Max Payne Movie
So the new Max Payne trailer has been released. And im really excited for this, for a change. This film for all intensive purposes was dead. The original release date was slated for last year, and even when things were set rolling, an October release, to me, looked doubtful.
Now im a huge fan of the games, without any hint of being fake, they ARE my favourite games ever. Sam Lake’s writing is so intoxicating, to add to Remedy’s impressive gameplay. When i first heard the film was coming out, i baulked at the idea. To have played the games, is to have been immersed in a movie allready. I did perk up when Walhberg was announced, although slightly withdrew with a (to me) unknown director.First impressions from the trailer, i love it. Obviously they were going to have to change some of the details from the games, i was nervous reading IMDB cast list, with Bravura being black, no Vlad, no Woden etc, to add to a host of made-up characters. Although Horne and BB Hensley are in there.Alot of the games plot is about dealing with his demons, alot of norse mythology as well in there, which i think explains the angels/demons (slight constantine simillarities there). Another theory i read was the idea of the Valkyr trip bringing on images of angels/demons, which could hold weight. Max’s trips along the bloodlines, following the sound of his baby crying, could have been difficult to implement on film.
Now im a huge fan of the games, without any hint of being fake, they ARE my favourite games ever. Sam Lake’s writing is so intoxicating, to add to Remedy’s impressive gameplay. When i first heard the film was coming out, i baulked at the idea. To have played the games, is to have been immersed in a movie allready. I did perk up when Walhberg was announced, although slightly withdrew with a (to me) unknown director.First impressions from the trailer, i love it. Obviously they were going to have to change some of the details from the games, i was nervous reading IMDB cast list, with Bravura being black, no Vlad, no Woden etc, to add to a host of made-up characters. Although Horne and BB Hensley are in there.Alot of the games plot is about dealing with his demons, alot of norse mythology as well in there, which i think explains the angels/demons (slight constantine simillarities there). Another theory i read was the idea of the Valkyr trip bringing on images of angels/demons, which could hold weight. Max’s trips along the bloodlines, following the sound of his baby crying, could have been difficult to implement on film.
Also these quotes from the games could give some meaning to the images presented in the trailer. Either its coincidence, or the screenplay writer / director are very clever, in their interpretation of the games script.
The Brooklyn riverfront was a maze of rusty containers, sharp-boned cranes looking up from the snowstorm. On a night like this you couldn’t help but think of the dark army of dead men, sleeping with the fishes, cement shoes in line. No minotaur lurked in this labyrinth, but somewhere out there, on the clanking deck of his cargo freighter, the skipper of the Charon was waiting, like the ferryman of the river Styx.
I don’t know about angels, but it’s fear that gives men wings.
I thinks its interesting the direction theyve gone. The visuals and cinematography are spot on, really dark. The script we’ll have to see, alot of the characters have changed from the game, as well as the film being an amalgomation of the two Games.As long as they stick the main story of his revenge for his wife, His partner Alex, and going after Horne and Valkyr, ill be happy.
P.S: Haha, just noticed in the trailer, the nite club is called Raglan and Brock ( instead of Ragnarock) lolhttp://www.firstshowing.net/2008/07/11/six-new-badass-max-payne-promo-photos/
Thank you