J.J. Abrams to produce Half-Life movie

[_The_Petes]

So i was on IMDB tonight, wondering what else Mr. Abrams is going to be getting his hands wet in and i came across THIS:

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2697688/?ref_=nm_flmg_prd_2

 

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0009190/?ref_=nv_sr_1

 

It appears that J.J. Abrams will be producing a movie about the Valve "Half-Life" games. Seeing as how this is just and announcement, theres no word on release date and cast. Anyway, just thought i would share this snippet of movie info!

 

The Half-Life series begins in the 2000s, at the fictional Black Mesa Research Facility in New Mexico. Gordon Freeman, a recently employed theoretical physicist, is involved in an experiment analyzing an unknown crystalline artifact; however, when the anti-mass spectrometer beam contacts the crystal, it creates a resonance cascade that opens a dimensional rift between Black Mesa and another world called Xen, causing monsters to swarm Black Mesa and kill many of the facility's personnel. Attempts by the Black Mesa personnel to close the rift are unsuccessful, leading to a Marine Recon unit being sent in to silence the facility, including any survivors from the science team. Freeman fights through the facility to meet with several other scientists, who decide to travel to the alien dimension to stop the aliens. On Xen, Freeman eliminates the alien "leader" and is confronted by the G-Man, who offers Freeman employment before putting him into stasis.[2] Back in Black Mesa, a second alien race begins an invasion, but is stopped when a Marine corporal, Adrian Shephard, collapses its portal in the facility. The G-Man then destroys Black Mesa with a nuclear warhead, and detains Shephard in stasis. Barney Calhoun, a security officer, also escaped from the facility with Dr. Rosenberg and two other scientists. Nearly twenty years later,[2] Half-Life 2 opens as the G-Man brings Freeman out of stasis and inserts him into a dystopian Earth ruled by the Combine, a faction consisting of human and alien members, that used the dimensional rift caused at Black Mesa to conquer Earth in the interim. In the Eastern European settlement City 17, Freeman meets surviving members of the Black Mesa incident, including Isaac Kleiner, Barney Calhoun, Eli Vance and his daughter Alyx Vance, and aids in the human resistance against Combine rule. The Xen aliens, the Vortigaunts, who have been enslaved by the Combine, also assist the resistance. When his presence is made known to former Black Mesa administrator and Combine spokesman Wallace Breen, Freeman becomes a prime target for the Combine forces. Eventually, Freeman sparks a full revolution amongst the human citizens after destroying Nova Prospekt, a major Combine base and troop-production facility. Eli Vance and his daughter are subsequently captured by the Combine, and Freeman helps the resistance forces attack the Combine's Citadel to rescue them, fighting alongside Barney. Freeman fights his way through the Citadel, making his way to Breen's office. He is temporarily captured, but freed by Dr. Mossman, along with Eli and Alyx. Breen attempts to flee in a teleporter, but is presumed dead after Freeman destroys the dark energy reactor at the Citadel's top. The story continues with Half-Life 2: Episode One, as the G-Man then arrives to extract Freeman before he is engulfed in the explosion, but is interrupted when Vortigaunts liberate Freeman from stasis and place both him and Alyx Vance at the bottom of the Citadel. Alyx then contacts her father, Eli Vance, and Isaac Kleiner, who have escaped the city into the surrounding countryside. Kleiner informs them that the reactor's core has gone critical due to the destruction of the dark energy reaction, and is at risk of exploding at any moment, an explosion which could completely destroy City 17. To delay the explosion they must enter the Citadel's now-decaying core and attempt to stabilize its primary reactor while the citizens evacuate the city from a train station. While inside, they discover that the Combine are attempting to speed up the destruction of the reactor, and use the destruction of the Citadel to call for reinforcements from the Combine's native dimension. After downloading critical data, they move through the war-torn city to the train station to take the last train out of the city. The Combine then destroy the reactor and thus both the Citadel and the city; the resulting explosion causes the train to derail. Half-Life 2: Episode Two begins as Freeman awakens in one of the wrecked train cars with Alyx outside. In the distance a forming super-portal is visible where the Citadel used to stand. They begin a journey through the White Forest to a resistance-controlled missile base in the nearby mountains. Along the way, Freeman and Alyx are ambushed and Alyx is severely injured. However, a group of Vortigaunts are able to heal her. During the healing ritual, Freeman receives word from G-Man, indicating that the Vortigaunts were keeping him at bay. G-Man demands that Freeman take Alyx to White Forest as safely as possible, saying that he cannot help as per restrictions he has agreed to. They are able to reach the resistance base and deliver the data, which contains the codes to destroy the portal as well as information on the Borealis, an enigmatic research vessel operated by Black Mesa's rival, Aperture Science; however, the ship disappeared while testing portal technology. The base then launches a satellite that is able to shut down the super-portal, cutting off the Combine from outside assistance. However, as Alyx and Freeman prepare to travel to the Arctic and investigate the Borealis, they are attacked by Combine Advisors, who kill Eli Vance, before being driven off by Alyx's pet robot, D0g. Games.  Courtesy imdb.com and wikipedia.org

[Unhelpful]

I AM A WALL OF TEXT AND YOU WILL FEAR ME!!!!! Kidding. Yeah there were rumors of that not too long ago, cool to see it confirmed!

