Valve wants Team Fortress 2 movie
Valve has apparently been deluged by requests for them to make a Team Fortress 2 movie after the Meet The Spy video.
The idea has unsurprisingly come about after the 'Meet The...' videos that Valve has released to publicise the character updates for the game, but which were originally developed to help the artists and writers get a stronger idea of the characters.
"The number of people at this point who want us going off and making full length movies and that sort of stuff has got to a point where it's hard to ignore," Robin Walker told Kotaku recently.
"We're not ready to announce anything along those lines, but I don't think there's a person in this company that wouldn't love to see a full-length TF movie or even a 10-minute movie," added Valve's Erik Wolpaw, writer for Portal.
"I'm not just being cagey. I'm a little bit removed from these kinds of things. But they keep giving us a little bit more rope with which to hang ourselves, so who knows."
Valve makes it clear that it isn't yet sure what shape a Team Fortress 2 movie might take - it could be a feature length affair, or it could be a 10 minute long mini-epic, but the drive is there to make something.
Valve has released a total of seven 'Meet The..' character videos, with a few still to go. So far we've met the Sniper, Demoman, Heavy, Soldier, Engineer, Scout, Spy and, um...the Sandvich.
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Discuss in the forums ReplyHow would valve distribute it? cinema?
Pixar quality with Valve style!
Indeed. Just look at the Stig (Top Gear). The whole reason why people like "it" is because of unrevealed identity and the mythos that can develop around that. I'm just afraid that will not dare to go up against the hordes of 14 year olds how haven't learned to enjoy an open end. Every one has their own little theory about what Pyro is and wouldn't want them to ruin it.
My mythos WARNING SPOILER in a way
For me he is a well spoken gentleman with some manic traits. Somewhere between Hannibal Lecter and Patrick Bateman, but less psycho. For Meet the Pyro I'd like to see him in a robe in front of a fireplace in his study with him looking like the ordinary English gentleman, but gradually he would throw things (books he's holding) in the fire and start spreading it around while behaving increasingly erratic to the point where he is laughing maniacally with the entire room on fire.