J.J. Abrams to announce Portal movie "soon"

[Notional]

According to PC Gamer, Star Trek/Wars director J.J. Abrams, is going to announce a movie adaptation of the popular minigame Portal.

 

Portal was first released as a small game bundles with Half-Life 2: Episode 2 along with another small online only game, called Team Fortress 2. Since then, Portal got a full size sequel (And TF2 grew to be a huge online game).

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Abrams continued: "As someone who loves playing Half Life and Portal, what’s the movie of this, it’s incredible when you talk to someone who just ‘gets’ it, it’s like, oh my god, it’s really the seed for this incredible tree you’re growing.

"I look forward to being able to talk about it and announce who's working on it."

There has been talks of a Valve movie adaptation before in Half-Life, but Valve has refused, as a love story always seems to be presented.

 

No mention of any date for the movie, or in fact even the announcement.

 

*Picture not from official movie

 

http://www.pcgamer.com/jj-abrams-to-meet-with-valve-next-week-to-discuss-portal-and-half-life-movies/?utm_content=buffer61147&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=buffer-pcgamertw

 

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Personally I think they could make an epic movie based on the Portal franchise. I do wonder if they are going serious/spooky or more child focused. I hope for the former.

[226477_1454181668]

Great, Hes a very good director. 

[HKZeroFive]

Considering this is Valve we're talking about, let's see how soon is 'soon'.

[christianled59]

I love portal. Portal is probably my favorite game/story/fantasy environment there is. I love the lore and everything about it. Although I'm excited for a move adaptation, I'm very worried they'll fuck it up. Just like every other video game movie.

[SteveGrabowski0]

This sounds horrible. We already got a great storyline through Portal 1 & 2. What could Hollywood possibly add?

[The_Denks]

8 minutes ago, Notional said:

According to PC Gamer, Star Trek/Wars director J.J. Abrams, is going to announce a movie adaptation of the popular minigame Portal.

 

Portal was first released as a small game bundles with Half-Life 2: Episode 2 along with another small online only game, called Team Fortress 2. Since then, Portal got a full size sequel (And TF2 grew to be a huge online game).

There has been talks of a Valve movie adaptation before in Half-Life, but Valve has refused, as a love story always seems to be presented.

 

No mention of any date for the movie, or in fact even the announcement.

 

http://www.pcgamer.com/jj-abrams-to-meet-with-valve-next-week-to-discuss-portal-and-half-life-movies/?utm_content=buffer61147&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=buffer-pcgamertw

 

 

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Personally I think they could make an epic movie based on the Portal franchise. I do wonder if they are going serious/spooky or more child focused. I hope for the former.

LITERAL ORGASM.

 

THIS IS HAPPENING, THIS IS REALLY HAPPENING, OMG

[Space Reptile]

lets see if they gonna cock this up and give chell a voice 

[79wjd]

Fruit Ninja The Movie > Portal The Movie.

 

What the fuck are studios thinking these days

[ivan134]

An announcement of an announcement. Nice.

[jasonvp]

They'd better cast J.K. Simmons as Cave Johnson.  Or, they've failed before they've begun.

 

"Cave Johnson... we're done here."

[ThinkWithPortals]

Please, please, PLEASE don't ruin my favourite video game franchise.

[Notional]

1 minute ago, ThinkWithPortals said:

Please, please, PLEASE don't ruin my favourite video game franchise.

Don't worry. Hollywood is just gonna say the pie is a lie, because it rhymes. So it's better, don't worry.

[SurvivorNVL]

I'm looking forward to the LENSE FLARES, and the heated sex scene with the companion cube.

[Bensemus]

I don't really see how this would work. In Portal you silently solve puzzles while listening to a robot talk. How would that translate to a movie?

[MoonSpot]

40 minutes ago, SurvivorNVL said:

I'm looking forward to the LENSE FLARES, and the heated sex scene with the companion cube.

That'll only happen if the cube is a minor, and then we'll have to awkwardly watch Chell cook up some Shakespearean B.S. for 10mins as to why statutory rape is okay.

[SurvivorNVL]

Just now, MoonSpot said:

That'll only happen if the cube is a minor, and then we'll have to awkwardly watch Chell cook up some Shakespearean B.S. for 10mins as to why statutory rape is okay.

Sounds like our society!  Hahaha--awh..

Need a cultural reset.  

[jollander]

Ok, I'm calling it. 

 

Abrams will put a HL3 logo somewhere in the background of that movie.

[Thiback]

I have a bad feeling about this. History has shown us that a video game movie adaptation most often suck. In fact, I think video games aren't made for that in the first place. 

 

[Thiback]

I have a bad feeling about this. History has shown us that a video game movie adaptation most often suck. In fact, I think video games aren't made for that in the first place. 
 

1 hour ago, Notional said:

There has been talks of a Valve movie adaptation before in Half-Life, but Valve has refused, as a love story always seems to be presented.

Where did you get the "love story always seems to be presented" bit ?

[The Benjamins]

10 minutes ago, Thiback said:

I have a bad feeling about this. History has shown us that a video game movie adaptation most often suck. In fact, I think video games aren't made for that in the first place. 

 

I dont think the warcraft movie was bad, and the assassin creed movie looks interesting 

[Thiback]

2 minutes ago, The Benjamins said:

I dont think the warcraft movie was bad, and the assassin creed movie looks interesting 

I haven't seen the Warcraft movie, I stopped watching movies adaptations of video games after I watched doom.

[dalekphalm]

43 minutes ago, Thiback said:

I have a bad feeling about this. History has shown us that a video game movie adaptation most often suck. In fact, I think video games aren't made for that in the first place. 
 

Where did you get the "love story always seems to be presented" bit ?

Yeah that's a bit odd, especially since HL2, HL2:EP1, and HL2:EP2 all spent a lot of time building up a love story between Alex and Gordon. It's plain as day, especially nearing the end of EP2, that they are going for a romance of sorts between the 2 characters.

 

I'd personally MUCH rather have a HL movie over a Portal movie. The story itself suits a movie format more, with bigger action set pieces, excellent dialog, a great story, etc.

 

But you know, Portal and HL are in the same in-game universe, so there could be some crossover, or they could do both and tie them together.

37 minutes ago, The Benjamins said:

I dont think the warcraft movie was bad, and the assassin creed movie looks interesting 

The problem with Warcraft is that if you're not a fan, you're not gonna have any idea who the fuck most of the cast is. The movie is for fans first and foremost, and while it's decent (haven't seen it, based on spoiler reviews), it's certainly not the most amazing thing ever.

 

Assassin's Creed does look good though, and it looks like they're doing a good job between balancing it for new viewers to the franchise vs hardcore fans of the game.

[TubsAlwaysWins]

1 hour ago, jollander said:

Ok, I'm calling it. 

 

Abrams will put a HL3 logo somewhere in the background of that movie.

Stop it you.

(Unless there actually will be a HL3 logo)

[2FA]

37 minutes ago, dalekphalm said:

The problem with Warcraft is that if you're not a fan, you're not gonna have any idea who the fuck most of the cast is. The movie is for fans first and foremost, and while it's decent (haven't seen it, based on spoiler reviews), it's certainly not the most amazing thing ever.

 

That and it relies on knowing more about Warcraft than just WoW.

[captain cactus]

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