JJ Abrams and Valve want to make a game and a

[BullworthAcademy]

http://www.polygon.com/2013/2/6/3960102/ha...jj-abrams-valve

 

 

Valve and director J.J. Abrams want to make a video game together and perhaps a film based on Portal or Half-Life, Abrams announced with Valve co-founder and managing director Gabe Newell during their storytelling discussion at the 2013 DICE Summit today.

 

"There's an idea we have for a game that we'd like to work with Valve on," said Abrams. Newell added, "We're super excited about that and we also want to talk about making movies, either a Portal movie or a Half-Life movie."

 

For most of their 25-minute talk, Abrams and Newell rolled clips of each other's work — Valve games such as Half-Life 2 and Abrams films like Cloverfield — as well as other films, including Die Hard. They focused on similarities and differences between the ways in which films and games tell stories, as well as the successes and failings of both forms in doing so.

 

"I love the experience of playing your games," Abrams told Newell. The Valve co-founder mentioned a scene from Cloverfield in which a woman explodes, and called it "one of my favorite moments in any of your movies."

 

At the end of the talk, Newell revealed that the DICE lecture was a public rehash of discussions that he and Abrams already had.

 

"What we are actually doing here, we are recapitulating a series of conversations going on," said Newell. "We reached the point that we decided to do more than talk."

[Mr Rabbit]

their talk was about as long as the game portal.

 

it will be half life I think not portal.

anyway this would fall under the category of something I must see

 

JJ Abrams seems to be busy

[Creed Bratton]

No. No. No.

 

I mean, I don't care if they do it, but I'm not gonna watch it. What is this obsession with Abrams, anyway?

[Creed Bratton]

 

No. No. No.

 

I mean, I don't care if they do it, but I'm not gonna watch it. What is this obsession with Abrams, anyway?

New Steven Spielberg basically. Has directed a number of cool sci-fi films and has rebooted Star Trek and now Star Wars which will be a smash-hit when it releases; as well as Star Trek dominating at the box office.

 

As far as this concept; sounds interesting -- if Gabe's on-board and likes what he sees then I have my absolute faith that the film will be spectacular.

His Star Trek was a fun movie. Kinda missed the point of what Star Trek is about, but still fun and I liked it. I didn't love it. I wouldn't call Abrams the new Spielberg though. They gave the guy Star Trek and the best he could come up with was a reboot with the same characters only in an alternate timeline. I said it before, he's a creative guy, but he lacks the vision of truly great directors like Spielberg.

I think he can make a decent Star Wars movie, but I also think a lot of other directors would do a better job than he will. One of them being Joss Whedon.

[BullworthAcademy]

 

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0009190/

 

I was surprised at the amount of stuff he's done, he's done work on Mission Impossible, Armageddon and Cloverfield.

Don't forget the best of all, LOST!

[Chukkles]

Wow man, his name is Jeffery Jacob.

Oh well still a pretty cool guy.

[El Dildo]

I would love to play Portal 3.

but Portal doesn't need to be made into a full-length movie. maybe a Pixar short...

 

now HL on the other hand; I would love to play Half-Life 3 soon. it's time to follow up what happened at the end of HL2ep2.

and Half-Life could definitely be made into a great film. I would be totally in favor of a blockbuster Hollywood based on the Half-Life universe.