HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - The creator of the hit FX cop series "The Shield" has signed a deal to adapt the shoot-'em-up video game "Max Payne" for the big screen.

Max Payne is an incredible character with a rabid fan base," said Shawn Ryan, who will adapt the property for Dimension Films. "As a writer and a gamer, I was ecstatic when (Dimension chief) Bob Weinstein offered me the opportunity to pen this potential franchise."

I just hope this movie is as good and enjoyable as the game was.

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The movie will probably be 5hrs long due to all the bullet time

they had better not f*** it up either.

ahahahaa nice antisane

most movies based on games suck

At least in Max Payne, they have a *little* more material to work with than say, Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat.

There are some games that could have potential as movies. Deus Ex and Thief spring to mind.

yeah could be cool to watch

good call anti :P

ooh ohh deus ex would be good also

Why not just play Deus Ex instead?

It is an interactive movie where you are not only the star, but also the director.

:)

donate me a movie screen to play it on plz fpot :P

hmmms it SHOULD be good

oh oh cant wait!!!!!!!!!!!
ive known about this for awhile....

good call with the bulle time though... :P very witty

Hey, maybe it will be like the matrix.

lots lots more though i bet ....

dive around a corner in bullet time and shoot deagle bullet into a skull and see it flying slow-mo
(my best kill in the game long deagle shot was awesome :P)

hmm
i wonder how much violence theyll put in it

like the bit at the start where his wife and kid get shot and stuff

Arnie Schwarznegger (sp?) was meant to be the main character in DOOM ages ago ... Turned out to be a flop, so they ditched it...

(You just wasted 5 seconds of your life reading that hehe )

How are they going to find an actor with that weird Facial Expression?

Max payne actually put on the movies would work quite well if its done correctly, it has a lot of potential to be really good
on the other hand it could be complete and utter ass
Deus Ex would be incredibly sexy if it were done..

"How are they going to find an actor with that weird Facial Expression?"

Sick a carrot up his coit. :D

Well the game actually has a storyline unlike streetfighter/mortal kombat and we all know that resident evil is getting decent reviews which is probably due to the fact that the director had a story line to work with.

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i really don't care about how good the movie is but who plays the role of max payne. it better be the guy from the pretender. :)

EHHEHEHEHEH nice one :P

i see the resemblence

Most game-movie conversions suck ass because the movies are made by people in hollywood who are out to make lots of money and wont let the story be very in depth. Max Payne is a much better base as it borrowed so heavily from film noir and crime movies to get its story as well as its ingame cutscene shots which looked just like a movie. Bullet time would really foul this movie up if it was overused as it has become way too common and the average viewer would sit there saying "ripoff". What should happen is have the games writers contribute to the scriptwriting and have all the storyboards based around those in the game. A prequal to the game would also make a cool movie as it would give the filmmakers poetic licence without taking s*** from the gamers.

but that will never happen becasue people who never play games will say to gay game-movies "thats was cool". its all because of america i say and htere stupid hollwood s***

Hehe, I was thinking, just the other day about how well Max Payne would translate to the cinema.

"How are they going to find an actor with that weird Facial Expression?"

Sick a carrot up his coit. :D

Haha.

Most game-movie conversions suck ass because the movies are made by people in hollywood who are out to make lots of money and wont let the story be very in depth. Max Payne is a much better base as it borrowed so heavily from film noir and crime movies to get its story as well as its ingame cutscene shots which looked just like a movie. Bullet time would really foul this movie up if it was overused as it has become way too common and the average viewer would sit there saying "ripoff". What should happen is have the games writers contribute to the scriptwriting and have all the storyboards based around those in the game. A prequal to the game would also make a cool movie as it would give the filmmakers poetic licence without taking s*** from the gamers.

I agree with some of that, however I think game<->movie conversions would work better if the movie production team actually consulted with the game dev. team so as to maintain consistency. Of course that doesn't mean they shouldn't be allowed poetic license, it just means that the film makers should at least try and keep within in the game's "universe".


Personally I didn't give two hoots about the bullet-time in Max Payne. The only thing that interested me was the storyline and the cinematic atmosphere. Those, in my opinion, are among the MOST important things in a game. Deus Ex had both of these qualities in addition to its brilliant design which is why I think its the best single-player game to date.

Lastly, one thing that really annoys me with game to movie conversions is how they always manage to "dumb it down". And as a result we end up with a goofy-looking, cheese and ham corn-dog.

sif the guy from the pretended, mel gibson pay back looked ok for a max payne kinda guy

or the invisable man, he is deffently a max payne look a like

Why not just hire the guy they modelled it off... assuming he can act of course.

hehehe

I reckon Steve Buscemi, Rockhound from Armageddon.

http://us.imdb.com/Name?Buscemi,+Steve

He looks like Max Payne

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urgh, im gonna have to agree with hunter. Using the guy they modeled max payne off does make the most sense.

Val Kilmer would be good as max or even the convict out of pitch black

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I reckon this movie will suck. I haven't really seen a movie based on a game turn out well at all :/

Ed Norton.

I actually saw some photoshop of Payne with nortons face on it once. Looked quite convincing.

