Valve Wants to Make Half-Life Movie Themselves
Now I sort of want to see a Team Fortress comedy instead.
Like many great successful fictional properties, be they novels, comic books or video games, Hollywood comes knocking looking to cash in on the story.
There's nothing wrong with that, as the films have given us wonderful depictions of comic books and even amusement park rides, but Valve isn't keen on having any outside help on making the Half-Life movie.
While the set up of Black Mesa and City 17 seem perfect for a sci-fi movie, Valve's Gabe Newell feels that nobody in Hollywood would be able to make the Half-Life movie that the developer would want to see.
In an interview with PC Gamer, Newell related a time after the release of the first Half-Life: "There was a whole bunch of meetings with people from Hollywood. Directors down there wanted to make a Half-Life movie and stuff, so they’d bring in a writer or some talent agency would bring in writers, and they would pitch us on their story. And their stories were just so bad. I mean, brutally, the worst. Not understanding what made the game a good game, or what made the property an interesting thing for people to be a fan of."
Newell made it clear that it's not a talent problem, as he admits to being a World of Warcraft player, but not one that is excited to see what Sam Raimi does with the movie.
"That’s when we started saying ‘Wow, the best thing we could ever do is to just not do this as a movie, or we’d have to make it ourselves.’ And I was like, ‘Make it ourselves? Well that’s impossible.’ But the Team Fortress 2 thing, the Meet The Team shorts, is us trying to explore that."
How would you feel about a Half-Life movie done like the Team Fortress 2 series?
- MSFT Sorry for Having Bikini Girls at Conference
- Catalyst 10.8 Brings SC2 AA; Hints at Future GPUs
- Spy's USB Drive Caused Worst US Military Breach
- Commodore C64 Returns With Atom, Ion 2
- Man Gets Drunk, Shoots Company Server With .45
- Apple Manager Stashed $150,000 in Shoeboxes
- This Android Tablet Doesn't Need Glasses for 3D
- Crysis 2 $150 Nano Edition Detailed in Video
- Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9, Dissected
- Gigabyte's VGA Cooling Resembles Car Radiator
- Best Configs Return, Powered By Tom's Hardware Forums
- Intel Buys Infineon's Wireless for $1.4 Billion Cash
- AMD to Ditch the ATI Brand for Radeon Graphics
- Microsoft: Something Big Coming for PC Gamers
- Leak Reveals Toshiba Tegra 2, Android 2.2 Tablet
- MSFT Founder Sues Google, Apple, eBay, YouTube
- First StarCraft 2 Patch Detailed, Hitting September
- Hackers Often Accidentally Send Code to Microsoft
I would love to see a TF movie. Would be awesome.
But I can live with the HalfLife too ir it's made by valve.
I would love a Half-Life movie though not sure how it would do seeing mostly gamers will connect the name with the depth of the story and not the average person who goes to the movies on a weekly basis.
No no no! We see enough animation from Valve already. I want to see a real movie from them. A Half-Life movie with someone like Clive Owen would be amazing. The game has a good story line and it would make a great movie.
i have all the TF2 movies saved on my machine. i think they are brilliant and very well done. the writing/scripts are well thought out and the little details they put into them make them that much better. things like the intel room passcode being 1-1-1-1, and its the only dirty button on the pad, or the sniper smile right before he fires his gun, or the noise the chair makes when the HWG moves it.
that said im not sure about a HL2 movie, but valve has showed they have a good writing staff and their animation is pretty good, so im sure they could pull it off, the question is, should they?
As long as they're willing to make it 6 hours per major instalment and 2 hours for every episode. No 90 minute crap. Half Life trilogy, Half Life 2 trilogy, HL2:EP1 single, HL2:EP2 another single movie.
I would pay $20 for every disc. $200 to get them all on Bluray in a collectors edition.
There are too many great novels and the such that became movies hat weren't worth watching.It's not about $100,000,000 budgets, it's about taking your time, getting the appropriate director and actors (not just the most popular, like Tom Cruise and Michael Bay), and staying true to the original script (too many liberties are taken sometimes in the transition, liberties that can ruin it for the die hard fan).
The concept of a Half-Life movie makes me a bit nervous since most video game movies are hideously bad. Although if Valve made it themselves it could be pretty good. Just keep Uwe Boll the hell away from it!!!
wonder if a half life movie would be delayed so it could be released on ps3 too.
i want portal2 now!
