Valve, J.J. Abrams Want to Collaborate on Movies, Games

I assume someone's already done this, but just in case they haven't...

A portal movie would be the most boring piece of crap, but the story of half life would be perfect for a trashy sci-fi movie.

@VaultDweller13 said:

I'll believe stuff when I'm sitting in a theater watching it. Until then I have no interest.

Hold on, so you'd buy a ticket for a film you didn't believe existed? What is that bit before the film starts going to be like, when the trailers are on? You are going to have no idea why you are there, why you bought a ticket for a film you don't believe in and in which until the film starts you have no interest? That's a crazy future man.

Left 4 Dead was someone elses world/idea. Portal was someone elses world/idea. DOTA 2 was....

My point being is Half Life 3 is launching on all the next gen consoles in Nov 2013.

Considering other recent announcements, along with his ongoing projects, Abrams is certainly putting a lot on his plate if this turns out to be a full blown collaboration. I just hope that isn't going to spread himself to thin. He's a very talents guy, but I would have thought that focusing on Star Trek and Star Wars would be more than enough for most people.

Oh for crying out loud! I thought the people at Valve had class

@Pixel_Kaiser said:

Dig deeper into Gabe Newell.

Something new Half-Life related and Valve is directly involved. That is enough for me, I am on board.

Anyone here remember the promotional Super 8 level in the PC version of Portal 2?

EDIT: Apparently no one needs to, just noticed the last line in the article.

@InfamousBIG said:

Straight to DVD choose your own adventure in the style of Thayer's Quest.

This is Half Life 2: Episode 3, gentlemen.

Just call it Half-Life 3, dont call is Half Life 2: ep 3.

As exciting as this sounds, I'm worried. I'm all for video game movie adpatations, but before making some on huge franchises, there needs to be some smaller successful ones first. With how the video game movie track record is, making movies of huge franchises will worry me that they won't be done correctly.

the only thing i can see is JJ giving us the finger in the main photo that Patrick posted

I'm now convinced that Abrams has finally cloned himself in an attempt to monopolize everything I hold dear.

So Abrams is consolidating his power over nerds. He already controls SW / ST and half of television. Why not give him direction on HL3? At some point that dude is going to be overloaded and spread thin.

@JimmyPancakes said:

@VaultDweller13 said:

I'll believe stuff when I'm sitting in a theater watching it. Until then I have no interest.

Hold on, so you'd buy a ticket for a film you didn't believe existed? What is that bit before the film starts going to be like, when the trailers are on? You are going to have no idea why you are there, why you bought a ticket for a film you don't believe in and in which until the film starts you have no interest? That's a crazy future man.

Who watches the trailers? I already know what movies are coming out, and I definitely don't want them spoiled for me.

And yea, the future's messed up, man. It's also not worth getting hyped/complaining about speculation and postulation until there's a finished product.

Given how busy J.J. Abrams would be between his own projects, Star Trek and Star Wars I just do not see him being involved in a Valve movie production on a deep level. I think at best you might see Bad Robot Productions involved and thus J.J. Abrams would be in the credits and might have a few meetings, but he won't be on set if anything happens.

I'm sure both Gabe and J.J. see the value in stroking each other on stage, but I just don't see how anyone can see a Half-Life game or Portal property doing well. Outside of core gamers those names are meaningless. John Q Public doesn't know what Half-Life or Portal are at all.

J.J. Abrams might know those games, but he must know that it would be an up-hill battle to bring those to a movie screen in their current state. Half-Life 3 would have to come out and sell 20 million units worldwide for Half-Life to come into the public consciousnesses...and much of that would be manufactured hype pushing of the name. It would be an expensive media blitz that was puppeted from behind the scenes.

Please no. JJ, leave games alone.

Guy seems to already have his plate full. He should probably focus on making the new Star Wars movie at least respectable.

Based on that picture Abrams has a film adaptation of Deadly Premonition on his mind.

well all i know is if they ever make a half life movie and Bryan Cranston isn't Gordon Freeman, I will already be dissapointed.

Not going to happen... Will come to nothing.

Halflife 3, coming to a cinema near you!

@Marz said:

well all i know is if they ever make a half life movie and Bryan Cranston isn't Gordon Freeman, I will already be dissapointed.

Freeman is supposed to be around 27 years old.

As regards this Abrams/Valve team up...I'm not seeing much ever happening out of it. I get the impression Gabe Newell doesn't really know what to do with all his steam money and is rather half heartedly looking for opportunities to diversify given Steams vulnerability (steam box looks unconvincing as a console competitor in truth) and Abrams is already spreading his modest talent way too thin by taking on Star Wars on top of Star trek. The whole reason Lost turned into a nonsensical mess was largely in part to the fact that Abrams started the ball rolling in season one and then just left Lindelof & Cuse to figure out what happens next, whilst he just picked up a regular exec producer cheque and got into movies. Appealing as 'the mystery box' idea might be to a writer, it's pretty unsatisfying to the viewer/reader if over used ad infinitum. Abrams commitment to anything Valve is always going to come behind Wars & Trek.

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