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Gabe Newell Reveals Hollywood's Terrible Half-Life Movie Ideas

Gabe Newell of Valve made two appearance on the recent Nerdist podcast, and among the many topics covered was Hollywood's Half-Life and Left 4 Dead movie proposals.

It's pretty easy to understand why Valve turned them away when they were presenting ideas that involved horse-riding in a movie based on Half-Life. Newell said, "There really were people who came to us with proposals of: ‘Okay, it's Half-Life 1, and there are horses, and it's a cavalry charge, and it's high-tech carbon armor on the horses,' and we were like, ‘What the f*** are you talking about? Have you even played this?'"

To be totally fair to Hollywood, I would probably go see that movie, just to see how far they got from the source material.

Head here to check out the two Gabe Newell episodes of the podcast.

Photo credit: Nerdist

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  • PC is better then xbox/ps3
  • lol horses
  • I wouldn't want to see that.
  • What the hell
    Have they played half-life or even know anything about it?

    Seriously this is why these movies based on games dont usually work, because of stupid people who dont actually know anything about the game
  • That sounds like Hollywood to me.

  • Would probably sell well on steam.

  • If they made that movie I'd probably go see it and then play the games and most likely be disappointed they weren't more like the movie.
  • What was the Left 4 Dead movie proposal? Is it as funny as the Half Life one?
  • That's pretty funny and those 2 Nerdist podcast episodes are fantastic. ^_^
    I learned that Gaben is a fan of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic!
  • o_O

  • Hollywood ruin something? CERTAINLY NOT. Oh wait, what I meant to say was "constantly, yes." I'm sure a Half-Life movie would be a every bit as bad, if not worse, than the Doom movie.
  • That's funny!

  • Why must Hollywood try to ruin things?
  • To be honest I want a Half Life movie...
    But I don't want to see the main characters to be seen.
    A story about some guy who lost his family in the war against the combine and is now joining the resistance for example.
    The Half Life uiverse has a lot of potential for good movies if you don't screw it up by putting Gordon Freeman, the G-Man or Alyx in front of the camera.
  • Looks like Gabe lost weight.
  • "..and there is a talking little furry creature known as a silox and it helps Gordy Fairman on his adventure to rescue the Princess!" - Hollywood

  • I'd see it.

  • Haha.

  • Horsecrap.

  • "Source material"

    Nice pun

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