J.J. Abrams: Portal, Half-Life Movies Still Happening

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Let’s get right to it: Will Gordon Freeman be gay?

“…we've got writers, and we're working on both those stories. But nothing that would be an exciting update." Movies based on the pair of games were first hinted at during DICE 2013. At that time, Abrams and Gabe Newell expressed the desire to partner up to create games and films. The most notable being movies based on Portal and Half-Life.
 
I always figure Gordon Freeman was as gay as you liked him to be. It's not like he has any personality, he's exactly who you want him to be.

P.S. I hope they never make a Half-Life movie.
 
Quix said:
I always figure Gordon Freeman was as gay as you liked him to be. It's not like he has any personality, he's exactly who you want him to be.

P.S. I hope they never make a Half-Life movie.
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Aye....If you want homo you got homo. Personally, I got a protagonist that would bone Alyx in a heartbeat with a bionic boner. Yup. HL3 confirmed.
 
He might be gay, I have seen no indication one way or the other. Alyx appears to be crushing on him, so we do have a clue regarding her. Well they can make Alyx male for the movie. Oh damn, that will not work, you have to have a female lead to fill the sex quota. At this point I don't even care about HL3 the game. I really could not see them making a successful movie out of it focusing on Alyx and Freeman.

I have seen some story boards for what was going to be a fan made project. Alyx and Gordon were only tangentially in that. Mentioned constantly but almost never actually showing up in it. It was mostly about a group of freedom fighters including a father and daughter where the daughter was one of the last children born b4 the combine stopped the ability to reproduce. As I recall, Barney figured into it heavily, and it ended during the taking and escape of City 17. In the square by the horse the father took out the last strider with a suicide bomb of some sort while Freeman was also there fighting. It was the only scene where Freeman was actually present. The daughter escaped the city with her boyfriend and a few citizens on one of the trains. I have no idea if it was ever finally made. It has been a decade maybe since I saw those story boards. Actually seemed like you could get a pretty decent short out that premise.
 
A lot of games would make great movies. Half Life is mixed for me. Freeman being a silent character and the story isn't very well explained. Surely they can fill in the rest, but it just might not be the greatest game to adapt.
 
Flogger23m said:
A lot of games would make great movies. Half Life is mixed for me. Freeman being a silent character and the story isn't very well explained. Surely they can fill in the rest, but it just might not be the greatest game to adapt.
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well.... the Resident Evil movies were great IMO but...HL ...the way I play HL is full blast kill everything. To give Freeman a personality would be shit. While JJ Abrams surely would give HL a boost action-wise I think he would fuck it up like he did with Star Trek
 
I think Gordon Freeman should be cast as a highly-skilled MIT graduate with selective mutism. Not only would this give us a main-character with autism-spectrum traits (something I think would greatly help people feeling alone with said traits can relate to), it would also stay true to his original character and be QUITE believable within the context of Black Mesa, a highly regarded, forward-thinking, cutting-edge research facility.
 
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Spidey329 said:
Portal? How is a game about puzzles going to be made into a movie.
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Anyone who says this obviously has never played Portal or Portal 2.


Those games have more story than the average summer action movie.

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And lets face it: A movie based on fucking BATTLESHIP got green-lit. Your argument is invalid.
 
Spidey329 said:
Portal? How is a game about puzzles going to be made into a movie.
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Pretty easily. Just like in the game person wakes up, starts going through the puzzle rooms then breaks out and tries to figure out how to escape. I don't see how it is that hard to understand how that could be told in movie format.
 
Exavior said:
Pretty easily. Just like in the game person wakes up, starts going through the puzzle rooms then breaks out and tries to figure out how to escape. I don't see how it is that hard to understand how that could be told in movie format.
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Its pretty much like a more tongue-in-cheek version of the SciFi classic film "Cube".
 
I could easily see them making a animated movie based on portal. Not interested in anything half life other then a new game, i feel like a movie would miss the entire point of the games unless they plan on doing the whole film from the first person perspective.
 
KazeoHin said:
Anyone who says this obviously has never played Portal or Portal 2.


Those games have more story than the average summer action movie.

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And lets face it: A movie based on fucking BATTLESHIP got green-lit. Your argument is invalid.
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Had Battleship been called something else, and not had Hasbro put in the credits, it would have been a decent movie and most viewers would not have made the connection.
 
Well knowing what I know now about JJ.Abrams, just because he calls it something does not mean in any way that it's related to what that word implies.

