Portal is obviously a tremendous game, but how would it transfer to other entertainment mediums? We’ve already gotten a taste of what it would be like as a comic, and now we can see what it would be as a short film.
Titled Portal: No Escape, director Dan Trachtenberg has re-envisioned a grittier take on Portal and turned it into the 7-minute film seen above. It stars Danielle Rayne in the role of Chell, although, with her never speaking a word, that’s never explicitly stated. She’s kept prisoner in a room and eventually discovers the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device (the proper, fancy name for the Portal gun) and uses it to escape, only to realize she’s in a test chamber. The fan-favorite Companion Cube doesn’t make it an appearance, nor does GLaDOS or any cake, though you do get to see a few Aperture Science Weighted Storage Cubes.
Trachtenberg said on Twitter that it was filmed prior to Portal 2 being announced, making it upwards of a year and a half ago that production began.
