J.J. Abrams and Valve working on game project together

Why, do you have to make a video if you're just going to read out what's already in the article? And why write an article if you're making a video? Why would I want to read/watch both if I don't get any additional value out of the video or the text? This was bugging me forever with the reviews (although some reviews were more off-the-cuff and interesting) but this just seems like the last straw :X

I'm not happy about this choice at all. JJ Abrams??? Great, so we aren't going to see the G-Man at all during the movie, we will only catch glimpses of him walking away. He will finally reveal himself at the very end of the movie as a human-sized cockroach/fly/beetle monster.

JJ Abrams to direct Star Trek, Star Wars, and Half-Life 3? Because why not.

J.J. is one ugly nerd

Replace the portal gun with lens flare n you got yerself a JJ Abrams movie!

If they make a Half-Life movie then they need Charlie Sheen as he looked in The Arrival to play Gordon Freeman, looks just like him in that movie

Sure, let's make a movie. Let's make a TV Series. Let's make a comic book.

Let's make anything BUT a Half Life game.

As much as I like Newell's work, I just don't see this working.

JJ Abrams trashed Star Trek and Super 8 was an overly cliche'ed piece of shit. As long as Valve keeps making great games, I'll keep buying'em via my Steam account. But I really think I'm gonna end up passing on this Gabe-JJ project.

@CivilizedPsycho Because he's J.J Abrams.

Lol, Gabe Newell's face looks like "WTF am I doing?"

what the ****....who cares?

just finish HL3....this is beyond rediculous.

Please be half life 3 having J.J. Abrams do the story linking HL with Portal would be epic!

That's the face Gabe makes when asked about Half-Life 3.

Let me guess, a STAR TREK game powered by the SOURCE ENGINE. It would be really AWESOME!!!

@CivilizedPsycho Or Half-Life the Movie

I have this vague memory from way back, something involving Valve and a 3rd episode to something...but I just cant seem to remember.

just fucking work on episode 3 valve jesus how long do we have to wait?ffs

Prequel to HL2? Beginning of the Combines? Maybe a drama of Black Mesa vs Aperture Science!? Seven hour war? Meh that's predictable. The possibilities are so exciting! As for Portal, maybe a drama of Caroline and Johnson? I didn't play portal for the story sorry lol

At the very least, it's good to know that he WANTS to do this, and isn't just makin "a stupid, silly video game movie" like another, shittier director might say. He still isn't right at all for a Half-life movie, because a guy like JJ Abrams will just do what some studio tells him to do and make a movie that tries to tell an overly condensed version of the game's story and have it star Gordon Freeman. You would need a truly brilliant director to create a new story with new characters in that world to make a good Half-Life movie.

Or they could just bring in Michael Bay to make the whole movie about, and starring, the military forces that come in to cover it all up, and have 400 million dollars worth of tank and helicopter and camo glory shots. That would be BITCHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN'!!!!!

Screw it. Why don't they just give him the last two hobbit films, Doom 4 and the Batman reboot. What else can he ruin?

I still can't help but laugh at that picture....

OHHH NOOOSS, a half life film? Is Half Life 2 EP. 3 gonna be a movie instead of a game? LOL just kidding. But.....

I am a huge Star Trek fan, and J.J. adtrams absolutely ruined Star Trek. for that I despise the man. But valve is one of my favorite game companies So I am having really mixed fellings on this. As for J.J. directing Star Wars that seems right because the new Star Trek films are alot more like Star Wars than Star Trek. Anyways I can't wait until Valve reveals Source Engine 2 with videos of Half-Life 3 and Hopefully details about Left 4 Dead 3 and/or Portal 3. I agree with Davet666 what the heck happen to HL2-Episode 3.

Still waiting for HL2-Episode 3...

OH~ I got such conflicting feelings~ Love Valve, but don't really care for JJ Abrams.... Why!? Why can't they find someone else~~

By 2015 J.J. Abrams will be working on everything.

Between this, the new Star Trek and Star Wars movies I think we are being bombarded with too much JJ. Hope they all dont star looking the same.

I wonder how well Source can handle lens flare effects...

for the love of zues, please, please, half life 3.

uggh there's already too much lens flare everywhere in gaming, this does not bode well for those of us who still have our natural sight I guess :(

How the heck does Abrams keep getting work so fast? Anyways, I hope his lens flare obsession was just a phase.

I don't understand why we would NEED a Half-Life movie, whether it turns out good or not. HL is already like a movie anyway. The opening train sequence for example is entirely visual, constructing the story from images, rather than expositional dialogue. What benefit would it be to put that scene into a cinema? Portal wouldn't work at all. Its a game designed around the player's thinking and experimentation. The puzzles have to be there and who wants to watch someone else solve them?

I dislike the idea of a Half Life film, Gordon is meant to be a silent protagonist to help with player immersion, once you have some actor playing Gordon, the entire series is ruined for me.

ha ha whats with that picture halfway up the page?

i loved everything valve has ever made. HL3 IMM.

A portal movie?

urm, that might be....interesting?

Half life film?
Probably the episode 3 everyone of us has been waiting for!

That's one creepy picture....