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Dirk Diggler is a major PAYNE... kinda like Damon Wayans!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I know. Lame headline. Gimme a break. I'm tired and the only thing I could think of was a reference to a mediocre '90s comedy that still somehow holds a small place in my heart.
The news is that Mark Wahlberg is in talks to star in the MAX PAYNE video game adaptation Fox is gearing up for. I've never played it, but I've heard good things. Makes me wish I had a Gamefly account for stuff like this. I'm too lazy to hit the video store now... hell, I don't know if I even still have a membership...
Anyway, John Moore (THE OMEN remake) is directing the actioneer. What's the consensus from you folks? Fans of the game... bad casting? Good casting! Inquiring minds want to know!
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but only for it's bullet time gun battles, the story was average.
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He's good in most stuff he's in so im sure the film will be ok.
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Mark Wahlberg walks into a room. Kills everyone. Walks out through the only available door. Over and over and over again. Apart from a brief period where he has to follow a trail of blood in a dream sequence and keeps falling down invisible holes, making him want to gouge out his own eyes in frustration.
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Max Payne's big gimmick was that it was (IIRC) the first game to use bullet time. But bullet time in the year 2007 isn't all that exciting anymore, so I don't know how this will work. But, I'm interested. John Moore though, why? This is a movie that's going to stand or fall based on its action scenes, so a bland go-to remake guy with no particular sense of style or originality isn't going to cut it.
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Just so you all know.
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The game was quite interesting, the story-line very much film noir, you got the bullet-time special effects, a pill-popping "head-case" of a cop - if they take this seriously and let Wahlberg loose on the character and not try to make him in to a nice guy, this could definitely be a good thing...
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I love the MAX PAYNE games but he is NOT Mark Wahlberg. It requires a young Clint Eastwood type in the role. I have no idea who would be ideal but it certainly wouldn't be Mark friggin' Wahlberg.Who's casting this thing? Is it the same guy who's casting Star Trek because he needs to die.
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You're an idiot. Have to seen the action in Behind Enemy Lines (excellent by the way)? Or are you basing your comments on The Omen? Cause that wasn't an action movie dude. Whalberg is good casting and Moore is a solid director. Fuck you very much.
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are some of the best games ever made. wahlberg is a good actor at least.
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True that, the Fighter Jet/Missile chase sequence in Behind Enemy Lines was genuinely white knuckle.
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Looks just like the bloody character and after 5 series of 'Six Feet Under' is MORE than capable of portraying an alcoholic cop dealing with the death of his family whilst searching for their killer. Fuck off Wahlberg, stick to 'exec-producing' the excellent Entourage...ya been SHITE since the fluke in your career that was the AWESOME Boogie Nights...........Peter.....No!!!!
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I just don't think he is the right choice for this, AT ALL.
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John Moore. meh
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The game could potentially make a great modern day noir, the storyline was pretty strong and well told.
However whalberg can be a very boring actor when playing it sraight, he's fantastic in i heart huckabees, where he's playing a more extrovert character, but in shooter he was boringly forgetable. -
Wahlberg could convincingly pull of the roll of max payne. However if I were casting it i would've have tried to get Clive Owen or Timothy Olyphant. They would seem better suited for this role.
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Decent actor, but so wrong for this role.
Max needs to be world weary. A bit fatalistic. Wahlberg just doesn't have the gravitas for the role.
Dean Winters would be a good choice. Relative unknown, looks the part, and anyone who has seen Oz knows he can play hardcore.
But none of that matters. The REAL question is "Who will play Mooooaaaaaana Sax?" -
I fucking fed up with all these lame video game movies that (unbeleivably)keep being made ! THIS WILL SUCK, HALO WILL SUCK AS WILL EVERY OTHER FUCKING VIDEO GAME MOVIE ADAPTION !!! STOP WASTING OUR FUCKING TIME !!!!!
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so whatevz.
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Alan Tudyk IS Vladimir Lem!
