Half-Life Movie? Only if Valve Trump Hollywood

Post by Steve Farrelly @ 11:20am 27/08/10 | 19 Comments

In more movie talk, according to PC Gamer, Valve's Gabe Newell has said that a Half-Life movie has always been in the pipeline, but ultimately, that Hollywood just didn't have a clue about what makes the property so good, so Valve might do it themselves.

"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."

If Valve are known for one thing, it's doing their own thing, and doing it well. I'd support them and see any movie they put out.

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demon
Posted 11:30am 27/8/10

pfft it's been done already... & done well!!

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Steve Farrelly
Posted 11:32am 27/8/10

ZOMG I forgot how freaking hilarious this is

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sLaps_Forehead
Posted 11:34am 27/8/10

fail.

All game movies are crap. (You know deep down it's true)

Half-Life was highly derivative of other well known sci-fi films. HL contained elements of:

Predator, Aliens, The X-Files, The Thing etc etc.

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Plasma
Posted 11:34am 27/8/10

They should talk to those guys that make those IRL HL2 short films, they are pretty cool.

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ctd
Posted 11:38am 27/8/10

They should make a steam movie. Michael Cera loses all his friends list and he tries to get it back.

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NoLogic
Posted 11:40am 27/8/10

They should make a steam movie. Michael Cera loses all his friends list and he tries to get it back.

using nothing but a golden wrench

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Tiny
Posted 02:57pm 27/8/10

Half Life does not have a good enough story for a movie. Would be a failure.

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m3nt4l
Posted 05:00pm 27/8/10

Yeah the story works for the game but I'm not sure it would work on screen, would rely too much on jumping headgrabs at the start and then near the end would be like every other game adaption. I would still go and watch it though.

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Enska
Posted 06:30pm 27/8/10

If the story fleshed out some of freemans background and the like I reckon it could be made to work.

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FraktuRe
Posted 07:07pm 27/8/10

I reckon they could pull it off, even more props if they pull it off without gordon speaking.

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Whoop
Posted 07:08pm 27/8/10

It'd pretty much just be doom but with crowbars instead of guns

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Dan
Posted 07:09pm 27/8/10

It would be awesome if the movie was mostly first person, with little to no dialogue from Gordon. Basically if it was a feature length version of this:

But yeah, whether they could keep it interesting enough to sit through 2 hours of that. Who knows.

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neffo
Posted 07:14pm 27/8/10

They'd ruin it by getting Marky Mark to play a scientist.

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ravn0s
Posted 07:50pm 27/8/10

would be pretty hard to translate half life into a movie. maybe they could do a movie about the seven hour war that took place between half life and half life 2

last edited by ravn0s at 19:50:32 27/Aug/10

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m3nt4l
Posted 12:28am 28/8/10

I think it might work better as a mini tv series like jekyll or sherlock maybe with the people that do eureka.

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Eorl
Posted 08:59am 28/8/10

That demo film is wicked.

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MPCE
Posted 09:29am 28/8/10

Maybe Valve should finish making Half-Life 2: Episode 3 before they start talking about movies its been way to long for it to be episodic content.

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m3nt4l
Posted 09:52am 28/8/10

yeah I was going to add that the only problem with a tv series would be we would get the first couple of eps then then the last episode wouldn't be seen for a couple of years

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yamahabandit
Posted 01:03pm 28/8/10

Check this out then: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1UPMEmCqZo

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