Max Payne Movie

[Kennerado]

Nice pics

[John]

Originally Posted by Damien_Azreal

Lets make sure it's official first, then lets see what comes from it.

I had little faith in Mos Def when I heard he was cast in "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" and "16 Blocks", but those turned out great and he turned out to be a damn good actor.

So lets see what Ludacris can do before we automatically count him out.

I'm not "automatically counting him out", but Ludacris is *not* Mos Def. Mos Def has shown his talent in more than one good film (the ones you've mentioned, also Something the Lord Made)

While Ludacris isn't the worst I've seen, I didn't really like him in Hustle & Flow or Crash that much.

[Klaus Kinski]

I couldn't care less about Ludacris acting skills as he is completely wrong for the part. If that turns out to be true...
I was never thrilled with the idea of a Max Payne movie in the first place but casting decisions like that won't help it at all. What's next? Kathy Bates as Duke?

[dos4gw]

The Max Payne movie poster: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9Dc6OxFfeI

[ADM]

Originally Posted by dos4gw

The Max Payne movie poster: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9Dc6OxFfeI

ok? Don't really "get" it. Not sure if it's supposed to be funny.

[dos4gw]

Nothing funny intended...I think it's the actual movie poster. It might be fake, but I don't think so.

[Samji]

Originally Posted by dos4gw

Nothing funny intended...I think it's the actual movie poster. It might be fake, but I don't think so.

Why Youtube? It's a static image.

[dos4gw]

I guess the guy didn't have a blog or something. I found it here, too. http://posters.motechnet.com/title/tt0467197/

[Klaus Kinski]

That poster is crap. I'd rather have the game's cover with Mark instead of Sam.

[Zom-B]

Looks fake to me. Why wouldn't "undercover cop" be capitalized? Even if it is with "Fugitive" it still looks unprofessional.

Hmm..

[Damien_Azreal]

I say fake.

It's way to early to be releasing posters... and that one is just shit for design. And the face that's screaming.... it looks way to similar to John Travolta on the cover of "Blow Out" to me.

[ADM]

Yeah it's definitely a fake, the font's used are simple default windows fonts. Majority of design work use custom fonts.

[Dunedain]

What the heck, marky mark is a retard, why would they pick him?? Couldn't they get anyone better? Someone like Michael Madsen would be vastly superior.

[Cleric]

You guys might laugh at this, but here's somebody whom I just saw in a movie, and if he was a more serious actor, I could see him as Max.

J
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m
Carrey

Chop the hair a bit, and there's Max IMO. For anybody who hasn't seen this movie, it's pretty strange, but he does a great job with the Fingerling character.

[Damien_Azreal]

The Number 24 is awesome.

[alexgk]

This movie is looking great

[BloodWolf806]

I'm worried about this movie. I'm kind of expecting it to suck, but I'm hoping to god it's awesome.

[Karthik]

I'm curious but did Fox get the rights to Max Payne because Take 2's boss worked at Fox previously?

[Joe Siegler]

Saw a presumably fake movie poster floating around. Thought I'd mention it.

It does bring up some ideas, though. What do you think the Max Payne movie poster will actually look like when it comes out?

[Joe Siegler]

For some reason I was forced to enter "Max 1" when I posted this. I'll investigate.

[Zom-B]

Mentioned in the " Max Payne Movie" thread, I still think it's fake.

Originally Posted by dos4gw

The Max Payne movie poster: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9Dc6OxFfeI
I guess the guy didn't have a blog or something. I found it here, too. http://posters.motechnet.com/title/tt0467197/

Originally Posted by Zom-B

Looks fake to me. Why wouldn't "undercover cop" be capitalized? Even if it is with "Fugitive" it still looks unprofessional.

Hmm..

[dan2091]

I was looking around and found on imdb that they consider Max Payne in post-ppoduction, any news?
Also, at the forums someone put part of one of the drafts of the Max Payne script, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0467197/board, I don't know if it is original.

