There have been some interesting fan takes on a Half-Life movie, but nothing has ever materialized from Hollywood. Speaking during a recent Steamcast, Valve CEO Gabe Newell said that he was open to the idea, but it would have to be based on an interesting idea.
“Certainly it’s something we’ve talked about a bunch, said Newell. The problem that we have is the same problem we have when we were having this conversations with people outside is we need to have an interesting movie in mind before we commit to it. There’s really so little value to making a bad movie about anything.
“I know it’s super exciting if somebody shows up and says: ‘Hey we want to option your movie and we’ve got a director and a writer attached to it, blah blah blah,’ he continues. it sounds really exciting, and then you sort of take a step back and say: ‘There has been a lot of really bad, bad, bad video game movies made and the world doesn’t need another one.’ I think that applying that test to anything we do is just as valuable as applying the test to any of the proposals that we ever say.”
