"The listings call for a male lead from ages 30 to 39, described as a young Colin Farrell; a female alien character that will require prosthetics; a 40 to 60-year-old male actor that can pull off a creature or character actor like Doug Jones; a male lead with a wrestler-type physicality; and a female aged 30 to 49 for a parallel story set on Earth while everyone else is up to intergalactic hijinx."
"Those descriptions are vague enough that they don't give us much sense of what the series will entail, but some of them sound similar enough to existing characters from the games that fans think the show might be a direct adaptation of the original 2007 release. I sure hope that's not the case, because it would be a huge mistake on a few fronts."
Amazon is developing a Mass Effect television series while BioWare continues work on Mass Effect 5. Leaked casting descriptions list five character types: a 30–39 male akin to a young Colin Farrell, a prosthetic-requiring female alien, a 40–60 male suited to creature/character work like Doug Jones, a wrestler-physique male lead, and a 30–49 female tied to a parallel Earth storyline. The descriptions are vague but echo elements of the 2007 game's roster, mapping easily to Commander Shepard, an asari similar to Liara T'Soni, and Saren Arterius, while the Earth-based character does not fit earlier entries. Fans interpret the parallels as possible signs of a direct adaptation, though the casting notes remain generic enough to allow other approaches, and concerns are voiced that recreating the original Shepard storyline would be a significant mistake.
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