Team Fortress 2 Abandons Hollywood, Cites Copyright

October 17, 2008 8:00 PM

Remember the Sandvich? The "weapon" that restores the health of the Heavy from Valve's Team Fortress 2? Valve posted an expose on its official blog, explaining how the Sandvich was headed straight for Hollywood in a four-hour epic, but some copyright issues got in the way.

The suits took issue with every brave, authority-questioning page of our Meet the Sandvich script--specifically that there were supposed "similarities" between it and the 1987 action film Predator, and more specifically that it was word for word the 1987 action film Predator.

"We took the script for Predator and put our names on it," confessed current Valve and former Old Man Murray writer Erik Wolpaw.

"Also, we had to paste the script for Road House there in the middle," added fellow writer Jay Pinkerton, explaining the would-be film's longer-than-Predator length.

With Valve throwing copyright--and seriousness--out the window, they decided to have some fun with Team Fortress 2's voice talent. With gems like the Soldier's "You're writing checks your butt will find uncashable!" now available for cell phone ringtone use, the whole story is worthy of a weekend read.

Blake Ellison

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October 17, 2008 8:26 PM

Let me be the first to say that lawyers are good for nothing but spoiling our fun!
- AlexW1203
  
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  October 18, 2008 12:26 AM
  
  Actually this is one of the few cases where they help (others on the list being disbarring JT, for one, among a handful of other anomalies). Instead of getting TF2'd Predator/Road House, which we can imagine, we instead got Meet the Sandwich and "He's like a big shaved bear!"