Henry Cavill has taken time out of his busy schedule shooting the second season of Netflix's The Witcher to tease a secret project involving the Mass Effect video game franchise.
An Instagram post shows Cavill sitting in a chair getting his wig situated to portray Geralt in The Witcher live-action series for Netflix. Cavill captioned his Instagram photo, "Secret project? Or just a handful of paper with random words on it.... Guess you'll have to wait and see. Happy hump day all. #HumpDay #Secrets" The actor is shown holding a piece of paper close to the camera, with its words blurred out so they can't be read. However, internet sleuths at Game Pressure have deduced the wording holds clues to Mass Effect.
Game Pressure used Focus Magic software to remove the blur from Cavill's photo, in order to better read his mysterious piece of paper. What was found in the text contains Mass Effect terms like "Cerberus", "Reaper", "Geth" and "Tali'Zorah." Another member of the site's editorial staff went a step further by discovering the page's text come from a Wikipedia entry for Mass Effect 3, which reads:
Following the events on Tuchanka and a failed coup by Cerberus to take over the Citadel, the quarians offer their support to the Alliance if Shepard helps them reclaim their homeworld, Rannoch, from the geth. Assisted by a quarian, either Tali'Zorah or Admiral Daro'Xen, Shepard boards a geth dreadnought and rescues a captive geth unit, either Legion or a facsimile occupied by a geth virtual intelligence (VI), then disables the Reaper control signal over the geth.
This has led to speculation that Cavill is possibly studying up on Mass Effect lore and history for a possible film or television project based on the popular video game series. Of course, the Superman actor is currently the star of another video game series, The Witcher, on Netflix.
BioWare is releasing Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, which will include all three video games in the trilogy along with DLC packs, all remastered and optimized for 4K Ultra HD. The remastered trilogy will be available in the spring for PlayStation 4, PC and Xbox One, with forward compatibility for next-gen consoles.
Source: Instagram, Game Pressure