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westrock2000 said:
Had Battleship been called something else, and not had Hasbro put in the credits, it would have been a decent Terrible movie and most viewers would not have made the connection remembered it.
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Just grading the paper here. you get a B-
 
Can Hollywood please stop giving this hack money. Wasn't it bad enough he messed with Star Wars and Star Trek?
 
Not a star wars guy so maybe I'm the wrong audience, but the new star wars movie was the worst movie I have ever seen. Leaving aside the fact that it was basically "Sergeant Bergdahl: the Movie," it had the worst acting this side of an ed wood film and more retarded plot holes than prometheus:

"6 of our fighter planes got shot down!"

"my god! That was half our entire fleet!"

this from "the resistance" the pr friendly name of the galaxy-spanning government's official army.

Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher are too old to act, so their wooden performances were a given, but that main chick had the acting chops of a rotten potato. Who casted her and how did she get the part?
 
westrock2000 said:
Had Battleship been called something else, and not had Hasbro put in the credits, it would have been a decent movie and most viewers would not have made the connection.
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I agree, personally I thought the movie was a decent movie and wish they would have called it something else.

westrock2000 said:
Well knowing what I know now about JJ.Abrams, just because he calls it something does not mean in any way that it's related to what that word implies.

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They kept saying that 10 Cloverfield Lane was not a sequel to Cloverfield. Which again, like with Battleship, give it a different name and its not that bad of a movie. Not a great movie, but not that bad of one either.
 
KazeoHin said:
Star trek, yes.

Star wars? Nah, it was alright. WAY better than Lucas.
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TFA was worse than the prequels. Only thing going for it was "diversity" and fandom hype. Even the Star Trek reboot was better in its own right than TFA. If they had released TFA instead of Episode IV back in 1977 the franchise would have been stillborn.
 
Quix said:
I always figure Gordon Freeman was as gay as you liked him to be. It's not like he has any personality, he's exactly who you want him to be.
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I hope he is gay. But, like in the games - you never really know. Because when shit hits the fan, you're not looking for love. You're getting the job done.

He's gay in Half Life 1 & 2. You just can't tell, because it doesn't fucking matter!

Brian Cranston would be perfect in the role.

Although, if he was gay and it mattered, I'd like to see Ryan Reynolds in the role. :D
 
aeliusg said:
TFA was worse than the prequels. Only thing going for it was "diversity" and fandom hype. Even the Star Trek reboot was better in its own right than TFA. If they had released TFA instead of Episode IV back in 1977 the franchise would have been stillborn.
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Okay. You do You. I don't really agree with you on the whole 'release it in 1977' thing as the movie was a carbon-copy of Ep4, just with different characters and interesting consequences. The prequels, on the other hand? they probably would have flopped harder than Fat Bastard off a diving board.
 
KazeoHin said:
Okay. You do You. I don't really agree with you on the whole 'release it in 1977' thing as the movie was a carbon-copy of Ep4, just with different characters and interesting consequences. The prequels, on the other hand? they probably would have flopped harder than Fat Bastard off a diving board.
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That worked because IV was already there for it to riff off of. As a film contained within itself TFA was absolutely horrible, and I thought it wasn't that great of a homage either. No great scenes, the pacing felt very off, the whole thing felt like something out of a Star Wars-themed amusement park rather than a real sequel. Without the multi-million-dollar CGI and the multi-million-dollar marketing campaign backing it up, it is lackluster fan fiction.
 
aeliusg said:
That worked because IV was already there for it to riff off of. As a film contained within itself TFA was absolutely horrible, and I thought it wasn't that great of a homage either. No great scenes, the pacing felt very off, the whole thing felt like something out of a Star Wars-themed amusement park rather than a real sequel. Without the multi-million-dollar CGI and the multi-million-dollar marketing campaign backing it up, it is lackluster fan fiction.
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Cool story. I enjoyed it.
 
Kuraudo said:
Not a star wars guy so maybe I'm the wrong audience, but the new star wars movie was the worst movie I have ever seen. Leaving aside the fact that it was basically "Sergeant Bergdahl: the Movie," it had the worst acting this side of an ed wood film and more retarded plot holes than prometheus:

"6 of our fighter planes got shot down!"

"my god! That was half our entire fleet!"
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Personally I thought that it was a small but good touch to add that line. It showed that the resistance was rag tag and had very limited resources (in that area at least). Not some mega force like what we saw in the prequels where there was planet sized battles.

If that's the worse movie you have ever seen, you need to expand your horizons....there is lots of fantastically bad movies out there....and you will feel better knowing what they are.
 
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