[joelthezombie15]

He and gaben were talking about it at a con a while ago glad to see it become reality. Sadly, i bet it will either be poo or it will not even end up coming out.  that page on jj abrams shows a portal movie aswell. 

[miyabwah]

Wow. What a wall of text. I doubt I'll remember that when the movie comes out, though.

[TheGhostVII]

He seems like a better fit for a Battlefield movie than Half Life.

[Ookami]

To be fucking honest - Fan made Half Life series are damn well made. They should keep up with this.

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There is no chance that they wouldnt find people for it or money if placed on kickstarter.

 

 

Movies like Portal, Half Life or GTA are being  "made" for over x-years. I would love to see Bioshock movie made.

[Lord Pantaloons]

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[yurihellsing]

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[Askew]

I wonder if GF will speak in the movie.

[TheGhostVII]

I wonder if GF will speak in the movie.

I think it would ruin one of the things that made him special if he did. I wonder what their justification for him not speaking would be.

[Askew]

I think it would ruin one of the things that made him special if he did. I wonder what their justification for him not speaking would be.

 

I agree 100% that he should not speak, I think they shouldn't justify it at all but just make it seem ok for him to say nothing like they do in the game by not asking him any questions that require a spoken answer. (and if they do some explosion or other disaster will occur immediately to interrupt)

[TheGhostVII]

I agree 100% that he should not speak, I think they shouldn't justify it at all but just make it seem ok for him to say nothing like they do in the game by not asking him any questions that require a spoken answer. (and if they do some explosion or other disaster will occur immediately to interrupt)

For all we know, he could be a mute. I mean, the game is first person and we don't see what he's doing with his body. He could be using sign language.

[Askew]

For all we know, he could be a mute. I mean, the game is first person and we don't see what he's doing with his body. He could be using sign language.

 

Or communicating telepathically using a pet Vortigaunt who sits on his shoulder.

[Puppet]

There is no chance that they wouldnt find people for it or money if placed on kickstarter.

 

I dunno, I doubt Kickstarter would be able to fund a movie of this caliber. I think the most ever raised was for the Pebble and that was $10m, the last Star Trek movie cost $185m to produce. I think Abrams, or more accurately his production company Bad Robot, could easily fund it by themselves and I'm sure Valve could chip in a few quid :lol:.

 

Still, I hope it works out, Half Life has great movie potential. Portal too, I think they have a lot more room to play about with the story without pissing off fans of the game, not sure if it would have the same interest as Half Life though.

 

Whatever happens I hope the anamorphic lens flare is toned down a little bit, its my biggest fear for Star Wars VII, Mindel definitely needs a good beating :lol:

[unemiaHen]

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[Ookami]

I dunno, I doubt Kickstarter would be able to fund a movie of this caliber. I think the most ever raised was for the Pebble and that was $10m, the last Star Trek movie cost $185m to produce. I think Abrams, or more accurately his production company Bad Robot, could easily fund it by themselves and I'm sure Valve could chip in a few quid :lol:.

 

Still, I hope it works out, Half Life has great movie potential. Portal too, I think they have a lot more room to play about with the story without pissing off fans of the game, not sure if it would have the same interest as Half Life though.

 

Whatever happens I hope the anamorphic lens flare is toned down a little bit, its my biggest fear for Star Wars VII, Mindel definitely needs a good beating :lol:

Giving 100k to a less known producer and add actors as fans of the game that would work for free. That fan made movie i gave was made for a 100 dollars.

[TopWargamer]

Brb nerdgasm

[_The_Petes]

Well seeing as how its being produced by J.J. Abrams, i think it will be as interesting as the new Star Wars films. Hes also producing "Portal" but i felt the need to NOT post that crap in the forums haha! as for the "wall of text", some people may not know the story line so i figured why not read it here. The links were just to provide the proof.

[Chatzev]

*Lens flare*

[_The_Petes]

*Lens flare*

i honestly didnt notice or pay attention to the lens flares that he incorporated in the Star Trek films. people are actually upset that he usues a TON of them but im pretty sure theyre just uber anti-CGI nerds =P