HL2 Movie = Not going to happen

It's impossible to make if you follow those ridiculous guidelines, making Freeman talk doesn't compromise anything. And of all the game adaptions I've never seen one that restricted the camera movement to the one in the game for the entirety of the film. It could be adapted into a film quite easily.

Watch a movie called "Children of Men." If ever a Half Life movie is made, it should follow those guidelines.

How would him talking compromise the story?

My idea: he's normal until the resonance cascade which makes him traumatized. he talks less and less as the movie goes on because of the horror at Black Mesa and uses his fear to kick ass. There:

*beep* YO COUCH NI GGA

We are all equal in the eyes of God...except for those goddamn ESKIMOS!!!

anything's possible... it just depends on how the transition from the video game to the big screen is made (and, of course, by who). my personal opinion is that a succesful (and faithful) half-life series-based movie can be done in the manner of the lotr trilogy (competent director + detailed plot). note that i said "successful" but not "original"... when it comes to the latter, i also think that the series could be comprised into one single film, but then it would have to miss some plot elements (i thought about an introductive sequence - like the first 10-20 minutes - and it goes like this: gordon arrives at the black mesa research facility just like in hl1, on his way to the test chamber he meets a few key characters like barney, eli vance, dr. kleiner - and of course, catches a glimpse of the g-man - and when the resonance cascade occurs, time suddenly stops for gordon, as he is "zapped" by a xenian crystal lightning, or maybe put into stasis by the g-man. after that, the hl2 plot line follows. gordon wakes up in a tram, reminiscent to the one in the beginning - like, from a nightmare - and while the world has radically changed since the arrival of the combine, he also suffers from a mild case of amnesia, that vanishes when he meets dr. vance and barney. the rest of the plot is loosely based on the rest of the hl2 campaign, including the three episodes. when i say loosely, i mean that the writer or director will have to adapt the screenplay so that it would fit an adequate running time - ie. removing some chapters, characters, creatures.)

wow... so much for an introductive sequence :D