Spoiler:

show spoiler

MAX PAYNE
by

Beau Michael Thorne
Fourth Draft
08/24/2007

OVER BLACK:
MAX’S VOICE


I don’t believe in heaven, but I have
this idea about it. Something I heard in
a song.


FADE IN:


White.


A pristine, empty frame. Clean and peaceful.


MAX’S VOICE


Heaven is a place where nothing ever
happens.


There’s gentle motion in the blank frame, like swirling 16mm
grain. A RUMBLE starts to build, low but growing louder...
The grain moves faster, big chunks fluttering, now a dirty
dishwater grey. The RUMBLE becoming a HOWLING WIND.


Churning black water LAPS at the bottom of the frame...


EXT. HUDSON RIVER - DAWN

A blizzard, at the peak of its power. Visibility zero, New
York reduced to the hulking shapes of buildings on the banks.
MAX PAYNE thrashes in the water, a long way from shore.
MAX’S VOICE


There’s an army of bodies under this
river. Criminals, people who ran out of
time, out of friends.


Chunks of ice float in the dirty water around him. Max’s
body freezing, skin turning blue. Heavy winter clothes
saturating, like an anchor dragging him down...



MAX’S VOICE
The next time they drag this river,
they’ll find me on the bottom with the
rest of them. And there won’t be anybody
left to say I was different.


Max’s face sinks below the surface...


CUT TO:
2.
(CONTINUED)
INT. HALLWAY - DAY
Nothing to orient us to the location, the time. Just a flash
of golden light filling the hall, warm as the river was cold.
Around a closed door, sunlight streams through the gaps...

BEDROOM
A WOMAN sleeps on the bed, curled up around a bundled BABY.
Is this the final, peaceful memory of a drowning man?
Something’s wrong, then: the woman’s body in an unnatural
position, more thrown than laid across the bed. The crib
tipped over, blankets scattered. Her eyes frozen open.
Something BLACK flutters against the window pane, CRACKING
into the glass. The sound of the BLIZZARD creeps in...

RESUME - HUDSON RIVER
Wind POUNDS the river where Max had once been, but there’s no
more thrashing in the water. Mixed in behind the falling
snowflakes, BLACK
SHAPES swirl and dive closer to the water.

MAX’S VOICE
I could feel the dead down there, just
below my feet. Reaching up to welcome me
as one of their own.

Max breaks the surface - GASPING, STRUGGLING against the
undertow. Not simply trying to breathe...trying to swim.

MAX’S VOICE
It was an easy mistake to make.

CUT TO:

EXT. STREET (NYC) - NIGHT
Abruptly, the snow is gone. Just a bitter wind left in its
place, whipping through desolate streets long after midnight.
Shuffling up the littered sidewalk, three rough-looking MEN
duck out of the wind by descending down to the subway...
On the dark side of the street, a pair of BOOTS follows them.

TITLE CARD: ONE WEEK EARLIER

INT. ROSCOE ST. STATION - DAY
A filthy platform, empty except for the three Men huddled on
a
bench. A squeaking TURNSTILE catches their ear...

3.
CONTINUED:
(CONTINUED)
The same boots grind towards the Men. We don’t see the
walker’s face, distracted by something else: a gleaming gold
wristwatch. As if to make certain the Men notice, he pulls
back his sleeve to check the time. Quarter past three...
The watch glints as it passes into a dark doorway marked
‘MEN’S.’ The Men follow, exchanging wicked grins. Too easy.

SUBWAY BATHROOM
The Men slink into the bathroom, smirking at their oblivious
prey at the sink. Steam rising, he sets the watch on the
edge of the sink before washing his hands...

MAN #1
Hey, that’s a really nice watch.
No answer. One of the Men LOCKS the door. At the sound of
the lock SNAPPING, he raises his head...
Max Payne, but not yet the man struggling for life in the
river: clean-shaven, skin like bleached bone. Haunted eyes.
I
n the murky mirror, Max sees the Men circling closer...
MAN #1
(drooling over the watch)
Kinda reminds me of one I lost--

MAX
You didn’t lose it. You pawned it up on
128th a few hours ago.

