JJ Abrams is starting to exude his own nerd gravity, and that will only grow once Star Wars fuels his giant geek filmmaking miasma. Thus it is no surprise that the Bad Robot logo is going to start showing up in front of more film adaptations of things you love, with the latest possibilities being the beloved Valve games, Portal and Half Life.
There’s nothing truly official yet, just a public promise from Abrams and Valve-head Gabe Newell at a technology summit presentation today. The two discussed the narrative advantages and disadvantages of video games before Newell stated outright, “we’re going to figure out if we can make a Portal movie or Half-Life movie together.”
Hands were shook and blogs written, but that’s all the details we have. It’s HIGHLY unlikely Abrams will direct either one of these properties, as he’s exceptionally busy for pretty much forever. His bastion of associated directors is only growing though, so who knows who could land such a job. The director of the Portal fan film that made such a ruckus will be busy on Y: The Last Man, so BR will have to look elsewhere on that one. Not a bad thing though: the guy didn’t really capture much beyond surface details of that franchise. Hopefully they’ll nab filmmakers that can find a fun story to tell in the Aperture Science universe, equipped with all the wry, sardonic humor that implies.
Source | Wired
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A Portal movie not directed by Michel Gondry is a Portal movie I won’t care about. Also, Half-Life sucks.
Man, how boring would a Half-Life movie be. Here’s a nerd who is great with guns and never talks. He’s your main character!
Unless they do some sort of side story not involving Gordon.
Actually, there’s a web short called “Enter the Freeman” that’s freaking great. The creators are going to do a web series called “The Freeman Chronicles.” So a good Half-Life adaptation is possible. I featured it on my radio show: http://deflipside.com/?p=5074
The short is embedded half way down, and info about the upcoming series is on the sidebar. Seriously good, and I never even knew what Half-Life was before seeing the short.
You do know Pintel, that the movie doesnt have to be a completely identical to game play. You can have dialogue and not a fixed camera angle. I think you can get some truly nightmarish visuals and storytelling from Half-life, hell after that abortion of a movie called ‘Doom’ we deserve it.
I personally would love to hear Gordon Freeman speak. I play both Half-Life games at least once a year (including Black Mesa Source now), and I’d love to watch the slow inexorable evolution from Gordon Freeman scientist to Gordon Freeman badass. It’d almost be like watching Steven Yeun’s character Glenn on The Walking Dead go from cowering and hiding from the undead to beating a zombie into pulp with a chair that he’d just ripped apart with his bare hands.
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