According to Variety, actor Mark Wahlberg is in negotiation talks with Twentieth Century Fox to take the lead role of Max Payne for the live-action adaptation of the Remedy/Take Two video game. John Moore, known for action movies such as "Behind Enemy Lines" and "Flight of the Phoenix," has been tagged as the director. May Payne is a DEA agent framed for the murder of a fellow agent and finds himself in the middle of a mob war, giving him a chance to avenge the Mafia slayings of his wife and child.
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Max Payne
Platform(s): Game Boy Advance, PC, PlayStation 2, Xbox
Genre: Action
Publisher: Gathering of Developers
Developer: Remedy Entertainment
Release Date: July 23, 2001 (US), July 27, 2001 (EU)
Genre: Action
Publisher: Gathering of Developers
Developer: Remedy Entertainment
Release Date: July 23, 2001 (US), July 27, 2001 (EU)
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Mark Wahlberg Starring as 'Max Payne'
by Rainier on Nov. 9, 2007 @ 6:06 a.m. PST
Max Payne chronicles a lone man's nightmarish journey to the darkest depths of the criminal underworld in order to avenge the murders of his loved ones and make sense of a twisting web of betrayal and conspiracy.blog comments powered by Disqus