Dan Trachtenberg

Today’s film is the 2011 short Portal: No Escape. The film is directed by Daniel Trachtenberg, and is inspired by the popular Portal videogame, with completely original characters. DanTrachtenberg was recently tapped to helm the long-gestating movie adaptation of the popular graphic novel Y: The Last Man, the movie with which Trachtenberg shall be making …

Portal: No Escape is a live-action short film based on the poplar game Portal. The films stars Danielle Rayne (All My Children) channelling Sarah Conner in the role of Chell, a prisoner who discovers an Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device (Portal gun) and uses it to try and escape. Director Dan Trachtenberg has re-envisioned a …