[QUOTE=Raguleader]
Another vote for a Half Life game, if done well. Not sure who you’d cast as Gordon Freeman,
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No contest.
Yeah, you’re absolutely right.
I could see a workable movie based on Manic Miner.
Starring Danny DeVito.
[QUOTE=Raguleader]
Another vote for a Half Life game, if done well. Not sure who you’d cast as Gordon Freeman, I’m thinking maybe the guy who played Goose on Top Gun if he’s not too old for the role.
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[QUOTE=Miller]
Anthony Edwards?
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Yeah, give him a goatee and a crowbar, and I think it could work pretty good! 
[QUOTE=Raguleader]
Yeah, give him a goatee and a crowbar, and I think it could work pretty good!
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I actually have to agree with this, but I’m mostly going from his performance on ER. I just think he could nail the character, as I see him: quiet desperation, dry humor, iron-willed determination, and that certain bit of nerdiness.
Chirs Walken is like who I’d cast for G-Man, but he’s, I don’t know, too Christopher Walken. It’s like Kelsey Grammer playing Beast; yeah, he’s got the right characteristics, but he’s a little too known, a little too much of a star. I’d want someone who could kind of disappear into the role.
Of course, with big-budget movie-making money to through around, maybe the thing to do is completely CGI G-Man and use the original voice-actor. It would just make him that much more surreal (my theory is G-Man is some sort of cosmic entity that contracts out to various organizations and factions for his own reasons, and uses agents like Gordon as his tools).
The actor I see playing Gordon Freeman is Edward Norton, though Christian Bale would be an acceptable substitute.
I give you the Half-Life youtube movie trailer! Not bad, for what it is… …
[QUOTE=Scupper]
The actor I see playing Gordon Freeman is Edward Norton, though Christian Bale would be an acceptable substitute.
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Edward Norton I could see; he’d make an equally good Barney (dunno if this idea has been done to death yet or not). Christian Bale I don’t quite see as Gordon Freeman, but the man does have excellent range.
Re: Joust, has it occured to anyone that ostriches don’t actually fly?
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers]
Re: Joust, has it occured to anyone that ostriches don’t actually fly?
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I’m sure they’ll handwave it away in the film by calling it, “falling with style.” 