J.J. Abrams hoping for a Portal movie announcement ‘soon’ It was back in 2013 that fan-favorite producer J.J. Abrams and fan-favorite developer Gabe Newell announced a joint partnership between Bad Robot and Valve where the two would be working not only on a game idea together, but also films – namely Half-Life and Portal movies. Since then, there have been little developments on the projects and they appeared to be stuck in stasis like the game’s protagonists, Gordon Freeman and Chell, though Abrams said earlier this year that the pair were still in development.