p2pnet news view Movies | P2P:- You can’t make a decent movie without a whopping great budget. Right?

The Dark Knight cost reported $180 million dollars to put together.

It pulled in around a billion dollars before expenses — $2.98 after drug, alcohol and lawyer bills were paid. But still …

So it’s more than merely academically interesting to read this post on Daily Games News.

“Holy crap it’s been done, epic win, awesome,” it says.

“The Purchase Brothers have made a short film titled, ‘Escape from City 17′ based on Half-Life 2 and it’s live action awesomeness, being a total Half-Life 2 fan, this is win of the week.”

The story goes on to quote a clip from the official blurb »»»

The Escape From City 17 short film series is an adaptation based on the Half Life computer game saga by Valve Corporation. Originally envisioned as a project to test out numerous post production techniques, as well as a spec commercial, it ballooned into a multi part series.

Wow. Must have cost a packet, huh?

But, “Filmed guerilla style with no money, no time, no crew, no script, the first two episodes were made from beginning to end on a [wait for it] budget of $500.”

(Cheers, YKW)

Daily Games News – Video – Half-Life 2 Short Film – Escape From City 17, February 13, 2009

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