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6 YEARS AGO!
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And keep the overbaked noir elements (but don't make it a parody) which could be tricky.
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plus, it was a game that styled itself in being like a hard boiled movie, so now there is a movie based on a game that wished it was a movie......use the new HITMAN to gauge how well Max Payne would do, then subtract about half of it.
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SO LEMME IN DA FUCKIN' HOUSE! If you don't know where that's from, shame on you.
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Will work but only if it was filmed almost exactly plike Payback. which is arguably the most similar film in visual style and tone made in the last 10 years.
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Looks-wise, I always thought it would be a good role for Eric Mabius (Daniel from Ugly Betty). The guy bears a striking resemblance to Max Payne.
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then he better work on getting Max Payne's trademark never changing constipated look on his face. I suggest eating several bricks of Velveeta cheese.
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It'd just be a darker version of his character from Max Payne.
But, since he seems to have some integrity, I guess we're stuck with Marky Mark- not that it matters, since most video game adaptations suck ass.
They need to make the script an amalgamation of both games, since the first games story was derivative. -
for the video game based on the movie... oh,wait...snarf
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I meant that Owen would be playing a version of his character from shoot-em up.
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Max Payne was a pretty decent noir influenced detective actioner ... but I've yet to see a GOOD movie come from a typically half-baked video game concept. I wouldn't touch it as an actor. I MIGHT consider giving it a shot as a writer?
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Was who i thought they actually got to do all the in game graphic novel bits or some guy who looked very like him so he would be perfect but don't know if he could pull off - Action AntiHero Grizled Cop although whoever it was in the Game looked like Jonny Knoxville so maybee even the game character never pulled it off!? Seem to remember it being a creepy kind of Dirty Harry/David Lynch type affair with Matrix Style Bullet time and something I'd rather play than watch. Just Played John Woos Stranglehold and it's the Best Woo movie he never made! Games are getting good these days to be sure!
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Dean Winters (from OZ) is and always has been the ONLY logical choice to play Max Payne. (for those that aren't familiar with him, he played Ryan O'Reilly on the show.)
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You shoulda let nay-cha take its co-worse, Mistah Walkah.
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"We DROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWNNNNNNNNNNN!"
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Whatever happened to that movie?
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It totally should be the photographer kid from American Beauty
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is Max Payne...you know this in your soul.
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That's all.
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What are you people talking about? Max Payne was one of the coolest games I have ever played, and I have played A LOT.
Personally, I wanted them to make this into a movie years ago. I would've preferred a Michael Madsen or Mel Gibson from Payback, but I guess they are both too old now.
Anyway, I like Mark Wahlberg a lot, ever since marky mark and the basketball diaries, and I can not wait to sit down in a dark movie theatre, and watch Max Payne The Movie.
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I "got" what you were trying 2 do with the headline. Lyrics from Biggie Smalls "One More Chance - Remix." No harm, no foul, homie.
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I hope he somehow passes. I don't like Marky Mark as a serious actor.
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I always thought he would make a decent max payne after watching him in that show Killer Instinct. not a big name actor but has the right look
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I can't see Wahlberg in that role.
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because the first time I played one of these games I had to look really closely to try and figure out if they based the character on him. Whalberg's not a bad choice, but I do like the suggestion of Peter Krause.
Either way I'm just happy it's getting made, these were some of my favorite games and I loved the ultra-noir writing. -
I liked this story when it was called "The Punisher."
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Could've sworn I remember reading a while back that Nic Cage was interested in making a movie based off of that game. That would make for a good movie too.
I think that one, and Max Payne, could easily translate well to being good movies in their own right, just because the original medium for the story was a video game doesn't mean that this is going to be another Super Mario Bros. The game's story is cinematic enough that it could end up really good. I just wonder if they're going to do those surreal trippy flashback scenes with the crying baby and the creepy hallway. -
but it's sequel was far better.
Wahlberg is a decent choice, but how 'bout Thomas Jayne? Definitely has the look and voice for it.