IMO if its going to be rendered with the source engine, even if it's cg, it would feel to similar to the half life games themselves to not feel redundent. It would have to have a seperate story. That would be exellent. GlaDos cameo anyone?
More like give it to HBO and let them make a TV show out of it. That I'd watch.
agree with travis beane!
Well, I think that's awesome that they decided not to let Hollywood change so many things up (I don't know what you'd call it - "Hollywoodize"?) like it has with so many comicbook, novel, and videogame stories like X-Men, and things of that nature.
I mean, don't get me wrong, there are movies that do end up being good, but for hardcore fans of something, it's not always liked because the story has been changed up so much up for the mainstream and not you, the original audience.
NOT BAD THO IT INTERESTING TO SEE THIS KINDA STORY LINE KINDA LIKE BAD COMPANY
I'd love to see a movie, but it would have to be real, not animated. The only thing is they have to tailor to the likes of all sorts of gamers, who have their own views on each character. I think it'll end up being a split, with only some gamers really appreciating it, especially if they deviate from the story line much.
Now thats, how its done. Don't get some hairbrained hollywodd guy who've never played the game or loved it to make the movie. Make it yourselve valve. Whatever you come up with it will be miles better than what hollywood can dish up with. Lately they seem to make movies in a template... dished with slightly different colors.
You've got the heart for it and thats what counts.
A Half-Life movie is unnecessary
I'd enjoy that, the few videos they did make were entertaining and well done! Animated would be best though, You can add so much more in animations because you're not restricted when it comes to "Action" sequences by the inability of a real human. Mind you, they better start thinking of releasing "Meet the Medic" before releasing a movie.
how about something like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJPb1Xw0K_Q
i would love the Team fortress 2 movies especially exactly like these trailers i loved them Funny and the voices were on par so Valve make a Team Fortress 2 movie instead if they made it and it cost 10+ bucks to go see id pay in a heart beat for that kind of quality
An entire movie where the main character doesn't say a word?
Make the movie or not, for God's sake tell us something about the next half-life game. It has already been 3 years now for crying out loud!
A Half Life movie would have to be a live action film, not an animation. Not enough people would take a cartoon seriously.
the problem I see with a halflife movie is that you are gordon freeman. you are a silent protagonist who never really says anything. I'm not syaing its impossible to do, butit'd be hard, i mean the only movie i can think of that has pulled off anything similar would be kurt russell in soldier where he might say 30 words but he was a trained soldier vs gordon freeman who was just a scientist who happens to be in a situation calling him (you) to overcome the situation
as a movie tough while i see it possible to make a good movie with the story there isn't a was to make it true to the game since you wouldn't be in it yourself.
A cartoon halflife movie would b a bit disappointing. As a long time fan of the halflife series what I want is a full blown action movie. As for team fortress, a cartoon comedy would be great!
unless they get someone like JJ Abrams, valve should stick to making games. speaking of which, where the f**k is episode 3?
the problem I see with a halflife movie is that you are gordon freeman. you are a silent protagonist who never really says anything. I'm not syaing its impossible to do, butit'd be hard, i mean the only movie i can think of that has pulled off anything similar would be kurt russell in soldier where he might say 30 words but he was a trained soldier vs gordon freeman who was just a scientist who happens to be in a situation calling him (you) to overcome the situation as a movie tough while i see it possible to make a good movie with the story there isn't a was to make it true to the game since you wouldn't be in it yourself.
i seriously doubt they would try to make the half-life movie a literal remake of the game where the lead character doesn't say a word.
"Boom! Headshot!" Meet the Sniper homage to FPS Doug?
I really like Valve's attitude towards this. They basically say that they are for a Half-Life movie, which would totally rock my world, but they won't accept Hollywood crap in it, which just really tops it off!
With the pretty nifty fan-based movie we've all seen, we know what that movie could looks and feels like.
Why does everyone assume valve would be able to make a good movie? Afaik, they've never made a movie before. Last I heard, there is a bit of skill involved there.
Am I the only one who is freaked out by that black dude with a valve on his head? That things been giving me nightmares since HL1.
Spies get all the girls, I guess it is a matter of being good in infiltrations