Wahlberg to play Max Payne News

Didn't like the new Omen film much - too many 'cheap' scares I thought.

There's a Mark Wahlberg and, as imdb informed me, also a Mark Walberg, but no Mark Whalberg that I knew of. ;)

I would hope that this is a sign that they are going to take the film seriously. Not that Wahlberg is Olivier or something, but he is a "star".

I don't know, I'm just hoping for once they take one of these movies seriously - at least try to make a decent movie...

Oh God... :-(

Not that Wahlberg is Olivier or something, but he is a "star".


Really, really like him. Was great in The Departed as well as in Boogie Nights.

It's Wahlberg not Whalberg isn't it?

There is no Mark Walhberg. Only Marky Mark.

On a slightly unrelated note, I'm still interested what they're going to pull of with the Hitman series.

Meh... just give us the sequel to the "Super Mario Brothers" Movie, and we're set!!!

>"Was great in The Departed"

Yeah, the whole combined 60secs he was on scene.

I can't say he would be my first choice to play Max Payne. Hopefully he's better than the dude who's playing Agent 47 - Timothy Olyphant, or whatever his name is.

Apart from the fact that he was in a few key scenes, your point is...?

They'll probably try to be all arty and put a film noir spin.....

Oh. Sorry.

I bet Marky is practicing his constipated grimace as we speak.

Games-to-movies invariably suck almost as hard as movies-to-games, tho. What is the point, anyway? Even though the story is remarkably complex and intriguing for a shooter game, it is not really much to write home about when compared to other movies - is it?

I don't think the IP is worth much, either. Not like I am going to rush out the door to see this one, even though I enjoyed the game a lot. I just don't see the "synergy" between games and movies; although I see the point the other way around: massive movie marketing help sell games - I just don't think the opposite is true.

The upcoming Hitman movie is very comparable, I think. I can't really see the link between the gameplay that made that game great (disguises, puzzle solving, player freedom and plain badassness) evident in any form in the trailer. If anything, Timmy Olyphant looks vulnerable and skittish, not at all similar to the cold-hearted Agent 47 in the games. The similarities seem to end at the baldness, the black suit and the barcode tattoo. I don't think the nonsense about a cloned superassassin is going to go over very well in a movie setting at all.

First time I've seen an article mention Alan Wake in a while. I wonder how that's coming on, looked very interesting the last I saw of it.

Max Payne should be played by Mickey Rourke

Hope it follows the storyline of MP1, cracking game.

Max Payne should be played by Mickey Rourke

20 years, many bottles and a few boxing matches too old. ;)

Max Payne should be played by Eddie Cahill from CSI : NY.
I was really hoping for him to be chosen for that role, but he surely is too unknown....
)C:

Bah, Max should be played by Ricky Gervais.

Now that I would pay to see.

Why the hell isn't John Woo directing? The game was a rip off of (well homage to) his movies in the first place.

Ray Liotta would have been my pick.

I have to agree that Wahlberg was really great in the Departed.

Even if 90% of his dialogue was "F**K!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-uwa9dUCk0

They need Peter Stormare to play Vladimir the Russian.

Hopefully he's better than the dude who's playing Agent 47 - Timothy Olyphant, or whatever his name is.

Do yourself a favour and downlo... I mean, legitimately purchase the first season of Deadwood. Olyphant is pretty good. I don't expect Hitman to be anything other than a pile of monkeypoo anyway, though.

The director has done some unremarkable stuff and not even imdb knows of a writer named Beau Thorne. Also, miserable producers often try to make press by mentioning popular names without ever having even gotten their agents phone number.

Remedy has done remarkable work with the Paynes and while the story is a clichee they are some of the best written games and it flows together with the gameplay (at least in the first one perfectly). If anyone should write anything Max Payne it should only be Sami Järvi/Sam Lake.

However Remedy are also traitors having announced a third one and then selling the rights to Take-Two (I think).

"Why the hell isn't John Woo directing?"

Probably because he hasn't done a good movie since the mid-90s.

>"Apart from the fact that he was in a few key scenes, your point is...? "

That was my point.
I thought it was pretty obvious.

Great. He's a good actor. /adds movie to waiting pipeline

He was in few key scenes in the Departed, but no tipical movie could be good without good supporting actors. I am always impressed how well he can act!

I can see that working actually.

He is a guy that perhaps does more than his fair share of popcorn movies, but he's actually a pretty good actor despite his shady pop music background. He should probably look a touch older and wasted than he does in his typical roles though.

I thought it was pretty obvious.


No, it wasn't at all.

Make it R-rated and I'll be there with bells on. Make it PG-13 and they can go fuck themselves.

The Payne games were fun in that they were an affectionate pastiche of a load of movie cliches, which doesn't work if you then make a film, unless it's a spoof - you're just left with a lot of cliches. Still, any excuse to see a proper action film with guns, bullets, blood and swearing.

Wahlberg has shown his dedication to that cause by making Shooter, one of the few recent R-rated action films, and Fox have surprisingly done the same with Hitman, after they PG-13-ed the Alien, Predator and Die Hard franchises. So if you want to see this done right, buy a ticket for Hitman... even if you walk into a different screen and see something else :)

A gritty film noir with bullet time.

@ schachmatt - according to the small print on the box, Take Two have owned the franchise since at least before Max Payne 2 was released.

I don't think Remedy have ever intended to make Max Payne 3. I think they wanted to use the next eleven years to work on Alan Wake.

&PrinzPils

me and the missus call that guy from CSI - Max all the time.

glad to see we not on our own..

They better not screw this up.

Max Payne 1 was the best.

"Make it PG-13 and they can go fuck themselves."

But only once.

I was hoping for Michael Madsen but Mark is good too!

Or Sean Penn even! :P

I always thought Dean Winters (Ryan O'Reily from the tv show Oz) would have made the perfect Max. He looks the part and is a great actor.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0935921

Oh well, just hope it doesnt suck too much :P

Let's face it chaps, this will be a watered down shitfest, it might start off as a hard R rated film, but like Die Hard 4 and Hitman before it, once the movie studio bigwigs get in on the act it'll be chopped to fuck and made suitable for all the teenie boppers out there. It's all about the moolah with these IPs now, so if they can cut it to be more suitable for a younger audience they most certainly will even if its at risk of making a mockery of the actual franchise.
Die Hard 4 was definitely one of the worst cases I've seen, they didn't even do a good job editing, they just chucked in different, cleaner lines even though you could clearly see the characters were effing and blinding on screen.
Raaaaaaaaa, it really annoys me.

Sigh if only people were as polite as those portrayed in PG-rated films!

Alan Wake...that's a blast from the past. When was that originally set to release? Autumn 2005?

@ Triggerhappytel: Apparently you're right, Take-Two was already owner of Payne when the second one was made.

However, whoever put the "Max Payne will continue his journey through the night" in the end of the credits of MP2 seems to have wanted to make another one.
I can't imagine how the story could be followed up coherently, but I couldn't imagine it after the first part either.

It totally needs to have a Dick Justice trailer at the beginning.

>"No, it wasn't at all."

Cool. My point was that he wasn't in the film much.
Dunno what else I could've added.

I always thought that Christopher Nolans "Memento" was the perfect Max Payne story...which will probably make sense to someone.

"Why the hell isn't John Woo directing?"

"Probably because he hasn't done a good movie since the mid-90s."

No, because he is directing "Red Cliff", a film about the Three Kingdoms period in China, which would be out next year, look out for it, its looks rather good !!

Wahlberg is too chunky looking.