She’s cute, she’s tiny, and now she’s gonna kill shit with Mark Wahlberg.
On the surface, Mila Kunis may not be ideal casting for a badass femme assassin tracking the murderer of her sister, but after her phenomenally appealing performance in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, I’m convinced she can do anything. Seriously. Lady MacBeth, Hedda Gabler, Willie Loman… this girl’s got versatility for days. So why not the hit-woman sidekick/enemy/love interest of Mark Wahlberg’s Max Payne in… er, Max Payne?
Adapted from the Rockstar video game, the John Moore-directed film revolves around a conspiracy uncovered by Payne whilst investigating a string of murders (it happens). That’s kinda murky, but that’s all we’ve got to go on, kids. I assume that Payne’s tragic backstory – his family is dead – will figure into Beau Thorne’s screenplay; what better way to bond with Mila’s character than over drinks and remembrances of deceased loved ones? I’ve never played the video games, so if I’m missing out on certain narrative nuances, please forgive me.
Max Payne is currently shooting up in the Great White North, and should be ready for an October 17, 2008 release. Julie Silverman and Scott Faye are producing, while 20th Century Fox will distribute (wonder if they’ll go the R-rated route like they did for Hitman; my guess is they’d like to do better than a paltry $40 million domestic with this film – though the presence of an actual movie star in Wahlberg might help their cause… and lower Timothy Olyphant’s going rate). If you were wondering whether or not it would rain in the film, find your answer below (courtesy of DarkZero.com).
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I guess I can now say I'm literally jacking-off to Beaks'articles.
Max Payne the game was hypernoir before hypernoir was cool. It's probably closest to Sin City, which is a problem, because somebody already made the Sin City movie as I recall.
It's a pretty damn good game, but the story is a lot of style and only some substance – I'm not sure there's a movie there (at least, not without a lot of rewrites/new material).
SPOILERS: The basic conspiracy revolves around a drug called Valkyr – it's a super-soldier drug leaked onto the street (possibly on purpose as a field test) – Max's wife is a DA who has uncovered the secret program and is murdered along with their baby (this is the core of all the disturbing dream sequences throughout the game). There's a devil worshipping subplot and plenty of euro-trash badguys to soak up the bullets.
END SPOILERS: But like most movies based on games it'll be really surprising if they stick to the actual story of the game.
I hope Mila can ditch the squeaky Jackie-Voice from That 70's Show…
Max Payne was so "Sin City-like" that they even re-used the soundrack from Max Payne 2 (Electric Noir Boogaloo) for the film version of Sin City.
Despite it's gimmicky use of Bullet time game play both Max Payne games were adeqatly fun and moody, and even featured a level in the second game that was a tounge in cheek homage to modern neo-noir shows like Twin Peaks, Picket Fences, and even the atrocious Wild Palms.
Despite that, I'm not sold on a movie version being all that interesting unless they really go overboard with the tropes of the genre. Lastly, I would hate to say it, but I think Mark's brother Donnie would be better suited for the role. He ruled in Band of Brothers.
NKOTB sucked it though….
Where do you guys get all these awesome pics of hot actresses? I don't read much Maxim so maybe that's the answer. In any case, keep up the good work!
Hey Joe, ever heard of Google? Literally the very VERY first picture of Mila Kunis is the one in this article….
wait. max payne is an homage vg to john woo shooter (the killer, hard boiled,etc). they're now making homages out of homages (see Stranglehold and Scarface games). I can't wait for the game of the move based on the game based on a movie.
I'd buy that for a dollar.
Both Max Payne games were created by Remedy Entertainment. Rockstar is just the publisher. That's like calling Half-Life 2 an EA game or a World of Fucking Warcraft a Vivendi game.
I wanna fuck her, again.
I've always thought Mila Kunis was hot as hell, but she's so tiny. She is was too short to be threatening in any way. Not that a movie about a game that is nothing but a gushing homage to other movies was going to be good in the first place.
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