Mark Wahlberg Lands Max Payne Movie Role

[Rappy Veteran]

Uwe Boll is like the blasphemy of all film world!

[carmatic]

Max Payne is basically a (/n endearing) ripoff of action movies to begin with. The fun part was that you actually got to *play* it.

wait a minute , wasnt the bullet time thing taken from like the matrix anyway? and now its going straight back into the big screen, in its very own film!

it would have to be close to 100% action... few films actually do that, they usually cheese up the plot , and thats whats making me not look forward to any kind of game-->film adaptation

that said tho, max payne had this comic strip thing going on in the game and there was alot of attitude and character in that, the storyline is basically almost blank, what made it good was how it was presented... maybe the film can keep it up like this, kind of like sin city but not quite as comic book-ey as that

[DELTETHISACCOUNT]

Hey,

I think Bruce Willis should have done this....

That's what I was thinking as I was reading the thread. Bruce looks nothing like Max, but he's just that ****ing awesome.

[carmatic]

but bruce willis already did sin city and thats noir enough of him

[Bawx]

Bruce Willis is a horrible actor and an embarrassment to cinema. I despise him. Mark Whalberg on the other grew up 15 minutes from me and can have my first born child as a punching bag if he desires.

[Lqv2015]

I think Marky Mark is a good choice. Not the best, but definitely not the worst. I have hopes for this one.

[Minimoose]

Mark Wahlberg is a good person for i role i think. I loved Shooter and i thought he was great in it, although there wasn't that much 'acting' to be done.

I dont mind Uwe Boll making crap movies from Bloodrayne etc... but from Farcry and games of that standard; i think it is rather unfair on everyone.

[Kreuger]

I never was into the game but I just might see this. I like Mark as an actor. Bruce Willis is utter garbage if you ask me.

[Green_Eye]

First of all I'm very happy there is going to be a movie based on Max Payne second of all I'm very happy with the director, semi-happy with Markie Mark although I still can't believe that he was a rapper :| and finally I really want this to go well as Max Payne was one of my all time fav games EVAR!!one1!

Uwe Boll comes under the natural disaster category and should be treated as such meaning any and all attempts should be made to stop him and his ruthless spree of movie garbage...

Whats with all the Bruce Willis hating? He is and will continue to be a great actor both funny, deep and mainly pure kick ass...

[CrashG]

For some reason I always pictured Michael Madsen as Max Payne.

[+virtorio MVC]

Mark Wahlberg seems like a pretty good choice to me. Hope they don't destory the movie.

[timmmay]

+1 Michael Madson for sure...but I guess their mind's are already made up (plus according to IMDB, MM already has ~15 films in the works :s)

But here's a thought...I wonder if the person they used to model Max Payne can act?! AFAIK they used real people to model the characters in the game. It would be cool to see the "actual" Max Payne in the film.

[Rappy Veteran]

For some reason I always pictured Michael Madsen as Max Payne.

Interesting option and he is gritty like Max Payne.

Mila Kunis, best known for That 70s Show and her voice of Meg on Family Guy, has been picked up to join the cast of Max Payne which is already filming in Toronto Ontario, starring Mark Wahlberg.

Mila Kunis has joined the cast of Max Payne and will play an Assassin. Max Payne is the stylish, urban, revenge-driven story of a fugitive cop with nothing to lose.

Max Payne is a very cinematically laid out game. Part of the game’s style features Max self narrating his own dark tale in the form of a graphic novel. He even acknowleges this at one drug enduced dream with statements like “Even before I saw the words forming above my head, I knew an inner monologue was coming on”.

In Max Payne, Mona Sax another assassin with whom Max Payne has a love interest in the sequel does make an appearance. I wonder if Mila will be playing this role. Would that mean they are making the Max Payne movie blend both 1 & 2? Or are they sharing the character with us as just a cameo to tease for a sequel?

The game featured the ability to enter a “bullet time” mode courtesy of the Matrix, so I hope we get to see that in this movie as well.

Edited March 12, 2008 by Rappy

[Apple-a-Day]

Max Pain 2 was created after the image of Timothy Gibbs and he is a actor as well as we can see here. You would think the years of working on the soaps would have gotten him the role for sure. :laugh: This

would have sold me for sure if I was casting director. (think I'm gonna hurl) Actually I would have used Homer Simpson as he did a awesome BT in the Insane Clown Poppy episode. But the better one was of Louis and Stewie having it out with guns witch was a parody of Neo and Smiths shoot out. Edited March 12, 2008 by Apple-a-Day

[+Elі Subscriber²]

Mark Wahlberg was a rapper? WTF!

Yes, he used to go by the name Marky Mark back in the 80s and was pretty popular back then; he hates it when they remind him of those days though :).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnzgNAzquCw

[Guest]

Uh, a PG-13 Max Payne? Is it even worth the effort?

[Umbrello]

Wow, it's a picture of Mark Whalberg getting into a car in the rain.

[morphen]

Say what? Last thing i heard was a rumor about somebody making a movie about Max Payne..

On IMDB

Source

[crazzyyfool]

https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=599828

[SabaTime]

should be kick ass

[SolidSapphire]

He looks very much the part to me. I hope this movie is a good as the (First) Game.

[The Rev]

wow, i never knew Marky Mark and Mark Wahlberg were one in the same.... Never really cared to figure it out anyway, he was a terrible musician :p At least he's a better actor (don't suppose he could be much worse than he was a singer LOL)

[Orange]

Nice hes a good actor and can pull off anything, good to see him going back to something action. Can't wait to see the matrix style gun fights :D

[John S. Veteran]

threads merged

[Denis W. Veteran]

has been picked up to join the cast of Max Payne which is already filming in Toronto Ontario, starring Mark Wahlberg.

+1 to films being made here. (Y) Wonder where they will film and whether they'll use that abandoned Lower Bay station for the initial Roscoe Street station sequence from the first Max Payne game.