Valve wants to make the Half-Life movie
Recently in a interview with PC Gamer, Valve’s CEO and co-founder Gabe Newell took some time to talk about the possibility of a Half-Life movie. Mr. Gabe Newell went on to say that the best people to make a movie about a game, would be the people that made that game. As a result, Valve immediately started thinking about how they would create this movie. The result is the ever amusing “Meet the Spy”.
During the interview with Gabe, came up with the whole history behind the Half-Life movie – seems they were approached by lots of trashy proposals for movies, and as a result Valve was left feeling that the only team that could do it some serious justice was Valve itself. Below is the full quote from Gabe:
“As a WoW player, I would much rather that the WoW team made the movie, right? Than anybody else. I like Sam Raimi, I’ve been a fan ever since Evil Dead came out, but I would rather see Blizzard making the movie. We think that customers are like, ‘OK, we’re kind of sick and tired of the way you guys are slicing and dicing the experience of being a fan of Harry Potter, or Half-Life, or The Incredibles, and you need to fix it.’ And the people that fix it will be rewarded, and the people that don’t will be on the rubbish heap of history, or whatever the phrase is.
“Where we got into this direction was after Half-Life 1 had shipped. 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.
“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.”
Via PC Gamer
