Topic: Max Payne flick filming next month.

[Pugnate]

Is it just me... or have they missed the window by a weeee bit?

http://movies.ign.com/articles/849/849068p1.html

But great casting, I think:

[Xessive]

I hope it turns out alright.

[MysterD]

I dunno, is it possible to cut down a 8-10 hour game and tell it in 2 hours???

Usually, the answer is no -- and I think that is one reason most games just don't translate well into movies; b/c so much good stuff from the game usually gets left the hell out.

I dunno, but episodic sized games (4-6 hours) might be a bit easier to tell in the usual timeframe of length of a movie (2 hours).

Regardless, I do hope Max Payne movie turns out well. It's be nice to see a great game somehow be turned into a great movie.

[Pugnate]

Umm... what?

A 10 hour game has maybe 15 minutes of actual storytelling.

[Jedi]

Really what 8-10 hourgame has 8-10 hours of story? I think the real problem is many video game stories just don't work well on the big screen, and their adaptions often end butchering the story anyway.
Lets face it Max Payne didn't have a great story it wastold well through the graphic novel thing, but it's a pretty standard bad guy does something bad to good guy, good guy goes around shooting poeple for revenge (with bullet time).

[Quemaqua]

It would need to be an incredibly stylistic movie, otherwise what Jedi said is true... it just wouldn't be anything special.

Also, the biggest problem is that games are interactive, movies aren't.  Turn an interactive story into a non-interactive one, and you lose what makes the story fundamentally unique.  No, most of the storytelling itself isn't interactive necessarily, but the general interactivity itself helps you further identify with characters and care about the situation.  Lose that, sometimes there just isn't enough left to carry it through.

[nickclone]

This movie is gonna blow, theres only two things they can do with it:

1. Make it an action movie like the game, but the slo-mo effects won't be as cool as they were several years ago (and they have to do it, its a staple in the game).

2. Alienate all of the game's fans and make it story driven...which will suck.

[MysterD]

This movie is gonna blow, theres only two things they can do with it:

1. Make it an action movie like the game, but the slo-mo effects won't be as cool as they were several years ago (and they have to do it, its a staple in the game).

2. Alienate all of the game's fans and make it story driven...which will suck.

Maybe they are just making a Max Payne Movie b/c they want it to be a sort of set-up tool for a Max Payne 3 Game.