Valve: We'll make a Half-Life movie ourselves
Newell has a DIY attitude to film-making
Valve has stated quite categorically that the only way a Half-Life movie would get made is if they made it themselves.
Gabe Newell made the statement to PC Gamer in a recent interview adding that they are experimenting with the idea of making a film.
Newell said: "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."
He continued: "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."
