Mark Wahlberg Lands Max Payne Movie Role

[Rappy Veteran]

Beau Bridges has joined the cast of the dramatic thriller ?Max Payne,? based on the hit Rockstar video game. Mark Wahlberg plays the title character, a maverick cop determined to track down those responsible for the murder of his partner and family.

Bridges plays B.B. Hensley, a former cop and mentor figure to Payne, who helps him track down a cunning, ruthless killer.

Beau Bridges has a mentor quality about him, and I think he is a great cast for this type of role. Films adapted from video games have a horrible track record, but surely one day the trend will be broken and a victor will emerge. Is this the film to do it? I don?t know. I will say that with Beau and Mark on board, the cast is shaping up better than most and if any film has a shot of bucking the norm - this may be it.

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[Denis W. Veteran]

From the IMDB message board:

There's a screenplay found here. It's probably written by a fan. There's parts of it that sound really condensed, but there are also parts I liked. Comment below.

This fan screenplay does rely heavily on the use of aliases, something the original game didn't touch on. In this game Max Payne's real name was Max Forseti. "Payne" was his undercover name. Also Mona Sax's real name was Lisa Horne and she's the daughter of Nicole Horne. At first it sounds a bit WTF, but given their links to the Inner Circle as explained in Max Payne 1 and 2 it sort of makes sense here. No mention of her having a twin sister in this one.

Most of this script involves Max headbutting people and choking people to unconsciousness. Someone figured it'll be ridiculous to show a six thousand manslaughter show on the big screen. Also the part with the Finito brothers was stretched out far too long as Gognitti and Vlad were dropped. BB was dropped as well, which contradicts his confirmed role as reported above. There's a new random person called Mr. Smike who was Horne's wing man, and possibly the one who shot Alex in the beginning.

But overall, it's a pretty good fan written screenplay.

[Luis.A]

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.

Carefull what you say about John McClain!

[remix17]

The game felt like a movie. So what will the movie feel like?

[Matrix XII]

I'm really stoked for this actually, MW looks a lot like Max Payne, and he is a pretty decent actor.

[Rappy Veteran]

Mila Kunis Talks Payne

Mila Kunis is the dictionary definition of lovely. She's the dictionary definition of all definitions of lovely (there are up to six of them, depending on your particular dictionary). You'll see her a little later this year in the comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall, but she's also currently shooting Max Payne.

We're not that well versed with the computer game on which the movie is based, but it's basically about a cop (Mark Wahlberg) who has lost his family and is on a mission to bring those who caused their deaths to justice. We recently chatted with Kunis, who had this to say about the movie.

"For anyone who?s got concerns about Mark [Wahlberg] playing Max Payne, he?s amazing in it. Great actor, great guy," she insists. "I play [an assassin] called Mona Sachs who accuses him of murdering her sister and later comes to find out it wasn?t him. They kind of get together and try to figure out who was responsible for the murder of his wife and child and her sister. The whole film is about realising that you can go on a revenge spree and get your revenge but it doesn?t solve the problem. It?s a really great, dark movie. The story actually combines [the games] Max Payne 1 and 2 together. Lots of shooting and gunplay, but what makes this script different is that it?s a really dark, sad movie about a man who loses everything and thinks that the only way he can get it back is by revenge. And comes to terms with realising that he?ll never get it back."

[KeeperOfThePizza]

Mark Wahlberg was great in Shooter, I can see Max Payne being a good movie. I cant wait for a trailer.

[tablet_user]

forget the movie wheres the 3rd game lol

[Rappy Veteran]

Chris O'Donnell is Marks Opposite

It seems there are advantages to playing Meredith's spurned lover on Grey's Anatomy. Chris O'Donnell, who hasn't headlined a major film since 2000's Vertical Limit, just landed a role opposite Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis in Max Payne, Twentieth Century Fox's live-action adaptation of Rockstar Games' shoot-'em-up game. Payne is the story of a cop (Wahlberg), haunted by the death of his family, who's hot on the heels of a series of new murders. O'Donell will play executive Jason Colvin. John Moore (Behind Enemy Lines) is directing the crime noir drama, which is currently shooting in Toronto, from a script by newcomer Beau Thorne.

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[Orange]

Nice pictures Rappy, can't wait for this movie, was big fan of the game!

[Max Veteran]

Dexter (Michael C. Hall) should be playing Max Payne. He has the looks, and even the goddamned one-tone voice too.

[Pallab]

What ever they do, they better not change the theme music from the games.

[Konstanov]

Is that third picture the construction site in the fall of Max Payne?

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[CrashG]

^ Marky Mark looks ok as Max Payne, although I still think Michael Madsen would've made a better one.

[Orange]

Another photo..

[Rappy Veteran]

I think Marky Mark looks good as Max!

[Ayepecks]

Clearly they didn't hold true to the Max Payne look and feel. (Sarcasm) :laugh:

[GFM]

Another great games turned into an awful movie. Maybe this will be better than I expect, but judging by the trailer I don't expect it to be.

[burnsflipper]

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...

I like him too but the thing is he may be a little too old to play this role

[magik]

Am I the only one that thinks Mark Wahlberg is a good choice? He has the poise and demeanor that fits the Max Payne character perfectly, IMO.

[Pallab]

I wish they had just used the voice actor for MP in the games as he is also an actor!

For me MP's voice is more imp than looks.

Offtopic : Who the heck gave Boll a Best Director Award!!

Edited July 21, 2008 by Pallab

[Orange]

I wish they had just used the voice actor for MP in the games as he is also an actor!

For me MP's voice is more imp than looks.

Offtopic : Who the heck gave Boll a Best Director Award!!

Hoboken International Film Festival lol never heard of it, prob only 2 people go to it lol

[Rappy Veteran]

I bet no one else cared so they gave him the award :p