J.J. Abrams confirms Portal movie still in development, announcement coming "fairly soon"
Three years ago at a keynote event at D.I.C.E. 2013, movie director J.J. Abrams had revealed that he was working with Valve in order to produce movie adaptations of Portal and Half-Life. However, after that initial announcement, no word has been spoken about either project since then. That was, until today, where Abrams had an interview with IGN, in which he stated the following:
"We have a meeting coming up next week with Valve, we’re very active, I’m hoping that there will be a Portal announcement fairly soon" [...] "We are having some really interesting discussions with writers, many of whom...once you said you’re doing a movie or show about a specific thing that is a known quantity you start to find people who are rabid about these things. As someone who loves playing Half Life and Portal, what’s the movie of this, it’s incredible when you talk to someone who just ‘gets’ it, it’s like, oh my god, it’s really the seed for this incredible tree you’re growing."
Source: IGN Interview