Indie film based on Half Life 2 - Escape From City 17 - is incredible!

By Les, on 13 February, 2009

Independent film makers Purchase Brothers have put together a film based on Valve’s Half-Life 2 video game. If Valve is smart they’ll hire these guys to make a full blown film. Check it:

Supposedly this only cost around $500 to make. Found over at Joystiq

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6 comments to Indie film based on Half Life 2 - Escape From City 17 - is incredible!

• EyesOnly

  14 February, 2009 at 6:18 AM

  Like a trailer for a movie, don’t believe they did that on $500 though.

  Think you are right Les, could make an entertaining movie.

  
• legacyABQ

  14 February, 2009 at 12:14 PM

  Not bad, not bad!

  
• Enigma

  14 February, 2009 at 5:42 PM

  EyesOnly:

  Why not?  I mean, what in it would be all that expensive?  Assume that the few actors in it are doing it for free, that leaves us with:

  Props (a $10 walkie-talkie, $5 crow-bar, and some presumable fake guns)

  Location (a trainyard…fair to assume they didn’t ask permission, so: free)

  Camera (probably the bulk of the cost, although digital cam are pretty cheap for the low models $200-300 maybe)

  Computer generated SFX and audio (a regular desktop, presumably they already had, and a quick bit of software piracy for the requsite programs…free-ish)

  So, yeah.  I can totally see $500, or less.  And i’m not diminishing it in any way, i think they did a bang-up job and i’m sure it was a lot of effort to get a product that good.  Still, the lim-fac here is time and skill, not money per se.

  
• EyesOnly

  15 February, 2009 at 6:56 AM

  Enigma.

  If you called in a lot of favours and got everyone working for free then that would reduce the cost greatly.

  The cost of props though can easily run up into thousands for costumes alone.

  
• AngryArchaeologist

  16 February, 2009 at 12:41 AM

  The movie was sent to Valve and they approve of it. It was featured on Steam update news. I think they could throw some money at this.

  
• Benior

  16 February, 2009 at 12:55 AM

  Even if the guns weren’t real, replicas that are that realistic still cost a couple hundred dollars.

  I only see this being done for less than $500 with a lot of free labor and borrowed/donated props.