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Max Payneis one of the few video game franchises that suffered a terrible fate when adapted into a motion picture film. The star power of Mark Wahlberg couldn’t save the movie from the backlash of the gaming community and the harsh reviews of the critics. Released a few years ago, it was a time when most video game adaptations were poorly made and failed to capture the game’s core leading to a poor reception from fans and critics alike.
Scott Miller, a producer of the video game franchise felt disappointed with the adaptation released in 2008. Despite the mess, he thinks the game deserves a second chance in Hollywood.
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Alan Wake 2director Sam Lake is seenspreading his wings as he establishes connectionsand friendships with other great visionaries. The director came out swinging with his latest project and proved he is a master of storytelling and has a unique understanding of how certain characters could work in a different medium.
Scott Miller firmly believes anotherMax Payneadaptationshould be handled by those who worked on the gamesand bring them on board as consultants. Collaborating with the people who worked on the source material is one way to guarantee a project’s authenticity, and to avoid deviating from the original script like what Fox did years ago that led to the film’s awful outcome.
When the Max Payne film was released and I saw it day one in 2008, I was instantly disappointed and super upset
Miller wrote a long and heartfelt tweet about his feelings once he saw the film on release day.
The story had changed dramatically from the original script we sold to FOX. The issue was that the film’s director revised the script such that it no longer resembled the game’s story
The executives of Fox must have grown ambitious and thought they could improve the provided script. Unfortunately, Hollywood had to learn the hard way and allowed a great video game franchise to suffer for its recklessness.
I think current Hollywood has reached a point of getting things right more often than not, so they’d likely be able to do Max Payne right if they tried again
Present video game adaptations have overcome the curse of being poorly adapted.The Last of Uswas a success on HBO because the showrunner was a fan and brought in the original creator, something the filmmakers ofMax Paynedidn’t bother doing years ago.
And brought in people like me and Sam Lake as consultants.
The director is the face model of the titular character and was crucial to the development of earlier games.
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Together, Miller and Lake could bring justice to aMax Paynefilm. Hollywood is starting to understand how to properly adapt these franchises without tarnishing the legacy of the source material.
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Lake is a great visionary and oftenfinds inspiration in other great games. Perhaps he can make something work for a full-length motion picture.
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Filmmakers and video game developers have a different array of understanding. Not everything can be faithfully adapted for several reasons; however, some might work with Lake and Miller’s input.
Miller was right to express his disappointment and his words must be heeded if another attempt would be made. He handed the filmmakers a script that they did not follow and inadvertently lost the film’s core.
Remedy Entertainment is gaining momentum at an unprecedented rate. Perhaps balancing between video games and movies could be the right approach for the company.
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Rouvin Josef Quirimit
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Piqued by his interest in superheroes during the early days of Marvel movies, Rouvin fell in a rabbit hole of pop culture. His passion for movies led to video games and he fell in love with God of War, The Last of Us, Uncharted, Red Dead Redemption, and more great single-player games that paved the way for his career as a gaming writer.
