Portal movie - How would that work?

[SweetShark]

Bad idea. A movie like this would be pretty gimmicky. They would have to make the whole film a puzzle or it would miss the point completely, and a puzzle like that would probably be confusing on film.

It can be easily become a great movie.
It just need to not be focus with the main plot of the game.
A Prequel in other words.

Don't you agree it would be great to see a complete origin not only for Glados, but for the facility as a whole?

We already had that in Portal 2. I don't need prequels taking the mystery out of everything. It's fine for things to be left to the imagination.

It doesn't need the movie be a 100% canon to the plot of the videogame series.
We already saw plot wise and visually many comic/videogame movie adaptations that aren't "faithfull" with the original material.
Maybe we can see other protagonist that doesn't have nothing to do with the videogames. Maybe we will see another mystery aspect not related again from the game. Maybe the Love Cube can talk. Maybe turrets have other design.
Sure, I would love if everything were like the videogame, but I don't care as long the movie is ok/good/awesome/excellent.

 

[SweetShark]

It won't work. Like at all.

You can make a good movie out of anything like say Lego.

Oh, the mythical "good movie".
Yeah, you can. Pull off a Resident Evil and do something else entirely. I'm not sure I'm interested in that.
The soul of Portal is loneliness. And in a movie there will be half a dozen characters and a love interest.

Your love interest will be the companion cube. Jus give her a voice and we are ready to go.
.........damn, we really need a visual novel with compaion cube and glados just for the curiosity of how it come out....

Also the other characters will the two test robots which will be terrible black gasta stereotypes.
Plus

 

[SweetShark]

It won't work. Like at all.

You can make a good movie out of anything like say Lego.

Oh, the mythical "good movie".
Yeah, you can. Pull off a Resident Evil and do something else entirely. I'm not sure I'm interested in that.
The soul of Portal is loneliness. And in a movie there will be half a dozen characters and a love interest.

well they made a movie out of battleship so who knows this may be possible

Actually, I liked it, and since "You're never the only one...". Well, let's give it some credit, although the one REAL disappointment is that nobody uttered "You sunk my battleship!".

OT: I like Sweetshark's idea, bur in the sense of making the fan-made Portal Prelude into a movie. It's a beginning, it has people in it with dialogue, it leads up to a situation of Glados going frigging nuts that needs to be resolved, and it has the use of Portals. Perfect.

Awwww, thank you. You make my blush like a little japanese girl.

Also my point about adaptations movies: You can take ANYTHING you loke a make it a movie.
Taking the board game an make it a movie about Aliens who battle the America battleship slis great!!! We must mostly worry of course the execution of the idea.

Heck I will say even this:
The Battleship videogame base from the movie had a GREAT idea for a gameplay merchanic. Your hero could give commands to different battleships tou own to do different kind of actions, like use airstrikes to killntje enemies you foghting in the land, follow you near to the see and helpnyounwoth the alien shopsn etc. All these while you were playing FPS and shooting aliens ala Halo style.
However again, great idea, but the execution was poor as far as I heared...
But the execution was excellent, I could easily see a scenario wich the hero get inside a giant robot to get something [anything will do] while fighting the aliens, then leave and give an order to the battleships to bomb it before the giant robot find you in the place you land it and kill.
OMG I WANT A GAME LIKE THAT. SO MANY POSSIBILITIES!!!!
AAAAAARGGHHHTGGGFF!!!!

 

[SweetShark]

It won't work. Like at all.

You can make a good movie out of anything like say Lego.

Oh, the mythical "good movie".
Yeah, you can. Pull off a Resident Evil and do something else entirely. I'm not sure I'm interested in that.
The soul of Portal is loneliness. And in a movie there will be half a dozen characters and a love interest.

Your love interest will be the companion cube. Jus give her a voice and we are ready to go.
.........damn, we really need a visual novel with compaion cube and glados just for the curiosity of how it come out....

Also the other characters will the two test robots which will be terrible black gasta stereotypes.
Plus

Doesn't need a voice. Nothing wrong with a silent character. If anything, a voice destroys the purpose of the character. It'd even be possible to write in an emotional, semi-humerous death scene nearer the end.

Castaways personified a ball. Why can't Portal personify a cube?

Also, Wheatly, Cave Johnson and Caroline are all key characters of Portal. I'd love to have Merchant return to voice in a movie.

Oh my, sorry for the confusion. I mean the companion cube to have a female voice.
This make sense because there is an unofficial canon which said there is a living person inside the companion cube.
In other words something like the game Transistor. You know the game with the silent singer and the talking sword. Greta game btw. 10/10.

 

[SweetShark]

Oh my, sorry for the confusion. I mean the companion cube to have a female voice.
This make sense because there is an unofficial canon which said there is a living person inside the companion cube.
In other words something like the game Transistor. You know the game with the silent singer and the talking sword. Greta game btw. 10/10.

Yeah that's what I was referring to.

Part of the joke with the cube is that it does nothing. It never disagrees with an opinion, it always stays where you put it, and it's the best listener. It is literally the perfect companion because of the fact that it is literally just a cube. I'm sure Glados even has a speech in Portal 1 where she explains the cube.

Essentially, Aperture tried to invent the perfect companion, and this was the result... An inanimate cube.

If you add a voice to it, then the joke is lost.

It'd actually be way better for Chel to have a voice, and for the cube to just accompany her through the movie. Since there's not actually any real reason for Chel to not have a voice. Just the fact that Half Life universe protags are silent.

Ok, this make sense. However I wish I could see the movie to have a lot of comedy on it, but honestly I think is a little bit difficult.
If it would be a prequel as I said, then yes, I can see where the humor can come from. However when the protagonist is alone with none to speak with like buddies I guess, there won't be a lot of comedy to begin with. Plus I don't see Cell being a character which can make jokes or do something funny.
Well, of course this maybe can change with the movie. We will see, we will see....

 

[MrCalavera_v1legacy]

Take the Cube movie and add a thick layer of black comedy to it.

Oh, and people worried about Chell being the only human person character... We had "one actor movies" before. Locke or MOON come to mind, when it comes to relatively new films. Hell, the latter even has a robot-companion.

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

A pixar animated style thing. A group of cute robots band together to escape Glados and Aperture Labs.

I don't think anything live action in the Portal setting would really work.

 

[SweetShark]

A pixar animated style thing. A group of cute robots band together to escape Glados and Aperture Labs.

I don't think anything live action in the Portal setting would really work.

Wow, this actually might work like a dream.
Let make a sad start like in the movie Up, then make it like Walle.