Paulville and Rapture

A few rabid Ron Paul supporters have bought up a piece of land in The West (I presume near a polygamist compound) and want to create an Ayn Rand styled utopia based on the wise teachings of Ron Paul. Naturally, it is called Paullville. Recently, I was playing the demo to the game Bioshock, and it reminded me of Paullville. The game takes place in a vast undersea city circa 1960. The city, Rapture, was built by some crazy billionaire in reaction to oppression from religious and governmental bodies. The philosophy of Rapture is to let everyone pursue their own goals without external limitations. Of course, this leads to genetically modified, murderous, 1950s party mask wearing mutants that overthrow the city. In the mix are also Big Daddies, giants wearing old fashioned scuba gear wielding enormous drills, and the Little Sisters they protect, demonic adolescent girls. In conclusion, this is what happens when Ron Paul politics rule the land: rabid genetically modified humans harvesting ADAM off the living in a dilapidated underwater city. Awesome game by the way in every department and steampunk galore.

Gore Verbinski is slated to direct a big budget film adapatation of Bioshock, which would be the first case of a video game with a story worthy of being adapted into a film. But why is no one optioning Half Life 2? Here are my ideas:

• Half Life 2 definitely has a Children of Men dystopia feel so Alfonso Cuaron is an obvious choice. (This may be biased since I would have him direct Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants II and I would totally watch it (The Little Princess, great movie)). Anyway, Speilberg could also do it World-of-the-Worlds style. The striders look just like WotW's tripods and Minority Report's gadgetry would come into play.
• Speaking of gadgetry, the PORTAL GUN. This could be the next bullet-time effect. Not too mention the physics gun which is basically The Force.
• Casting: Gordon Freeman is a scientist with a goatee. So Ed Norton could do it. But Clive Owen would be perfect (for any role). Most importantly, the G-Man. He is Agent Smith without the fighting ability and 10x more ridiculous monotone speech. Crispin Glover would work.
• Details of the Combine should be kept to a minimum and the aliens (i.e. Vortigons) should be cut. Basically, it should be Children of Men with science fiction weapons and Lost-esque mystery.