The gritty third-person shooter wowed gamers with its grim aesthetic and groundbreaking storyline. You know the whole "fighting his way up from the underworld" thing? GONE.Remedy Entertainment set the gaming world on fire with 2001's Max Payne. Oh, and outside of the script - casting Ludacris as Bravura, WTF? And another cop who plays the best-friend-betrayal twist.
Then, the whole thing adds this element to the plot about tattoos of black wings and crafts a series of "X person walks down dark alley, wings surround her" horror scenes. Mona? She's in the very beginning of the script and has a COMPLETELY different role.Īlfred? The guy with the eyepatch who serves as Max's key into the shit that goes down? GONE. You know those great noir one-liners that set the game apart? NOT ONE makes it into this. Nothing even CLOSE to it happens until page 55, the midpoint. Remember the basic premise of the game? Cop as fugitive? GONE. It is, essentially, an ENTIRELY different movie with characters who have the same names. I read a lot of adaptations and - hands down, this one was the WORST. Screenshot of Max Payne and Mona Sax from the video game. Fox has already set an October 17th release date for this as well. Max Payne is currently shooting in Toronto. I really don't want this to become this year's Hitman, but I think it's already got some great things going for it - Wahlberg and Kunis to say the least. I'm holding out and still hoping Max Payne will be a good movie that captures the darker elements of the game. I'm worried that the script isn't anything too amazing, but hopefully director John Moore ( Behind Enemy Lines, Flight of the Phoenix, The Omen) finds the better elements of it to bring to life. Fenton ( Striking Point, Saw IV), but all other articles only mention Beau Thorne - who doesn't have any previous writing credits. IMDb says the script for this was written by Thomas H.
I'm very glad she mentions that because that element of the story is exactly what made the game so great! Not that it was so depressing, but rather that the mood of this guy is that he has lost everything, like Frank Castle (The Punisher), but in the end his revenge doesn't him anywhere. And comes to terms with realizing that he'll never get it back." 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. The story actually combines Max Payne 1 and 2 together. " The whole film is about realizing that you can go on a revenge spree and get your revenge but it doesn't solve the problem. They kind of get together and try to figure out who was responsible for the murder of his wife and child and her sister." "I play called Mona Sax who accuses him of murdering her sister and later comes to find out it wasn't him. "For anyone who's got concerns about Mark playing Max Payne, he's amazing in it. We'll let Mila explain the character more herself, in addition to heaping copious amounts of praise on Wahlberg and the film. She is a trained assassin who is out to avenge her sister's death and gets caught up in Max's investigation as well. Mona Sax is a character who, while not Max's wife, is his tragic love interest. Max Payne is about a DEA agent whose family was slain as part of a conspiracy he ends up getting involved in a gang war that's taking place within New York's criminal underground. Empire caught up with Mila over the weekend and talked with her about the shoot. Beyond that, the lovely "That '70s Show" star Mila Kunis was also cast in it as Mona Sax. I love the guy and I can't wait to see his take on Payne. Anything Wahlberg touches is usually solid gold, even Shooter. What topped it all off was casting Mark Wahlberg as Max. The game could definitely lend itself to an incredible movie, if done right. When I first heard that Max Payne was (finally) being turned into a movie, I nearly kicked down a door with excitement.
Great story, great graphics, great action and gameplay. Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne - one of the greatest video games I have ever played.