The ULTIMATE cast for Half-Life 2: The Movie

and oh yeah, one more:

Barney Calhoun - Jeff Daniels (again, I know they don't really look alike but I think the character is perfect for somebody like him)

ULTIMATE? You sure think highly of your own opinions don't you.

That is a horrible list.

Jon Hamm? Mark Strong? They'd barely be fit to play Griggs and Sheckley. No, Ian Holm as Magnusson and William B. Davis (aka Cancer Man from the X-Files) as G-Man. Alternatively, Robert Patrick, Clint Eastwood, Gary Oldman or Edward James Olmos.

Ron Perlman? No. Omid Djalili.

Michael Douglas as Breen? Well, I admit I do like that idea. Powers Boothe would be interesting, too.

David McCallum as Kleiner isn't that bad, either. But Matt Frewer would be better.

Julianne Moore? No. Hell no. Mary McDonnell.

Morgan Freeman as Vance? Absolutely horrible idea. Sidney Poitier. Or Joe Morton for a younger alternative.

Rosario Dawson is far too trashy to be Alyx. There's a shortage of good candidates, though. Morena Baccarin.

As for Barney... Alan Tudyk.

As much as I like Timothy Olyphant, Gordon Freeman should not be portrayed by anyone. The movie should be shot from a first-person perspective and he should have no lines.

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No police, no summons, no courts of law
No proper procedure, no rules of war

@redrome - I noticed you changed the cast around. Everyone that was black is now white. And everyone who was white is now black. Don't get me wrong, but putting in rappers isn't good casting either. Curtis would make good cannon fodder though. Maybe you were posting that for the lulz.

As far as the perfect cast goes, here are some ideas.

Gordan Freeman - (idk about this one yet, this is actually tough because when you think about it you really don't know what Gordan looks like. The box covers show him, but besides that the game gives you know way of knowing this. He also has no defined emotions. The movie maker would have to take liberties here.)

maybe Nicholas Cage

G-Man - Christopher Walken ( this is obvious and I am not sure why people haven't said it yet)

Barney - Jeff Daniels(the person who said Jeff Daniels is a genius, perfect guy for this part)

I won't say anymore, mostly because I believe the movie should portray the first game, not the second or later. It would allow the movie to target non-gamer crowds that never played the games. I also think Half Life 2's story has too many choke points to be put into one movie. However, Half Life 1 could probably be tempered into a movie without removing the parts of it that make it what it was. Sequels could be made, like Half Life 2,3,4,5, and so on. But these sequels don't have to match the games, they simply go through the timeline of Half Life 2. There is so many stopping points in the game that this would be easy to do.

I actual think Hugh Laurie would be a good Gordon Freeman.

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How about we don't make a Half-Life movie?

If there's a bussel in your headrow, GET A LAWNMOWER!

Dennis Hopper would have been perfect for breen