if there even was a movie based on the game it would suck, come on every video game movie sucks. the game is to long to put into a movie format and still be good. they should stop doing game adaptaions to movies.
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But where else would we get to see someone killing off crabs with a crowbar?
shareEurogamer: Talking of Hollywood, has anyone from the movie world come up with a decent Half-Life movie script yet?
Gabe Newell: They all sucked!
Eurogamer: In what way did they suck?
Gabe Newell: They're just bad movies - movies that shouldn't get made. I'm a huge fan of movies, I love going to movies and we have absolutely no reason to do it. It's not like they've offered us these giant buckets of cash and said "let us go and ruin your game" [laughs]. They offer you little tiny amounts of cash, so it's like they've not even tried to bribe us to go and make a bad movie. So it's the one thing we're going to hold on to. Unless it's a great movie, unless it's as exciting a movie as the game was a game then it will never get made.
Eurogamer: Is it just that they're not really in tune with what Half-Life's about and don't get it?
Gabe Newell: No, I just think that there's an attitude right now that they're trying to exploit the built-in audience of gamers right now and they don't really care whether the movies are any good. I think there's also this element of financing in Germany where they don't really care how profitable the movies are either, so you have this collision of people who are not long-term stakeholders who just think 'what are the next five movies I can crank out before the German government closes this tax loophole?' and 95 per cent of the gaming movies are being made specifically for those reasons.
Eurogamer: Do you make a point of watching them just to see how bad they can be?
Gabe Newell: Yes [longest sigh ever]. I have to put on my professional 'I'm doing this for the company' hat, not the 'I'm a movie go-er whose soul is going to be crushed by another unbelievably crappy game adaptation' one.
They kind of already made a movie like the video game. It's called "The Mist." Except that it's based on a Stephen King short story, which is what the video game is based off of.
"The hideousness of that foot will haunt my dreams forever."share