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Director J.J. Abrams, who is wrapping up the new Star Trek<\/em> movie and will be working on a new Star Wars<\/em> movie after that has two video game projects in his sights.<\/p>\n

The producer-director plans to work closely with Valve to adapt the games “Half-Life<\/em>” and “Portal<\/em>” into films. Abrams made the announcement to a gathering of videogame creators at the D.I.C.E. Conference in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

“In many cases, games are better at telling stories than movies,” Abrams said, with gamers involved in steering the action, rather than acting as a passive viewer, but there are times when “players are often driving scenes in the wrong direction.”<\/p>\n

The projects are still very early in development through Abram’s Bad Robot production company and Valve and has not yet set up at a studio. Abrams has made a number of recent films recently with a distribution by Paramount including the Star Trek<\/em> films, Super 8<\/em> and Cloverfield<\/em>.<\/p>\n

There are several other films in development from other studios including movies based on Assassin’s Creed<\/em>, Splinter Cell<\/em>, World of Warcraft<\/em> and Uncharted<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Source: Variety<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Director J.J. Abrams, who is wrapping up the new Star Trek movie and will be working on a new Star Wars movie after that has two video game projects in his sights. The producer-director plans to work closely with Valve to adapt the games “Half-Life” and “Portal” into films. 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