Payday: The Movie

[Fish Salad]

Anything? Any hints? Any confirmations or cancellations?

[Seal]

I doubt it'll be made by Overkill, but, if it is, I hope Dolis finally gets his medic bag.

You can always rewatch the official trailers, though.



Pssst, kid, I found these:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OnXtk-9jWI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQTQVXmoSPE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGrmIXdnUmI

[Fish Salad]

there were trailers? for a MOVIE? like, a theatrical/made for tv movie?

[Sunday Driver]

Those "trailers" when you watch the fan edits put together is something like an hour long. I loved those. I wish they never stopped making them.

[Zero [HU][VR]]

Originally posted by NUK3D:

there were trailers? for a MOVIE? like, a theatrical/made for tv movie?

No, these are trailers for DLCs.

[B〄F Altonator]

If there is a payday movie i want the plot to be that Bo is on the run from police forces after stealing millions from starbreeze.
He eventually puts together a group of misfits and names his new crew the payday gang.
Their ultimate heist is to steal the legendary flashbang that repeatedly explodes.

[Sunday Driver]

There is clearly genuine potential in a Payday movie concept as the trailers were great fun and gave an idea of what could be done.

[Thermal Lance]

Originally posted by B〄F Altonator:

If there is a payday movie i want the plot to be that Bo is on the run from police forces after stealing millions from starbreeze.
He eventually puts together a group of misfits and names his new crew the payday gang.
Their ultimate heist is to steal the legendary flashbang that repeatedly explodes.

Amen to that.

[Zero [HU][VR]]

Originally posted by Hoxilicious:

There is clearly genuine potential in a Payday movie concept as the trailers were great fun and gave an idea of what could be done.

Eh, not really. It would probably go down the route of Max Payne or Hitman.
When a game is nothing but movie cliches, it can work just fine. It's a game, it's interactive, we don't mind the cliches because we do them.
But when a game built of movie cliches get turned back into a movie... that's just a painfully cliched movie without any redempting qualities. As other video game movies showed us already, countless times.

[Sunday Driver]

Payday has done better than these other ones as they never really had a cinematic tradition to work from, while Payday does have some foundation. The genre of heist movie is also one which would be very acceptable to work within certain cliches. They also have the option of non-bricks and motor releases these days.

[Zero [HU][VR]]

Originally posted by Hoxilicious:

Payday has done better than these other ones as they never really had a cinematic tradition to work from

You can't be serious. Max Payne the game is every John Woo action movie ever, with a dash of Matrix.
But this whole discussion is moot, as Overbreeze's least priority is now to make a movie.

[Major Tom]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_(1995_film)

[Jostabeere]

Ge Charlto in here. He'll go straight to XXV with a bag of coke.

[Fish Salad]

I want a more comedic John Wick-style movie that follows the Baldwin's Lament storyline, from Overdrill to White House Secret.

[Sunday Driver]

Originally posted by NUK3D:

I want a more comedic John Wick-style movie that follows the Baldwin's Lament storyline, from Overdrill to White House Secret.

Could be good. There's a precedent of comedy heist movies.

[Infinite Thwomp Works]

Originally posted by Zero HUVR:

Originally posted by Hoxilicious:

Payday has done better than these other ones as they never really had a cinematic tradition to work from

You can't be serious. Max Payne the game is every John Woo action movie ever, with a dash of Matrix.
But this whole discussion is moot, as Overbreeze's least priority is now to make a movie.

While true, they could sell the IP's film rights to a third party. We seem to be in the middle of a resurgence of 90s-style video game movies after all, and Payday is reasonably popular, likely enough so that someone would bite. Hell, if they get cash up front it might knock a few million from their debts.

I'm still not convinced that the movie crossover thing wasn't an attempt to eventually pitch a Payday movie to Universal, Warner Bros, or Lionsgate, to be honest. Getting cozy with Hollywood in the hopes of having a foot in the door or a friend in a high enough place to pitch a film based on their IP. If I remember right, didn't Almir say that Overkill wasn't being paid for the crossovers? That could explain why (though it might just have been that they thought the crossovers would provide enough publicity that they'd make up for it in game sales, I dunno)