Beyond, will serve as showrunner for the series based on the best-selling game franchise. Mass Effect. Image: EA Last November, we reported on news that was mostly surprising in so far as we honestly didn’t think it’d take this long: Video game franchise Mass Effect was getting a TV show,

Amazon's Mass Effect TV show is moving forward with Doug Jung as showrunner.

Deadline reports that Amazon MGM Studios, which has been working on developing a "Mass Effect" series since 2021, has hired "Star Trek Beyond" writer Doug Jung as showrunner of the project. Read More: Everything We Know About Netflix's Season 4 of 'Ginny & Georgia' Jung's other credits include "The Cloverfield Paradox" and more recently the Jason Momoa-led Apple TV+ series "Chief of War".