Topic: Max Payne - The Movie

[MysterD]

Looks like Mark Wahlberg will be Max Payne in the upcoming movie based off the Max Payne game.

Marky Mark is Max Payne
Nov 09, 2007 at 9:51 AM - Robert "Apache" Howarth - 22 Comments

It looks like Mark Wahlberg may be playing the role of Max Payne in the upcoming Hollywood adaptation of Remedy's killer John Woo bullet-time inspired PC game. More from our buds at Rotten Tomatoes:

    The third installment of the videogame series might still be in limbo, but Max Payne is coming to theaters -- and he might look a lot like Mark Wahlberg when he gets there.

    Variety reports that Wahlberg is in negotiations to star in 20th Century Fox's adaptation of the popular game about a "cop who is haunted by the tragic loss of his family and has little regard for rules as he investigates a series of mysterious murders." John Moore is set to direct, from a script by Beau Thorne.

    Taking on Payne would add to an already-crowded slate for Wahlberg; he recently stepped in for Ryan Gosling on the set of Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones, and will be starring in M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening next summer.

[Quemaqua]

 ... trying ... to care ... but ... can't ...

[Pugnate]

I thought it was a good choice. Trouble is Max Payne is way out of my system.

[Jedi]

Oh yeah this game... pfft who cares.

[Pugnate]

Maybe they will work on another Max Payne game because of this piece of news.

But I hope they don't for purely those motivations.

[MysterD]

Maybe they will work on another Max Payne game because of this piece of news.

But I hope they don't for purely those motivations.

Take 2 has the rights for Payne now, Remedy don't have them anymore.

Take 2 was planning a Max 3 w/out Remedy, but we ain't heard in forever who is developing it or what. It's like it got canceled or put on hold or something...

Plus, Remedy's busy making Alan Wake, which might come out for Win Vista in 2008...

[MysterD]

Something felt really missing with this movie -- i.e. the action that made the games great.

Despite the high production values, the action (when it actually happened), the story (wasn't as bad as expected, surprisingly), and the visuals being very well done, the movie lacked the action in the first hour that we know and love from the games. There was a great balance with the game from action sequences to the story-telling in-between -- and the movie could've been a good movies, if it had followed the game's blueprint.

Unfortunately, that's the flick's really only fault -- it took too long to get the action going. The action scenes, they just weren't there enough.

[Xessive]

I felt they made the story even more convoluted.

[MysterD]

I felt they made the story even more convoluted.

They did leave a lot out from the flick....

Max Payne Game and Movie Spoilers

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i.e. Some of the Punchinello family stuff and the Russian mob (dealing the illegal guns out) stuff that were in the game were left out in the movie.

The winged-demon stuff was interesting and seemed to fit the comic-book noir type of world that Max Payne was in, but the flick really needed more of Max "The Loose Cannon" in the first hour of the flick -- i.e. the action that the game seems to always portray him in.

Surprisingly, Mila wasn't too bad as Mona. Though, if I recall, she wasn't even involved until the second game.

I gotta' admit, the production values and acting were good...it's just too bad the action seemed quite lacking.

[W7RE]

I wanted a voicover about his beretta stirring nervously under his coat. I was sorely disappointed.

[K-man]

I always pictured Dean Winters as Max Payne. 

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0935921/

And yeah D, Mona Sax was involved in the first game.

[Xessive]

You're right about Dean Winters K-man! He looks like he could pull off a pretty good Max.

[Pugnate]

There is an example of a guy who won't admit reality on his hairline.