In November last year we reported that ex-rapper-turned-actor Mark Wahlberg had landed the lead role in the movie, filling the combat shoes of the man with nothing to lose.
While 99-percent of movie adaptations of videogames are utter tripe we wouldn't touch with a 20-foot barge pole, here's hoping the cinema rendition of the gritty bullet-dodging action series will be hot.
And come on Take-Two, hurry up and give us the third game will ya?
If it followed the actual storyline of the games it'd be great. It's one of those games that's really dying to be a film, and the good news is that the IMDB page reads the plot exactly like the first game.
Wahlberg might be alright as Payne, but I still think Michael Madsen has a more suitable face. And maybe Nathan Fillion would've worked too, since he has that whole "weathered" look going on.
Oh no! What a payne in the ass. They never learn do they? Will it suck? Of course it will! Making films of games is just a payne. Will it pay? No, it will just be a payne!! In fact it will be a MAX PAYNE IN THE ASS!!!
Like many of you here I am a huge fan of Max Payne. I would even go so far as to say that it is my favourite PC game ever...although having said that Call of Duty 4 might be stealing its thunder! I digress.
As someone above said - at least the games actually have a storyline that could provide *SOME* depth to a movie - and since John Woo seems to have stopped making those action movies that made him a household name then there is a tiny chance that this could work. if they can capture that film-noir quality of the first game and throw in the dream sequences almost as they appear in the game then it could just work!
The Max Payne games are a mash of movie clichés, which work well in the context of the game because they've been put into a different medium and presented in a different way... if you recycle that back into a movie the result will be pap. It's going to be awful, I just know it is.
Well at least this time they've chosen a game with a modicum of narrative depth.
It blows my mind that anyone can consider Max Payne to have even the slightest modicum of narrative depth. In fact, if you step back and look at it objectively it's actually a huge blow for gaming narrative, riddled as it is with withered cliche after withered cliche.
As a game it's certainly addictive, but the fact that it so obviously wants to be a movie is exactly the reason why it should have been given a huge body swerve by the film studios. A grizzled cop fighting corruption within the police force and local government? How original!
thats all i can say really, ive finished both 1 and 2 more times than i care to remember. f**k this up hollywood and i shall be flying directly from dudley (well - Birmingham international) armed with a big stick and a mouldy trout to knock s**t out of everyone involved.
anyway - more to the point, will it have mona sax in there.... and who'll play her?
its a independant film so it won't be released on the big screen nor will it be released on dvd, it will be a free download......thats if it ever gets finished
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It still might be a decent movie but I won't get my hopes up... 
Have you seen him in Saw IV? He totally looked like Max Payne.
