Jj Abrams Teases Portal Movie Announcement

Update one – 09.29.sixteen:

Speaking to

IGN

at the

Westworld

red carpet, director/producer J.J. Abrams gave an update on the upcoming

Portal

and

Half-Life

movies. While Abrams didn’t go into too much particular, he did reveal that he has a meeting coming up side by side week with Valve, the studio that created both games in question. And it seems like both Bad Robot and Valve are focusing on the

Portal

movie first.

“We have a coming together coming up next week with Valve, we’re very active, I’m hoping that in that location will be a

Portal

announcement fairly shortly,” said Abrams.

The declaration could involve a reveal of who is writing the script for the picture, as Abrams teased that he’due south had talked with writers about both games:

“We are having some really interesting discussions with writers, many of whom…once you said you’re doing a movie or show about a specific thing that is a known quantity y’all start to find people who are rabid near these things. As someone who loves playing

One-half-Life

and

Portal
, what’southward the movie of this, it’s incredible when you talk to someone who just ‘gets’ it, it’s like, oh my god, it’s really the seed for this incredible tree yous’re growing.”

Abrams was careful not to talk about

Portal
‘s story, and didn’t say if the film would follow the game’s storyline, which involves a facility full of platforming puzzles, inter-spatial portals, and a mad AI who loves cake. Non too much to chew on exactly, but peradventure we should gear up ourselves for a

Portal
announcement.

Original Story – 03.xiv.16:

While promoting his latest production,

10 Cloverfield Lane
, which is very skillful by the way, J.J. Abrams gave

IGN

an update about Bad Robot’s upcoming

Half-Life

and

Portal

movies. Information technology’south non much of an update and even Abrams says so.

“We’ve got writers, and we’re working on both those stories. Merely aught that would be an exciting update,” says Abrams, who’south set to produce both films. He didn’t reveal who the writers were, though. Information technology’s worth noting that manager Dan Trachtenberg, who helmed

ten Cloverfield Lane
, beginning came into prominence for his short fan flick,

Portal: No Escape
, which is based on the game. Trachtenberg might exist an platonic pick for the

Portal

movie, but nosotros’ll just have to see what’s adjacent for the upward-and-coming director.

Meanwhile, the

Half-Life

pic, which was showtime announced by Valve head Gabe Newell at Dice 2013, has proven to be every bit elusive equally the games themselves. Since the film’s annunciation, there hadn’t been any boosted data until now. We assumed it was burning in evolution hell. Glad to see that’s non the case.

The

Half-Life
series is the stuff of gaming legend, non simply due to its excellent gameplay and storytelling, but because of its seemingly cliffhanger ending. Fans of the series take been waiting for a proper sequel to 2007’s

Half-Life 2: Episode Ii

for quite a long time now. Every now and once again, we hear rumblings about when

One-half-Life iii

might arrive, just they never really amount to anything. Let’due south promise the moving-picture show fares better.

We’ll go along you updated on this as we learn more!