Synopsis/Details
Max Payne, NYPD Detective, lives a humble police officers life. A wife at home with a new baby, a house in Jersey with a white picket fence to boot. The American dream come true.
Dreams have a nasty habit of turning into nightmares when you aren't looking.
Tragedy strikes his family, his wife and child killed in a home invasion by crazed drug abusers high on a new designer drug.
With nothing left to live for, Max joins the DEA in search of the source of the new designer drug.
Max finds himself on the wrong side of the law, the mafia, and more as he becomes a one man wrecking crew through the streets of New York during one of the worst winter storms on record, determined to find the person responsible for the new drug hitting the streets and, ultimately causing the murders of his wife and child.
*Please note the attached is the pilot of a 10 part season 1. Currently I have written seasons 1-3 in full 1st draft.
Story & Logistics
Story Type:
Revenge
Story Situation:
Crime pursued by vengeance
Story Conclusion:
Bitter-sweet
Linear Structure:
Non-linear
Moral Affections:
Condemnation, Judge
Cast Size:
Several
Locations:
Few
Special Effects:
Aerial image effects, Blood, Bullet time, Weather Simulation
Characters
Lead Role Ages:
Male Middle Aged
Hero Type:
Anti-Hero
Villian Type:
Authority Figure, Corrupted, Criminal, Pure Evil
Advanced
Adaption:
Based on Existing Fiction
Subgenre:
Conspiracy, Detective/Private Eye/Mystery, Film Noir
Subculture:
Dark culture, Gamer, Gangs, Video game culture
Action Elements:
Hand to Hand Combat, Physical Stunts, Pyrotechnics, Weaponry
Drug Topics:
Illegal Drugs
Time Period:
The Nineties (1990–1999)
Country:
United States of America (USA)
Time of Year:
Winter
Illness Topics:
Psychological
Relationship Topics:
Widowhood
Writer Style:
Robert Rodriguez
