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ProductionCharts is reporting that the movie based on the Max Payne games will begin filming in Toronto on March 2, 2008, and wrap up on May 9, 2008.  According to the Internet Movie Database, it’s scheduled to be released in American theaters on October 18, 2008.

The film adaptation is being directed by John Moore, best known for his work on movies Behind Enemy Lines and Flight of the Phoenix, which flopped like dying birds slowly being pulled into Hell by the Devil. 

The script will be penned by Beau Thorne who is best known, as far as the IMDB is concerned, nothing, making his career much like an out-of-the-way river, about to be polluted by the refuse of game-to-movie adaptations.

Probably the best news so far is that it stars Mark Wahlberg, who is best known for playing that really pissed off cop in The Departed, oh, and that whole previous music career thing.  I suspect his performance as Payne will be a force to be reckoned with, like watching a washed-up pop star go berserk and shoot Matt Damon in the head.

Fun as that may be, however, this seems so far like yet another run-of-the-mill game-to-movie, much like a blog post, awkwardly trying to make fun of Max Payne‘s melodramatic metaphors.

Read [Production Weekly]  Also Read [IMDB]