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Valve wil zelf Half Life film maken

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Dat er misschien een Red Dead Redemption film komt, is niet het enigste stukje film nieuws van vandaag. In een interview met Gabe Newell, oprichter van Valve, is een Half Life film ter sprake gekomen en hij had er het volgende over te zeggen;

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.

Als developer van een succesvolle game, krijg je natuurlijk ook waardeloze verfilmingen aangeboden. En daar zit Valve niet op te wachten, mocht er een Half Life film komen dan doet men dat zelf. Bij Valve is al ervaring opgedaan en genoeg geëxperimenteerd tijdens het maken van de Team Fortress 2 Meet the videos.