass Effect TV show makes more sense than a film. “If you’re going to tell a story that’s as fleshed out as Mass Effect, TV is the way to do it. There’s a natural way it fits well with episodic content,” he explained.
If the Mass Effect TV series is indeed real and in the works at Amazon MGM Studios, it could appear on Prime Video, similar to the network’s Fallout series–this is not confirmed, however. Prime Video is also making a God of War TV show, but it’s starting over from scratch. Fallout Season 2 is in the works as well.
Today, November 7, is N7 Day in the Mass Effect lore. In previous years, BioWare and EA released teasers for the next Mass Effect game on N7 Day, but that’s not happening this year. The new Mass Effect game is in the works now and is BioWare’s main focus currently after the company released Dragon Age: The Veilguard in October.