Now he says he's making Portal and Half-Life movies too.
Can't wait for the spin-off prequel featuring the origin of Vortigaunt #13.
Oh hey, anybody got some lens-flare jokes? Those never get old.
h/t SlyDante via Destructoid
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Someone mentioned a Krull remake being in the works! For realz?!? That's awesome news! I've been sitting on this shipment of original Krull action figures for years now. My fave? The widow of the web action play set. Puts Castle Greyskull to shame. It's not complete though. My uncle Dan snorted all the white sand years ago whilst in the midst of a coke bender...what he was doing playing with Krull action figures at the time, we will never know.
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He's taking over everything!! He's the personification of Disney!!!
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I've heard the plan is to make Half-life the movie by 2016, Half-life 2 by 2019, and Half-life 3 sometime in the late 24th century.
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@Canadian.Scott @ComradeDread Speaking of the mythic Half-Life 3... %s
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Between JJ Abrams......Guillermo Del Toro.........and Robert Rodriguez.........is there anything that hasn't been "promised to be made"???
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@Someguy @doctor_mindbender C'mon, a dark, gritty reboot of Krull would be awesome! Get Megan Fox to play Princess What's-Her-Name and that one bland guy from the GI Joe movie to play Prince Dullard. Liam Neeson to play the King Who Gets Killed as a throwback to the old movie.
We're talking boffo box office buckos, baby.
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@doctor_mindbender That does sound good! You are like that friend that convinces you to take a chance, then laughs at you when that chance gets your car stuck in the top of a tree.
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I heard from a reliable source that JJ is rebooting dune and replacing the sand worms with smoke monsters.
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Does this mean a Half-Life movie could conceivably be made before Bryan Cranston is too old to play Gordon Freeman?
@mrm1138 why would you want Cranston in a role where he doesn't speak? I mean I know if they actually made a movie he wouldn't be mute but imagine if that had the balls to have a main character in a movie say nothing.
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@mrm1138 Gordon Freeman is supposed to be in his late 20's (27-ish) during the events of Half-Life and about the same age physically in Half-Life 2 (since he was put into stasis), so Cranston may be too old to Freeman at this point...
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So what we're saying is that together, Joss Whedon and J.J. Abrams are going to capture every nerd love ever on film.
I'm actually pretty okay with this.
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@rabidronnie They will have a nerd army ... if by army we mean people sitting at a computer complaining about things, then yea, nerd army.
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@Someguy @rabidronnie Hey! The collective nerdrage of the internet has accomplished much in this generation!
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@rabidronnieI for one welcome our new Nerd Overlord...as a respected commenter on this website i could round up others for your CGI and Merchandising Caves.
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@TheConjurerOfCheapTricks @skrag2112 It would be a prequel where the portal gun is still a prototype. It still fires "portals", but they are horribly unstable and just cause what ever they are fired at to explode in two places at once.
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@Someguy @rabidronnie @chart001 @TheConjurerOfCheapTricks @skrag2112 No, that'll be the turrets.
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@rabidronnie @chart001 @TheConjurerOfCheapTricks @skrag2112 Bay will have him grunt and baby noises via Bumblebee.
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@rabidronnie @chart001 @TheConjurerOfCheapTricks @skrag2112 Not in Bay's world...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IXCK1EyP4s
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@chart001 @TheConjurerOfCheapTricks @skrag2112 at least it's a silent character.....
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@TheConjurerOfCheapTricks @skrag2112 All I see are huge breasted models jumping through exploding portals. And Shia Lebouf.
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@kirkbwriter @skrag2112 @TheConjurerOfCheapTricks
Well, considering how painful it looks.....
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@kirkbwriter @skrag2112 @TheConjurerOfCheapTricks Since Michael Bay found a way to make it look trite and stupid.
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@skrag2112 @TheConjurerOfCheapTricks Wait. Since when are huge breasted models jumping ever a bad thing?
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@skrag2112 @TheConjurerOfCheapTricks
And lens flares.........lots of lens flares
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@TheConjurerOfCheapTricks @skrag2112 Well, it would NOT involve Portals, that's for sure!
It would however involve a recycled car chase scene, wing suits and a battle on top of an abandoned skyscraper.
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@Someguy @rabidronnie @Ford_Thundercougarfalconbird @TheConjurerOfCheapTricks @skrag2112 Wait, kind of like what actually happened in Portal 2 with Wheatley. . . Hmmmmm. . .
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@rabidronnie @Ford_Thundercougarfalconbird @TheConjurerOfCheapTricks @skrag2112 Plus GlaDos will be destroyed by someone shoving some cockamamy thing into GlaDos and it destroying her even though there was no evidence it would do that and kinda what GlaDos wanted in the first place.
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@Ford_Thundercougarfalconbird @TheConjurerOfCheapTricks @skrag2112 Don't forget Chell wearing Victoria's Secret's latest style as she bounces about the testing rooms.
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@TheConjurerOfCheapTricks @Ford_Thundercougarfalconbird @skrag2112 And the companion cubes would have balls.
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@Ford_Thundercougarfalconbird @TheConjurerOfCheapTricks @skrag2112 And racial stereotype personality cores?
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@TheConjurerOfCheapTricks @skrag2112 Seeing as how Aperture Science is best known for creating complete & utter nonsenseical random chaos just for the hell of it, all in the name of mad science, I honestly don't know.
