Valve Still Interested in Half-Life Hollywood Movie
Given the enormous popularity of all things Half-Life, it's a given that a movie will be made of the game eventually. Indeed, several attempts at getting such a project off the ground have been firmly rejected, Valve's Doug Lombardi revealed in a recent interview, but the developer behind the Sci-fi shooter phenomenon hasn't ruled out the possibility of extending the franchise to the silver screen.
Speaking to Eurogamer, the Valve marketing director admitted: "We've been approached by just about every major studio there is [to do a Half-Life movie]... we've met with some pretty serious players."
But despite being wined, dined, and meeting up with top movie stars, Lombardi and co have so far remained unimpressed: "Every treatment that I've seen for a Half-Life movie has stunk so badly I didn?t even want to be in the room with the script! I mean, [they were] just awful. We've been offered the whole deal, [but] it's like; we're not going to do that. We're not going to make another bad [game-related] movie.
Asked whether Valve would consider doing a movie of the game if the right treatment came along, Lombardi admitted it would be a go-er: "If one comes along we'll do it, if not... we're in this business to make games, right, we're doing pretty well for ourselves making games, there's no need."
Evidently Valve wouldn't let it become one of those, for example, Super Mario, lol.