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J.J. Abrams, Valve in talks for game and Half-Life or Portal filmPolygon spoke with J.J. Abrams following his on-stage discussion with Newell [at 2013 DICE Summit]. "It's as real as anything in Hollywood ever gets," Abrams said of the just-announced plans to develop movies based on Portal and Half-Life. "Which is that we are really talking to Valve, we are going to be bringing on a writer, we have a lot of very interesting ideas."
"And both a Portal and Half-Life movie are things I want to see," Abrams said. "We're also aware of the cautionary tales of movies that became games and vice versa. Our goal here to is to treat the world Valve has created in both these properties like anyone would a book or some great story that comes from a pitch or original script — just to treat it with the respect they treat their games and their players with."
In discussing the game project, Abrams said, "We've had so many meetings and finally got to a point where we said, ‘We need to start making stuff.' And so the ideas that we've had for games, the ideas they've had for turning Portal and Half-Life into a film, we just decided we actually have to start doing this stuff."
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