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In an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, Valve's co-founder and managing director Gabe Newell has criticised recent movies based on game franchises, proclaiming them as "unbelievably crappy."
"I have to put on my professional 'I'm doing this for the company' hat, not the 'I'm a movie go-er whose soul is going to be crushed by another unbelievably crappy game adaptation' one," Newell stated.
Newell went on to comment that there is a tax loophole in Germany which means investors aren't bothered about whether movies make a profit, "...so you have this collision of people who are not long-term stakeholders who just think 'what are the next five movies I can crank out before the German government closes this tax loophole?' And 95 per cent of the gaming movies are being made specifically for those reasons."
Newell also revealed that several Half-Life movie scripts have been put before him, but they've been poor - "They all sucked. They're just bad movies - movies that shouldn't get made.
"It's just not going to happen until we think that there's a director and a cast and a script and can say this is a movie we'd like to go and see, and not just some vanity piece," Newell concluded.
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