Bryan Cranston Leads Valve’s Half-Life Live-Action Movie Concept
fortressofsolitude.co.zaBreaking Bad‘s Bryan Cranston is set to lead Valve’s Half-Life live-action movie concept? Not really. It’s just a very clever AI concept we really love. Just imagine this epic adventure through the Black Mesa Research Facility!
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Developed and published by Valve in 1998, Half-Life is a first-person shooter game that uses a combination of combat, puzzles, and scripted sequences to tell its story. After inspiring several games and having several others cancelled, it seemed like Half-Life had reached the end of its lifespan in 2007 with Half-Life 2: Episode Two. Then in 2020, Valve released Half-Life: Alyx, in which they controlled Alyx Vance, the main character’s ally.
Recently Hugo Haken Besik used Midjourney to create a live-action movie rendition of the Half-Life world, and while some fans loved the AI-generated live-action interpretations of the characters, most felt like nothing had stayed true to the games.
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Dr Gordon Freeman is the silent main protagonist of the game series. Shortly after the Black Mesa Research Facility hired him, his experiment went wrong. It triggers a Resonance Cascade, which ruptures the space-time continuum and allows hostile aliens to enter the facility.
AI was used to portray the silent, glasses-wearing playable character, and many agreed that he was the perfect choice for the character. The actor looks quite similar to the character and could definitely pull off the mute saviour who will go to great lengths to ensure the safety of those he cares about.
Steven Yeun seems to have been cast as Eli Vance, a former Black Mesa
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