Last week, in the U.S. District Court for Utah, retired World Championship Wrestling pro Maxx Payne, filed a USD 10 million lawsuit against the developers of Max Payne the video game.
Payne alleges Rockstar Games, 3D Realms Entertainment, Gathering of Developers and Remedy Entertainment stole his stage-name to create the highly successful game Max Payne.
None of the companies involved have accepted to comment on the litigation.
Maxx Payne also known as Maximum Payne, Max Pain and Lucifer Payne, was born Darryl Peterson. Although retired Peterson has retained some of wrestling's passion for overacted drama, which can be witnessed as he claims, I left wrestling to come home to Utah and be with my family and I find myself in the biggest battle of my life, to save my identity. They stole something from me that I'm not going to give up. I'll fight until there's no fight left.
According to the former wrestler the theft has even more sinister undertones since it is not only the name that was stolen, meanning that the extra X in his name is irrelevant to the litigation. Part of my persona is the film noir look.
The meat of the case however, lies in the data collected by Peterson's lawyer, Blake Atkin, the game has grossed at least USD 400 million on the "Max Payne" concept. They have not paid him anything to use his persona.
damn wrestlers.
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Vympel wrote:What an idiot. Yeah, I'm sure he'll have no problem proving his case. He'll lose this easily.
Seconded.
I hope the Judge calls him a fucking idiot and an asshole to the whole courtroom.
Then i imagine, he'd stand up and tear his suit off down to his undies and boots and fling himself into the centre of the court and say in a gruff testosterone rich voice "I said I'd fight this to the end, that means you too judge!"
Then the judge stands up, tears off his cowl or whatever it's called, and dives from the top of the stand with a dropkick to mr payne. The crowd all scream...etc etc...
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Vympel wrote:What an idiot. Yeah, I'm sure he'll have no problem proving his case. He'll lose this easily.
Seconded.
I hope the Judge calls him a fucking idiot and an asshole to the whole courtroom.
Then i imagine, he'd stand up and tear his suit off down to his undies and boots and fling himself into the centre of the court and say in a gruff testosterone rich voice "I said I'd fight this to the end, that means you too judge!"
Then the judge stands up, tears off his cowl or whatever it's called, and dives from the top of the stand with a dropkick to mr payne. The crowd all scream...etc etc...
ROFL, i'd watch Court TV to see that.
His name was not stolen, nor his personality. Maxx Payne = wrestler from Utah. Max Payne = detective from NY. Not very close, methinks. I hope this gets thrown out, but you never know. Some people will do anything to get money when they can't get it themselves.
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