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I hope we'll get a screen adaptation of HL/HL:OpFor/HL2, at least as good as HBO's "The Last Of Us" (I loved it, and haven't even played that game).

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ill bet after the game of thrones debacle nobody wants to take on IP that doesn't have a conclusion already written.

I swear I recall Martin stating that he had given the show-runners a conclusion to put in the show, but they bin'd it.

The conclusion was a dumpster fire for so many issues, and it wasn't for lack of original content to derive from I'd argue.

And yet the books remain unwritten

Given how long it took for him to write the others, are you surprised?

I recalled correctly, he provided the showrunners with context, but they went largely ignored.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2019/05/11/george-rr-...

Marc Laidlaw, who worked on the game's story of Half-life and Half-life 2, published a script online [1] that could have been the outline of the plot of Episode 3. That could be sufficient for a serie.

[1]: https://combineoverwiki.net/wiki/Epistle_3

I read this some years back when it came out. Pretty weak I think, suffering from the same loss of sense of place that most stories get once they start doing time and space meta jumping

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