Valve Turned Down Movie Offers
Valve seems to be the only resilient company right now by not handing over their IP to make some quick money in the movie industry.
It seems that most of the big franchises are heading towards movies these days as Assassin’s Creed confirmed a screenwriter, the Mass Effect movie was handed over and Angry Birds announced a movie incoming too.
According to Polygon, Gabe Newell, Valve CEO, says that Valve has been approached for movie ideas about games like Left 4 Dead and the Half-Life franchise but turned them down because they felt that film makers aren’t able to capture the spirit of its games.
"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,'" Newell says. "And we were like, ‘What the <censored> are you talking about? Have you even played this?'"
Good job Gabe, keep the spirit of gaming alive. Although I wouldn’t mind seeing a DotA movie myself…
| Article Comments | |||||||||
| Great stuff Valve! Dont let them spoil a good story like Half Life with their Hollywood b*llsh*t | ||||||||
| Veteran Gamers have much higher standards of entertainment compared hollywood movie goers. But as history shown that Movies breaks games, loses fans, dissipoints people by the millions who have activily been involved in uncovering the storyline (playing the game) before it was ruined by Wood-in-Hol. What i like about games or now minority games is that each player choose their own path when playing a game, limited options, but different experience for each. Where a movie on the other hand is a Forced idea upon viewers and that is how it is, you can't reload your older save to do it different. there is no checkpoint. Valve probably has the most satisfied client/customer base of all companies on this planet? Am I wrong? | ||||||||
