Portal movie
I just remembered that they have got to use the closing theme songs by Jonathan Coulton in the movie. Would there be any complications in that?
That... makes a lot of sense, actually. I didn't think voice acting was that non-intrusive. Kinda feel like a twonce now for assuming it was intrusive. The More You Know, I guess.
To take this thread in a slightly different direction, Chell herself seems like a pretty flexible role. No voicing is required, so theoretically any actress could dye their hair and play her.
Let's say Hayden Panettiehhhhhhhhhh- Too good looking
Tim Burton. I LIKE that choice! And if we go with Tim Burton, we've already found our Chell: Helena Bonham Carter!
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Yes, that makes a lot of sense. List of a few potential Chells:
1. Jennifer Lawrence
2. Selena Gomez
3. Michelle Williams
This is the main problem with a Portal movie. It can't be about the portals. Portals worked in a game because they offered freedom of movement and possibilities for puzzles, neither of which can be conveyed properly in a non-interactive medium. It would therefore be impossible to "stay true to the game" in a movie because Portal and Portal 2 were made to be games. That's part of what makes them so great; they weren't trying to ape another medium. Making a movie from a game removes essential elements from the original product that relied on the interactivity.
Disagreed... the filmmaker just has to be clever enough! If they make the movie in the right way, then they can have the story not mainly focus on portals, because that would be boring. They can have the story focus on the story of the game, which involves portals. So in the story, our girl Chell is a test subject in the Aperture Labs where her life is at stake, and her survival just happens to depend on the use of portals.
While that would be excellent (Star Trek 2 and Super 8 are great movies) J.J. Abrams has been commissioned
Maybe I was wrong and JJA will get going on a Portal movie after all! http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/02/06/ ... ame-movies
Predicted release for the Portal movie: July 28, 2017
Oh yeah, I hadn't seen the video left by Ben before...
I suppose you could combine (ba-dum TSSS) it with the Half-Life storyline, that would make a "good" action movie if you just filmed HL2 gameplay with a third-person camera. Then you could focus on the portals and still get funding for the movie concept.
One thing I thought of is that if Stephen Merchant cannot voice Wheatley, then Johnny Depp seems like a good fit for the job.
If the first movie was successful and they pressed forth with sequels, do you think they would make the single player and coop stories in the Portal 2 game two separate movies, or would they try to combine them somehow?
Not to burst your bubble and I'm sure you already know this, but there is the chance of anyone making a Portal movie is about 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001%.
However because I know we're speaking hypothetically, if they were to make a movie, they shouldn't combine the cooperative story because it wasn't designed to be really deep. The writers knew and they discussed this in some video I saw of them that they didn't try to make the story very deep because you're not going to be laughing to GLaDOS' dialogue in coop, you're going to be laughing about how you just took the light bridge out from under your partner and sent them sprawling to their death.
DISCLAIMER: Of course you will be listening to GLaDOS some. That's why she repeats different parts of the story so many times, so you gather at least most of the story over time. And I honestly think GLaDOS' writing is better in coop anyways.
let me just say the same thing as ben did and that i did in the portal 3 speculation thread.
nuff' said.
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Hey, so I thought...
What if a Portal/Half-Life movie, instead of directly being based on the games and their stories, created entirely new stories featuring entirely new characters that merely are supporting material to the games? Maybe instead of being about Chell, the movie could be about the rivalry of Aperture and Black Mesa back in the day
Maybe the movie could be about Chell, just not what happened in Aperture. Maybe about what happens after GLaDOS sends her away. Or what happened before Chell found herself being tested in the lab, and how she got there. Perhaps at some point or another, the movie might explain why she's mute.