News Mass Effect Amazon’s Mass Effect Adaptation Will Tell a New Story Set After the Original Trilogy Mass Effect will follow in the footsteps of Amazon’s Fallout adaptation by creating some distance from the games. By Molly Templeton | Published on November 7, 2025 Credit: BioWare Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: BioWare A year ago, Amazon MGM Studios announced yet another video game adaptation: Mass Effect. The popular games series follows a soldier in the 22nd century who battles aliens and machines; the game lends itself to articles like Polygon‘s “To all the Krogans I’ve killed before.” It is one of those alarming games where your choices determine the story. As an anxious person, I have not played it, but I am quite intrigued that some very brilliant writers have penned novels set in its universe. A few months ago, Amazon MGM Studios announced the adaptation would have as showrunner Doug Jung, known for writing Star Trek Beyond and The Cloverfield Paradox; he joined previously announced writer Daniel Casey, one of the people responsible for sending Dominic Toretto’s friends to space in F9: The Fast Saga. But nothing has been said about the series’ plot, timeframe, story, or … any details, really. Today, for N7 Day (a fan celebration named for protagonist Commander Shepard’s military rank), Mass Effect executive producer Mike Gamble announced a key detail on the BioWare blog: The writers room is going strong, and we’ve 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’s timeline, and will be set after the original trilogy. It won’t be a retread of Commander Shepard’s story – because after all … that’s YOUR story, isn’t it? This is a smart choice for an adaptation of a game series that relies on player choices; there’s no way to retell the games’ story without rejecting some of those choices. But stretching off into the future (as they did for the fourth game, Mass Effect: Andromeda) allows the writers and showrunner to work in the same sandbox without stepping on too many toes. (Some toes always get stepped on where adaptations are concerned.) According to IGN, “Back in August, Amazon was spotted as having listed a Q4 2026 production date for the series—meaning that it is still a year away from shooting.” So it’ll likely be a minute before many more details are revealed.[end-mark] The post Amazon’s <i>Mass Effect</i> Adaptation Will Tell a New Story Set After the Original Trilogy appeared first on Reactor.