Maybe it's jsut me, but i reckon game movies suck BECAUSE they try and make it like the game, instead of just making a good movie. They get too caught up in having this or that, and just forget to stop and wonder wether it will suck or not.

what's the story line to max payne?

max payne pretty much was a movie, that you had to click buttons for to make it go from scene to scene.

wow this really is great news. as others above me have said game to movie coversions and vice-versa have usually sucked but in this case i don't know how they could go wrong. I mean its got an excellent story line for one and secondly it has great action.

i can't wait!

Thief would definately make an unreal movie experience.

I hope they pull this off, I'd hate for them to slap Max Payne down from its podeum due to some poorly produced movie flop.

Oh, and on the same note, they better have a f***ing brilliant cinematographer.

i think over the years they have learnt how to make a decent game movie eg, tomb raider and resident evil, sure tomb raider was cheesy but that was typically expected, i think game movies are just going to get better and better

They should make a movie of Quake and Quake 2 for sure... and it would have to have Arnie in it :) ALl those dark gothic type levels would make for an unreal movie.

itd take a while to get arnie tho
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they should make the movie like i play the game, run in, shoot baby and wife to make sure theyre dead (otherwise, no reason to kill junkies) then break all tvs/windows/brakable things possible, jump around and use bullet time when not needed, eg. to walk down some stairs

i wonder if it'll have circle strafing

max payne movie : well. um

s*** HOT!!!!

id like to see the real max payne die as many times as i did when i played it, and i'd like to see him go thru the dream thingy(where gravity is low etc..)


jif, live it

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I played through all of Max Payne without ever using bullet-time and I didn't die that much, and when I did die it was only because aiming @ 2 fps is quite a task.

what the ??? i thought it isn't possible to play at 2 fps

Yeah, but you are stupid Hunter.

why did you do it without bullet time??? For me, that was half the fun, and added to the action movie feel.

Yer I did like doing the open door, jump in, start bullet time, kill everyone with BS head shots before the first hits the ground, end bullet time.

It just got kinda boring the 42nd time I did it and never got better.

they put bullet time in for a reason, trying to act hardcore by saying you didnt use it just proves how stupid you are. and sif watchign bullets fly past your head wasnt the best thing ever, kind like when i actually rid a rocket in q3 generations.. i spooged so hard that day

T3, total recall2, true lies2

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...

*ahem*

HOLY s***!

*spooges*

Not acting hardcore acrylic, I just didn't like it. I liked being able to walk in and waste all of the AI guys in less than 5 seconds without having to use slow-motion to compensate for slow reflexes.

ooo youurrr just soooo hardcooooore hunter....

Max payne looks exactly like the guy from invisible man....

Hunter: Thats like saying you play the Quake Series without using a mouse ;)


Bullet time was one of the major appeals of Max Payne.

Bullet time was one of the major appeals of Max Payne.

It was the only appeal of Max Payne.

LOL so true. Other then bullet time max payne woulda been a s*** game.

it still would have been pretty cool, just not as cool.

Secondly, just cause the game has a good storyline and s*** doesn't mean the movie will be good.

You can make a good movie out of ANYTHING, it takes talented directing and such. If a movie does not have this, it will suck. So what MP already ahs, will have jack s*** all effect on the movie.

What was so good about the story line for Max Payne, its on about the same par as the plot for Collateral Damage. The over the top dialogue and monologues in Max Payne didn't really help it either.

Arnie movies don't need a plot - they have Arnie ffs!!!!

Goddamn try Eric Mabius from Resident Evil as Max Payne. Deadset if they didn't model Max of him than he must be the guys brother or something. Hmmm maybe he COULD get a colt up the coti to perfect that Max Payne grimace

Indeed, first time I saw Mabius in Resident Evil I thought WTF he looks like Max Paine. And then when they call him Max (that's the character's name) that just pushed it over the edge.

Eric should play Max :p

hmmm, they better not do wot the did with the resident evil movie, they better leave it like a graphic novel, or else its just gonna look like another john woo movie, and yes, they do rock, but we dont need another dirty-harry/matrix movie out there

Teacher at my school looks like Max Payne.
I reckon the effects in the Max Payne will be the exact same as the Matrix.

max payne is cool i want to have sex with him and his dead wife and baby

go you little necro you :P

TEH IS THE WORD!!!!!!

get off it STD u necropheliac

Invasion of the victorians with their gay cartoon sigs!

As if we didn't have enough fagets in queensland, now we are importing them.

rofl @ import joke

Yeah that Max guy from the Resident Evil movie does look heaps like Max Payne at times.

What about the jock guy from Not Another Teen Movie.

Invis man seems good. So does pretender guy. Dont just think about looks think about demeaner and voice etc.

lol@tollazor lmfao the makeup artists have got some serious work cut out for them :)

makeup??? wtf is THAT?
is that what those female things wear? ummm, hmmmmmmmm

asif the john woo'esq stuff in res evil wasnt the best.

Claire vs mutant dogs scene=win.

Yeah... John Woo'esque stuff is good, whole John Woo movies get a bit mundane though... still pretty cool.

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A game based on B-grade action movie cliches will produce a movie that looks like a B-grade, cliched action movie. In other words a bad idea!

sif David Hasselhoff wont be chosen to play max.

If they do it all dark and cool, I'd like to see Edward Norton play Max.
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Me and dais were talking about how good the game would be for a film when it first came out, and we thought of a few guys who would be good for the different parts. Norton is the only one I can remember right now =P

I really liked 'The Score' was alot less hollywood action then I thought it was going to be (thank god).