Portal movie - How would that work?

[Tony2077]

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

 

[FalloutJack]

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.

 

[Tony2077]

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.

OK i liked it as-well i just said it that way because it is subjective

 

[CaitSeith]

SNIP

Because POV is the whole point of the puzzles! We would never be able to solve the puzzles if we don't see what she's seeing, and just doing a few quick pan shots of turrets and lasers while she smirks in realization isn't the same. Might as well watch a Lets Play of Portal and call it a movie.

Also Jigsaw doesn't do puzzles, he does poetically brutal moral traps. He almost always tells you exactly how to solve it or get out, its just brutal and he own version of justice. Cutting my leg off or stabbing my dick with a needle filled with AIDS blood isn't a puzzle.

Portal is not an escape story, its a trial/error puzzle story. You only escape at the very end of the 2nd game, and even then its up in the air if you really did escape or not.

That really made me laugh. The movie being in POV would actually make it more like a LP video than anything else. Ironically that's pretty much what you're asking for by making the movie so strictly close to the game in terms of execution: a Portal LP video.

And Portal is a trial/error puzzle game, but the story is about trying to escape from the research center. Specially after the part where you discover that...

Spoiler

The cake is a lie!

 

[Phoenixmgs_v1legacy]

Well, I say "It'll be shit" and just leave it at that instead. I don't even think I'm being particularly negative, just realistic.
Theoretically, there is a possibility of a good Portal movie, yes.
But there's a problem with it: Tarkovsky is a bit busy being dead.
And he never played the games anyway.

Yes, because only 1 director who ever lived could direct a Portal movie!!!

I feel you my friend...
Everywhere you look here is a judgment of something without even be out yet or worst, be put and judge without even see it or play it from themselves...
For sure I pretent that there isn't a possibilty of a Pprtal movie suck HARD, but at least wait see for ourselves.

Yeah, it's pretty bad here. I remember just a bit ago a thread with the TC was exclaiming how great The Last Guardian looked. Basically every post but mine was it looks "generic" or "it looks its age". I think a creator is at least allowed a trilogy before his/her style becomes generic, and The Last Guardian will be only the 3rd Team ICO game made. Yet the Souls games are have already totaled 5 games with barely any change and those games aren't considered "generic". Who cares how the game looks; again, the Souls games don't look like anything great either (graphically, not aesthetically). Not to mention if you make a thread about graphics here, everyone comes into say fidelity isn't that important.

Because POV is the whole point of the puzzles! We would never be able to solve the puzzles if we don't see what she's seeing, and just doing a few quick pan shots of turrets and lasers while she smirks in realization isn't the same. Might as well watch a Lets Play of Portal and call it a movie.

Most games that use 1st-person camera just use it because it's far easier than a 3rd-person camera. I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case for Portal considering it was a very low budget and experimental game that wasn't even a standalone game when released. Anything done in 1st-person can be done in 3rd-person but not the other way around. You totally can't do a puzzle game in 3rd-person, that has never been done before!!!

 

[ultrabiome]

It can work. But it would have to be like Cube and a comedy. Instead of having just one test subject you'd have a team and they'd die one by one in funny ways until only one of them remains.

The idea of a team was essentially my thought imaging a Portal movie as well. Might work totally PG without death (elaborate fails that could have killed) to the ultra gory where few or one survive. And maybe end like the game on a ??

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

If you ask me 10 Cloverfield Lane (which Abrams produced) already had the makings of a Portal movie.

 

[DoPo]

Ever heard the sound of a hype train crashing? I did.

As for me...I can't understand how this is so much of a thing, really. Can a Portal move work? Yes. Can a Portal movie suck? Yes. Why does it matter to place our bets now and moreover why should we shout down who people who've put their chips an opposite choice? ...

I'm drawing a blank here.

 

[Phoenixmgs_v1legacy]

So, mister videogame movie enthusiast, remind me on which side you were in the Warcraft movie thread?

Want to find me a quote to indicate why that question is at all relevant?

Either way. I'm generally always on the side that isn't whining about absofuckinglutely everything.

You're whining. Right now. You really are.
Accept that people can have opinions different from yours and move on. This pretense that you're somehow better because you're "positive" and the like is cheap and looks silly because, guess what, you're not on both occasions.

You can't have an opinion on a work of art that doesn't exist yet. You said, "It won't work. Like at all." That is objectively wrong because a good Portal movie can exist. Will the Portal movie probably be bad? Yeah, but that's the case for just about every movie ever made, you've really enlightened the rest of us with your uniquely different opinion that no one else could have ever thought of, congratulations!!!

The thread is about how would a Portal movie work so you input has been completely inconsequential.

 

[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.