Max shuts off the water and calmly turns to face them.

MAX
(nodding to Man #2)
Ask Doug. He was there with you.
Doug frowns, deeply confused about being called by his name.

DOUG
You’ve been following us all night?

MAX
No.
(pointing)
I’m only following you.
While Doug digests that, PAWNSHOP pulls a pistol and trains
it on Max’s forehead. The third man - not much more than a
KID, visibly frightened - backs towards the door.
4.
CONTINUED:
(CONTINUED)

PAWNSHOP
You a cop, or something?

MAX
Not tonight.

PAWNSHOP
Too bad.
(to Doug)
Go get my watch.
Distractedly eyeballing Max, Doug brushes the watch off of
the sink. It hits the dirty tile, delicate crystal CRACKING.
In a sudden blur of movement, Max has one hand on the pistol,
the other one SMASHING into Pawnshop’s windpipe...
Doug steps forward to help... BOOM! The pistol goes off as
Max pries it free. Max looks up at Doug. Nowhere to run, he
r
aces into the farthest stall and SLAMS the door.
In the same instant, the Kid bolts for the door. Max has to
pick: follow or stay with the man he’s tracking...
In the stall, Doug crawls on his stomach across the sticky
floor, trying to squeeze under the divider. Max raises the
pistol and BLASTS a hole through the door of the next stall.

DOUG
(raving, eyes closed)
Watch over me, watch over me...
The newly-perforated door flies open. Handcuffs SNAP,
restraining a WHIMPERING Doug to the toilet pipe.

MAX
Open your eyes, now.
Doug finds himself staring at the pistol’s front sight. Max
reaches into his pocket and produces a tattered photograph...
It’s the woman from Max’s golden vision in the river.

MAX
Have you ever seen her before?
Doug shakes his head violently, confusion and terror rising.

MAX
You got busted robbing a house in New
Jersey with William Preston three--

DOUG
Bill’s dead.

MAX
That’s why I’m talking to you.
(moving the photo closer)
Did he ever say anything about this
woman? Did you ever hear anyone--

DOUG
Bill died because their wings couldn’t
lift him up.

MAX
No, he got shot robbing a liquor store.
What are you talking about?

DOUG
(incoherent, rambling)
Their wings are golden, the feathers only
look black...
Sighing, Max unlocks Doug from the pipe, hauling him up and
slamming into the wall as he cuffs his hands behind his back.

PLATFORM
Max stalks out of the bathroom, pushing Doug ahead of him.
Down on the tracks, the Kid shrinks into the shadows...

SUBWAY TUNNEL
The Kid runs down the dark tracks, nervously glancing back at
the receding light of the platform. He slows gradually,
relaxing as escape seems certain.
Down to a walk, he startles at movement in the tunnel ahead:
FLAPPING WINGS - a bird, lost and trapped underground?
The Kid freezes, his frightened BREATHS almost enough to
drown the sound out. It grows, though, more WINGS joining...
He turns to retreat up the tracks, but the WINGS suddenly
seem to be echoing towards him from all directions.
Panicked, the Kid becomes disoriented in the growing RACKET,
the tunnel ahead begins to glow brighter as he spins...
Visible now in the growing light, BLACK SHAPES flicker above
the tracks - dozens becoming hundreds, swelling larger, their
POUNDING wings joined by a train RUMBLING closer...

[Kennerado]

Looks like October release according to IMDB? Also they have a cast list now and NO Vinnie!

Lame!

Joe Sallem is there and Lupino is also there.

Looks like Donal Logue is playing Alex, thats not too bad.

[Unbeholder]

sexy, mark walhbergs best film looks like it, never liked him as actor but perhaps as max ?? it looks like he'll do max proud, if he retains the same Max payne feel like in this poster i think he may make it well, not sure about the voice though, perhaps he changes his voice drastically then it may be ok, we shall see...

[Dunedain]

Good grief, couldn't they get anyone better than marky mark?? We wait all this time for a Max Payne movie and they get some dork like this. Typical of Hollywood, they mess up most movies they make based on good t.v. shows or games.