I haven't heard of any of the other actors that were suggested, so maybe I should look them up on IMDB. -
A video game being made into a movie is a step backwards. Going from controlling the character to just watching him? Lame.
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Has there ever been a good video game movie adaptation? Seriously. The closest thing I can think of was Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, which I thought was way underrated, even though six million people are about to yell at me for that, and that's not really an adaptation at all. Silent Hill was fun and creepy, but not worth multiple viewings. Video games are the most compelling medium. It's hard for me to say it, as an English Lit. and film major, but it's true. It's a medium where by its very nature you are constantly involved in the story. So translating a piece of art made for that medium into another medium where if the story and whatnot aren't compelling, you can lose focus entirely without changing the experience, just seems like its asking for trouble.
Also, part of the fun of Max Payne was the novelty of bullet-time gameplay, which we've now seen in very action movie made ever, and part of it was getting to be a character in a noir universeof cool lighting and femmes fatale and all that, which, again, we've already got those movies. So why? -
It's film noir pastiche in game form. If the movie will work it needs to also be film noir pastiche.
The same way Sin City is film noir pastiche based on a graphic novel that's film noir pastiche.
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Nov 09, 2007 11:21:54 AM CST
Not bad casting, but as a video game junky, I'm saying that this
by junofallon
If they're lucky they'll downplay the fact that it's a video game liscence and just make it a cop drama. The story is kind of weak to start with.
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Alec Baldwin would have made a perfect Max Payne 10 years and 60 pounds ago.
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Joey Lawrence refused to shave his head for a role in it. Now he has a shaved head. Go figure.
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Nov 09, 2007 11:34:49 AM CST
Tee Hee Major Payne, was way funnier than it should've been
by modlight
many drunken nights watching that in college.
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Who is going to play Travis Touchdown in the film adaptation of No More Heroes. Suda 51 himself said Travis Touchdown was based on Knoxville.
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Anyon know about this?
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He's like Matt Damon, except he costs less.
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Matt Damon doesn't absolutely fit. He's not the right face, period.
Why him? People will think he's Bourne's brother! Bring someone else, please. Not that I particularly care about this flick, but I'm really annoyed by the lame casting decision. -
Nov 09, 2007 12:37:56 PM CST
Almost all fits - lousy game, worthless director...
by stalin vs predator
High degree of pretentiousness... yes, but Marky Mark sticks out. Above all that. Why, Dirk, why?
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I remember it being pretty good, but could never find it.
I'd like to play a third game on the 360 more so than seeing a movie, but if done right it could be pretty gritty. I don't know if this director has it in him though. We shall see. Wahlberg could be okay, just depends on how he plays it. He shouldn't use his normal voice though. He needs to be more coarse and mellow. -
I took TheNorthlander's post and ran with it. So sue me.
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So now we have a movie, that is a rip-off of a game, that was a rip-off of action movies. Shall we make a game from the movie, and then a movie from that?
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They could've done better.
Will be fun anyway. Lot's of bullet time!
JUST PLEASE HAVE A DECENT SCRIPT. STOP MAKING DUMB VIDEOGAME ADAPTATIONS.
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Nov 09, 2007 1:05:36 PM CST
Agreed IAmMrMonkey! Wahlberg + Sin City Visuals = Max Payne
by drtobiasfunke
I was just about to say that. It's the absolute best way to do this movie. Any other way would get a major "meh" from me. Not sure how well Wahlberg would handle the voiceovers, but the concept alone is intriguing so far.
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have a bullet time scene in it. Works great in the games, but I can't imagine people not laughing out loud, err, LOL'ing if it happened in the movie.
I also don't think the games were all too much of a rip off of action movies sans the bullet time either. Sure you have the family killed and all of that, but the dream sequences and the noir feel made it stand out somewhat. -
this will just be another Wahlberg action movie. Just like Richard Donner said "if they got Robert Redford to play Superman, everyone would say that's Robert Redford flying around, not Superman"
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Called Sin City?
