Source: Variety

Max Payne hits the silver screen…played by Mark Walhberg? After years of delay, the super dark tale of Mr. Payne will finally be told in a feature film. The movie will apparently follow the story of the first game and Marky Mark may play the part of a cop haunted by the death of his family and menaced by an unknown organization.

Seriously, I’m actually pretty stoked for this one. After hearing the horrific news that Timothy Olyphant (ya, I never heard of him either) was gonna play everyones favorite Hitman, my hope for any video game turned movie being any good was all but dead, but I really enjoyed the cinematic feel of the Max Payne games. Not to mention they really were awesome to play, and I’ve always thought if any game could be a great movie, this has got to be one of them.

Read on, if you dare, after the jump!

The king of the funky bunch has done some awesome work of late (The Departed), and I think this movie may really pull video game movies out of the cesspool where they currently reside. If this movie is a box office success, perhaps future game movies will not put second rate unknown actors in games we all loved. Granted Hitman has not been released yet, but I for one have little faith it’ll do the series justice.

Oh, and not getting the Marky Mark and Funky Bunch references? Jeez I’m getting old…our good friend Walhberg has come a long way from the white rapping joke that was Marky Mark And The Funky Bunch…circa 1991.

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