{"id":250791,"date":"2025-11-08T07:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T07:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/250791\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T07:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T07:10:12","slug":"mass-effect-tv-series-set-after-the-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/250791\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Mass Effect&#8221; TV Series Set After The Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/mass-effect-tv-series-set-after-the-games.jpg\" data-caption=\"BioWare\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/mass-effect-tv-series-set-after-the-games.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mass-effect-tv-series-set-after-the-games\"\/><\/a>BioWare<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Amazon\u2019s long-gestating TV series based on BioWare\u2019s \u201cMass Effect\u201d video game franchise took a major step forward with \u201cMindhunter\u201d writer and \u201cChief of War\u201d executive producer Doug Jung boarding as showrunner.<\/p>\n<p>First released over a decade ago, the original \u201cMass Effect\u201d trilogy contains one of the most well-established, diverse and cinematic space opera screen universes outside of the \u201cStar Wars\u201d and \u201cStar Trek\u201d franchises.<\/p>\n<p>In the games, you play as Commander Shepherd, who must assemble a crew of various aliens and humans to take on the return of an ancient threat to all life in the galaxy in the 22nd century.<\/p>\n<p>That acclaimed trilogy of games was made, along with a not well-received \u2018sidequel\u2019 titled \u201cMass Effect Andromeda,\u201d which takes place in another galaxy.  A fifth title in the series is currently in development.<\/p>\n<p>In a new update tied to Mass Effect Day on November 7th (N7), the franchise\u2019s executive producer at BioWare posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bioware.com\/2025\/11\/07\/n7-day-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blog entry<\/a> in which the TV series is mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>He reveals they\u2019ve been \u201cpartnering closely with Amazon on it\u201d and then explains its place in the franchise\u2019s canon:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe writers\u2019 room is going strong, and we\u2019ve got a lot figured out about how it fits within the Mass Effect canon, and where it sits in respect to the new game. The show will explore a brand-new story within the universe\u2019s timeline and will be set after the original trilogy. It won\u2019t be a retread of Commander Shepard\u2019s story \u2013 because after all \u2026 that\u2019s YOUR story, isn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dan Casey, who has already spent a year writing on the project, is also on board the show along with executive producers Michael Gamble, Karim Zreik, Ari Arad and Emmy Yu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BioWare Earlier this year, Amazon\u2019s long-gestating TV series based on BioWare\u2019s \u201cMass Effect\u201d video game franchise took a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[94966,59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-250791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-bigslider","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}