[JobivanHiob]

You guys have to know that Depth Entertainment is involved in this production. Depth Entertainment is the film-partner company of Radar Group!!!!
They stand for quality!!!

[theHunted]

Originally Posted by JobivanHiob

You guys have to know that Depth Entertainment is involved in this production. Depth Entertainment is the film-partner company of Radar Group!!!!
They stand for quality!!!

We can only guess about the quality at this point. Afaik they didn't release anything yet. I might be wrong though. Doesn't mean that I don't have faith however. It's just that you can be sure that every movie studio will claim to be standing for quality.

@Kennerado: You got a link to the cast list? I'm too stupid to find it on my own. The one thing I'm interested in is who is playing Bravura.

[hiob]

^According to IMDB it's Ludacris.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0467197/

Edit: Oh and Nelly Furtado plays Christa Balder, the "wife of the main character's best friend".

[Damien_Azreal]

Originally Posted by Dunedain

Good grief, couldn't they get anyone better than marky mark?? We wait all this time for a Max Payne movie and they get some dork like this. Typical of Hollywood, they mess up most movies they make based on good t.v. shows or games.

And what's wrong with mark Walberg? Are you just gonna judge by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, or site a few of the films he has done?

Four Brothers and Departed were both very dark, gritty and violent. Shooter was awesome... Mark Walberg can act... very well. I wish people would get over his past exploits in music and just judge based on his films.

[Karthik]

Originally Posted by hiob

^According to IMDB it's Ludacris.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0467197/

Edit: Oh and Nelly Furtado plays Christa Balder, the "wife of the main character's best friend".

Nelly is hot.

[Dunedain]

What, Ludacris is the police chief?? You've *got* to be kidding me... This is exactly the type of idiotic stuff I'm talking about. That's all we need to know about the "quality" of this movie. I bet Payne and Redemption is 3 times as well done as this garbage.

[evanazzo]

Originally Posted by Damien_Azreal

And what's wrong with mark Walberg? Are you just gonna judge by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, or site a few of the films he has done?

Four Brothers and Departed were both very dark, gritty and violent. Shooter was awesome... Mark Walberg can act... very well. I wish people would get over his past exploits in music and just judge based on his films.

I agree. Walberg is great.

[Joe Siegler]

Anyone else have some poster ideas of their own?

This one was done by Jeron here at 3DR internally. Is not official.

[Damien_Azreal]

That ones not bad.

I have no photoshop "skillz" otherwise I'd give it a try... but I will say I would prefer something close to the actual boxart for Max Payne. Nice contrast of black and white, simple yet extremely effective and it grabs your attention.

[Zom-B]

Originally Posted by Damien_Azreal

I would prefer something close to the actual boxart for Max Payne. Nice contrast of black and white, simple yet extremely effective and it grabs your attention.

Something like this?



I know the face is terrible, I couldn't find a decent reference shot of Wahlberg that fitted the poster..

[Walking Alone]

http://pg23.deviantart.com/art/Max-Payne-50950460

[Samji]

This sums up my feelings.

if(jimBravura.actor == "Ludacris" && jimBravura.job == "IA") {
    samjiBoycotts();
}

Just. Why? I see they have cast Beau Bridges, but as Balder. WTH? He would be so much better as Bravura. And since when was Bravura in IA?

[Kennerado]

Donal Logue is Balder. Bridges is BB.

[Samji]

Sorry. That's what I meant. He would be better cast as Bravura though.

[Qtipie]

since i'm back, i might as well complain about the cast. i love mark wahlberg. great actor and all that- but he's not max payne. i can't come up with other suggestions, since i'll always think of sam lake anyway, but i definitely know that mark wahlberg is wrong for this role.

i was hoping for somebody like thomas jane mayhaps, somebody down-and-out, rough and rugged. i'm disappointed and all that's left to do is hope for a decent movie, despite all that. i hope it'll work. it's my favourite franchise, after all.....