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I could care less about the bullet time, to me the best thing about Max Payne was the noirish graphic novel type story telling. Marky Mark doesn't have the right kind of grit to play this role. Thomas Jane would have been perfect.
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but dis time itz got marky mark
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I seem to remember him wearing a leather jacket on CSI: NY and his work on Friends was nothing short of acceptable. He is Max Payne.
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Did you see Shooter?
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by Poets of the Fall. Best song ever!
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was supposed to happen years ago. Seriously look in the instruction manual for the orginal PC game and it says they were in development with Dimension to make a movie.
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he definitely at least looks the part more than any actor I can think of.
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I think it's funny that people are mentioning Dean Winters for the role of Max. One of his costars on Rescue Me actually did the voice of Max Payne in the games. James McCaffrey plays Jimmy Keefe, Tommy's cousin, on the show, and is the original Max Payne.As far as the news of this director and actor...well, this sucks. A Max Payne film would work best as an adaptation not of the game play, but of the graphic novel and voice over sections. Getting an actor who looks like the model in the game is nice, but getting an actor who can actually play the nothing-to-lose grim and gritty Max Payne is more important. Mark Wahlberg is NOT that actor.
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Very kind of you sir.
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Mark Wahlberg became a damn fine actor since his early work with James Gray, James Foley and Paul Anderson (the good one). And he was the quintessential badass in Shooter. THAT was an action movie (yup, keep shoegazing LFoDH...) so it could work.
That being said, Max Payne was not really a groundgreaking game, just a pleasant time-waster. And John Moore is a joke, hasn't the guy some other old movie to remake? -
This game is OLD. And, while highly rated by reviewers, was no big hit among players. Hollywood is really running out of ideas.
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I don't think he is hard enough for the role. He is however goofy looking enough. Cuz come on lets face it...MP was kinda funny looking. I wanna know who is gonna play the sex female role.
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Nobody's playing the title character in G.I.Joe. They're basing it off of the 80's cartoon/toys/comics, not the action figure of the 70's with the kung fu grip. -
it was called The matrix, hard boiled, every noir film. this is a game that pays homage to these films. it baffles my mind why they would make a movie of this.
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Say "don't tase me bro!!" Was that u man?
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The second I saw this guy on screen in Resident Evil I knew if Max Payne was made into a movie, he should play Payne. Dude looks exactly like him.
This dude:
http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Events/5633/EricMabius_Grani_12245643_400.jpg
Looks like this dude:
http://www.gamerevolution.com/oldsite/games/pc/action/max_payne_face.jpg
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Nov 09, 2007 9:11:01 PM CST
Will he have that "I smell shit" look on his face like in the ga
by mrmysteryguest
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All this time, I never knew the same actor who played Tommy's cousin Jimmy Keefe did the voicework for Payne...and I love both Rescue Me and BOTH of the Max games. How bout this: have Clive Owen play the character in the film, but his voice is dubbed by McCaffery! As far as Wahlberg goes, he's proved he can act. But this part isn't him. It'd be like casting Christian Slater or something.
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Eric Mabius from Ugly Betty is the spitting image of Payne and hes done his share of action. Hes the only real choice.
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he does, indeed, look the part. I'd still have McC dub the voice, though. Now that I think of it, Clive Owen basically did Payne in Shoot 'Em Up; and he definitely had the proper black-and-white look in Sin City. Too bad, of course, nobody making the film will actually listen to us.
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he was born for this shit.
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The game is fucking cool!!! Clive Owen was the one for this but he already made Shoot'Em Up ...pity.
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seriously ive always liked that movie. a superhero from the ghetto who can barely afford his costume is pretty damn funny.
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I mean, it was a good game, but its not like it was the anti-drug storyline that made it good. Mark Wahlberg is probably the best choice for Payne, however.
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@ Gamestop
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well its true. maxpayne is just death wish but instead he's a cop
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