Wait, I just read the PR and saw that it's an origin story?
Not that story matters at all in a game like this, but didn't the first game's story end in a "oh crap, we discovered the real badguy!!!--TO BE CONTINUED" way?
Considering it took them THIS long to get a greenlight to make another ME, and the likelihood that this will bomb too and they won't get a 3rd chance, wouldn't it make more sense to continue and conclude the story of ME1? Or are they just figuring that story sucked, so fuck it, let's just do a 1 shot origin tale instead?