Half-Life/Portal Movie In The Works

http://seattletimes.com/html/technologybrierdudleysblog/2020298685_valve_open_to_half-life_portal.html

Oh God, make this happen, please...

Oooooooooooooh that could actually be good.

Half-life is a difficult one concerning characters though. Freeman is famously a mute that the players project their own imagination into, so I can see that HF fans might feel that a film would compromise the character.

My friends are gonna go ballistic when they hear about this. In a good way, though. I myself haven't played either of them, as I have neither the time nor the proper console.

"the proper console"

You do mean a PC, right?

Shows how little I actually know about them. And I also said time.

Oh, yeah, I was just making sure you didn't think they were supposed to be played via console. That'd be an, err, unpopular opinion, to say the least.

Eh, I don't like playing games on the PC. I prefer actually having a controller.

That sounds an awful lot like a non sequitir to me. But please don't turn this thread into a PC-console war.

Was just commenting. You're the one who implied it was a problem.

*goes back to lurking*

Just hope that they don't make the Half Life movie the first in a trilogy, because we all know how that will work out.

J.J. Abrams is really going to be the KING OF NERDS, isn't he. Star Trek, Star Wars and now a partnership with Valve..

If it's anything like this, I'll be happy.

I'm not sure weather that would be a good, or bad place in society to have...

I guess it depends on how quickly J J can count to three.

edited 7th Feb '13 2:42:40 PM by Frogger5

Hearing Gordon/Chell speak would be... unsettling. That, and Portal would be pretty difficult to make into a film, since it consists of a single mute human (with brain damage) running around solving puzzles while a couple of A.I.'s snark at each other.

Google Escape from City 17. Best fan attempt at a Half-Life movie so far.

Which is why we're all hoping that instead of being direct adaptations of the games, the films will simply take place in the same universe. (The Portal movie, for example, could be about Cave's glory days. I'm personally hoping for a HL 1-based movie with a John Hammond-esque take on Breen.)

My feelings are conflicted. I'll just wait and see then.

Are you talking the novel or film version of John Hammond? Because Dr. Breen is considerably more of a Jerkass than Richard Attenborough.

I'm talking about the film version. Consider that we only see Breen in HL 2, about twenty years after the events of HL 1. I've always imagined HL 1-era Breen as a visionary who's secretly made contact with a powerful alien race (the Combine) and plans to establish a stronger line of communication and trade with them. The Combine lie (or, rather, I suppose, tell the truth misleadingly) to Breen to convince him that this is a good idea. He loses faith in the whole thing during the Black Mesa Incident, but then the Combine come along and tell him that that wasn't them, that was an enemy of theirs. Which is technically true. Of course, by this point, it's become clear that the Combine are even worse, but Breen is too deep in denial to realize that.

Also, holy shit, I didn't know Richard Attenborough played Hammond!

EDIT: And he's related to David Attenborough? Wow!

edited 7th Feb '13 6:38:10 PM by DAStudent

Personally... Well, I wouldn't mind Chell gaining a voice. And actually, having her silent could be just as awesome, if they choreographed and wrote it right. Heck, have her monologue at the end as she shuts down G La DOS about why she hasn't spoken the rest of the movie in reply to G La DOS' barbs, and you have an automatic Crowning Moment Of Awesome. /promptly stoned to death.

To me, a Half-Life and / or Portal game could only work as a comedy.

Like, call the movie "Aperture" or something, let it be about Cave Johnson trying to run Aperture Science and compete with the more competent Black Mesa. Have the head of Black Mesa be a true antagonist. Make it as hilarious as possible.

edited 7th Feb '13 11:52:13 PM by GaryCXJk

J.K Simmons needs to be back.

CHELL, I WANT PICTURES! PICTURES OF LEMONS!

And then in the third act it goes dark and tragic as Cave succumbs to moon rock poisoning and forces his ever-faithful secretary to become the template for a supercomputer.

And then in the final act, there's a huge party, with a Bring Your Daughter To Work Day.

Oh wait...

Dark comedy, of course. It would have to be. The games run off of pure, unadulterated dark comedy.

I mean . . . turrets shooting you to death while talking in cute voices ain't light, people!

Oh, and you can play with a controller on a computer. You just have to find one.

Well, Half-Life has more comic relief than actual dark comedy. Honestly, I think a Half-Life film should be done before Portal, since a lot of moviegoers aren't gamers, and thus won't know that Portal is a spinoff of Half-Life, and would get confused if the films are done in the wrong order.