Gabe Newell of Valve made two appearance on the recent Nerdist podcast, and among the many topics covered was Hollywood's Half-Life and Left 4 Dead movie proposals.

It's pretty easy to understand why Valve turned them away when they were presenting ideas that involved horse-riding in a movie based on Half-Life. Newell said, "There really were people who came to us with proposals of: ‘Okay, it's Half-Life 1, and there are horses, and it's a cavalry charge, and it's high-tech carbon armor on the horses,' and we were like, ‘What the f*** are you talking about? Have you even played this?'"

To be totally fair to Hollywood, I would probably go see that movie, just to see how far they got from the source material.

Head here to check out the two Gabe Newell episodes of the podcast.

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