I et nyt interview med PC Gamer fortæller Gabe Newell, den daglige leder af Valve, hvordan udvikleren indtil flere gange har overvejet Half-Life som film, og hvordan de tidligere har måtte takke nej til Hollywood-fortolkninger af deres populære spilserie.
Til siden siger han således:
"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.
"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."
At dømme ud fra den fantastiske kvalitet der er at finde i de mange "Meet the Team" minifilm til Team Fortress 2, ville undertegnede pokkers gerne se hvad den dygtige udvikler kunne præstere i spillefilmslængde, så lad os krydse fingrene for at der sker noget på den front i den kommende fremtid.
