You think BioWare's content with just games, books, action figures, and comics for its epic space opera Mass Effect? You're greatly mistaken. According to the Mass Effect 2 project director Casey Hudson, there's "a tremendous amount of interest" in the idea of a Mass Effect film.

"Obviously we have a tremendous amount of interest from people in Hollywood to make a major motion picture," Hudson told MTV Movies Blog.

Fortunately, Hudson isn't just looking for any old movie tie-in. He's aware of the crappy films that are made to complement games and vice versa. He wants it to be a "great" film, otherwise it shouldn't be made at all.

"The most important thing for us is we don't just want to see a movie get made," he continued. "We want to see a great movie get made, if it's going to get made at all."

District 9 was a pretty big box office hit. When asked about expanding the IP into other forms of entertainment, director Neill Blomkamp gave an interesting response.

"I play a lot of video games," Blomkamp told the LA Times. "The idea of District 9 as a video game stresses me out a little bit because games based on movies rarely work. And movies based on games don't work -- I don't know what's up with that."

Regardless of this notion, the director doesn't completely dismiss the idea of a game based on the film. "District 9 as a game would be fascinating. And I don't want to see it happen for any sort of corporate reason or profit thing," he explained. "I used to be involved in computer graphics and I love virtual environments. That's why I like video games, really. And I think a virtual environment of the slums of Soweto is an appealing idea to me. The weapons are cool, too. I photographed the film in a way that isn't that different than video-game perspective in some parts. So a game would be interesting to me. There's nothing happening with it though."

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