At what point did it become a good idea to turn video games into movies? Sure, there's the undeniable camp and hilarious awfulness of Super Mario Bros. and Double Dragon. But as Alone in the Dark and even the Resident Evil series have shown us, it's that video games belong in the virtually interactive world, not the silver screen. That isn't stopping Hollywood from capitalizing on hit video game franchises. The latest news comes from the set of Max Payne and /Film has the set pics to show for it.
The video game's convoluted story line of framed-for-murder title character making right where once went wrong played second fiddle to the game's use of guns-blazing bullet time, which was all the rage after The Matrix. The Mark Wahlberg-starring film version is also likely to have a focus on action rather than coherent story telling, at least that's what the set pics of a crushed cop car might lead us to believe. The film is directed by John Moore, who brought us the ever spinning camera in Behind Enemy Lines and the boring The Omen (2006). His latest soon-to-be forgotten Max Payne is slated for an October release date by IMDB.
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At what point did it become a good idea to turn video games into movies? Sure, there's the undeniable camp and hilarious awfulness of Super Mario Bros. and Double Dragon. But as Alone in the Dark and even the Resident Evil series have shown us, it's that video games belong in the virtually interactive world, not the silver screen. That isn't stopping Hollywood from capitalizing on hit video game franchises. The latest news comes from the set of Max Payne and /Film has the set pics to show for it.
