Gore Verbinski might be able to make a fantastic "BioShock" movie. Mike Newell may have a killer "Prince of Persia" in him. But after going to see "Wall-E" last weekend the movie I'd like to see made is a Pixar-animated version of "Portal."

Or maybe that's what I just saw. If you go see "Wall-E" you're seeing -- sort of -- "Portal: The Movie." If you're a "Portal" fan, you'll see a twist that could radically transform the gameplay of a "Portal 2."

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Would you jump at the chance to take a tour of Pixar Studios? I did.

But leave your fancy electronics at home, kids. I didn't and got in trouble.

THQ held a media event yesterday for their upcoming "Wall-E" game at the filmmaker's headquarters in Emeryville, California. Getting into the studio was no problem, but that changed as a group of reporters I was with neared a tiny theater tucked away at the end of the lobby.

The presentation theater (of which Pixar has several in-house) was to house a gaggle of mostly foreign gaming press to check out four short clips from the near-finished movie and a first look at THQ's "Wall-E" game.

It took an hour to enter the theater and I wasn't even at the end of the line. So I asked the security guard patting me down why Pixar was so paranoid about some game journalists.

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