Hollywood, This is How You Make a Game-Based Movie
This is the way a game-based movie should be done.
Maybe instead of allowing Hollywood studios to take control of game-related IPs, chew them up, and spit them back out in big steaming piles of garbage, perhaps game publishers should turn to actual fans to make movies based on their popular titles. Take the recently-released Portal: No Escape as a good example: it may only be seven minutes long, but those seven minutes are way better than a few agonizing hours some unnamed game-based movies have forced us to endure.
Portal: No Escape stars Danielle Rayne as the female protagonist, and was made by Dan Trachtenberg, a 30-year-old commercial director and co-host of the pop-culture video podcast The Totally Rad Show. According to Trachtenberg, the filming was actually completed long before Portal 2 was even announced: around one and a half years ago. It took this long just to assemble a visual-effects team and finish post-production.
So far the unofficial Portal mini-movie has been viewed 921,646 times since it was uploaded to YouTube on Tuesday. Heck, even best-selling author William Gibson called it "brilliant."
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NICE vid.
That was awesome. I'm still waiting for a Zelda or Half-Life movie to come out.
fk awesome. Really did justice to Portal, needs a bigger movie, with the same actress.
cant tell what i want more, between more of this and the zelda trailer.
Very cool. That was way better than the Resident Evil crap that keeps coming out.
That was pretty awesome. Also, the video is accumulating views at a mind boggling pace. o.O
Valve can make good movies: Half-Life, Portal, Left4Dead and why not a 3d animated Team Fortress.
Still waiting for that Warcraft and Zelda movies
agreed. cool vid. make one 18 times longer?
Kick ass!!!!!
crazy skilz! that was great.
IMPRESSIVE! I'd sure pay to see a full length Portal film by these people and with that actress!
Starcraft 2 would be awesome replacement for Starwars. i kinda hate George lucas now. Seriously 6 episode only? if he dont feel like making it sell the rights to someone who will I want my starwars movies.
What I don't understand is why the game industry needs hollywood at all, why can't don't they just make a movie themselves, it's just a long ass cutscene.
Just higher a director, writer and a producer say here are some animators, sound guys, couple of engineers and say "don't suck"
Excellent film! Now if Uwe Boll could just work his magic on it...
> Take the recently-released Portal: No Escape as a good example: > it may only
> be seven minutes long, but those seven minutes are way better than a few
> agonizing hours some unnamed game-based movies have forced us to endure.
Could it be because it's a lot easier to fill 5:30 minutes with a non-descript, "ominous" setting and follow up with some whizbang effects, than it is to make a feature length film that ipso facto has to string viewers along with at least some semblance of a coherent plot?
Conversely, if you extended this to even 30-40 minutes at its current level of plot/character development, people would be far more apt to call it hackneyed and banal in a way that made a Judge Dredd vs. The Expendables cross-over appear profound and intellectually engaging, by comparison.
Valve could make millions off of a Half Life + Portal movie campaign. I would go see them even if they were halfway decent. Good stuff I can only dream of...
holy crap! That was epic! Loved the attention to detail on the flames. Need to tone down the blue on the barrel of the gun when in daylight. Other than that, perfect!
@captainnemojr
There is a fan made Zelda movie out there, it's ok but not up to the standard one would hope. Nintendo caught wind of it just as it was being released and shut it down about a week after it was released. You can still find it floating around on the net but I doubt it'd be easy to find as it was released a while ago
That was awesome. I'm still waiting for a Zelda or Half-Life movie to come out that doesn't suck.
fixed
Love the trailing effect on the portal gun muzzle.
The film was an unexpected surprise.
Great short film, but missing one thing... GLaDOS
Could it be because it's a lot easier to fill 5:30 minutes with a non-descript, "ominous" setting and follow up with some whizbang effects, than it is to make a feature length film that ipso facto has to string viewers along with at least some semblance of a coherent plot?Conversely, if you extended this to even 30-40 minutes at its current level of plot/character development, people would be far more apt to call it hackneyed and banal in a way that made a Judge Dredd vs. The Expendables cross-over appear profound and intellectually engaging, by comparison.
Excuse me. Could you get out of my head please? I was about to create a post just like yours until I read what you had typed. Thanks for saving me the trouble.
When one of these youtube videos are an hour and a half long with an actual story then i'll be interested.
Bryan Cranston as Gordon Freeman please!
That was awesome. I hope they can write a good story for a full movie though.
not very original...woman runs around opening ports....so much fun....NOT
That was great, I want to see more.
I Hope it's not gonna be like doom!!
I Hope i'ts not gonna be like doom... You want to play the game instead of watching the movie!
not very original...woman runs around opening ports....so much fun....NOT
You have never played portal...
Was a bit slow at the start but was a bit short. A full feature would be interesting, if they can work a proper plot in. (Portal 2 Storyline comes to mind.
great short movie, seen it before but still a great short movie.