New Max Payne Trailer Comes with Fightin’ Words for The Dark Knight

Posted by Neil Miller (neil@filmschoolrejects.com) on August 29, 2008

Yahoo has debuted a brand new trailer for the upcoming video game adaptation Max Payne this afternoon, but first, some news you can use. In an interview with MTV, Payne star Mark Wahlberg jokingly issued a challenge to the man at the center of the second highest grossing film of all-time, The Dark Knight. This from the interview:

“Take off the suit and if you want to go one-on-one, two-on-one, and put a couple of you guys together - they all like to put the comic book characters together - come at me,” Mark Wahlberg laughed, issuing a challenge to the Dark Knight to put his fighting skills where his mouth is and face off against his character, Max Payne. “I’m not talking about financial box office, I’m talking about one-on-one with these (puts up fists).”

Of course, while his jovial tone and obvious sarcasm may have some brushing off Wahlberg’s comments, we here at FSR believe it to be important that we take all threats against our favorite superheros seriously. That said, we think Batman, or more specifically Christian Bale, would kick the shit out of Wahlberg’s Payne. We would present some sort of scientific proof, but that won’t be necessary — Batman is just that much of a badass. As for Max Payne though, he seems to be doing alright for himself, as you can see clearly in the trailer below.

Max Payne is in theaters October 24th.

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