Valve Already Exploring Its Own Half-Life Movie

Not content to let some Hollywood studio butcher the world of Half-Life, creators Valve are taking matters into its own hands by starting work on a movie themselves.

In an interview with PC Gamer, Gabe Newell, CEO and co-founder of Valve, said the company was frustrated by the Hollywood bigwigs who would blow through the office with horrible movie pitches that were a disservice to the franchise. "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,'" he explained. "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."

This isn't the first time Valve's talked about getting into movie making. The company has said its Team Fortress 2 character advertisement shorts (take a look at the hilarious "Meet the Sniper" below) were a tempting step in that direction – for perhaps a Team Fortress movie in particular – and they show Valve working with dialog, character development, actors, etc.

As for the Half-Life movie itself, that would still appear to be in the distance.

It's a start