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He's been back on our screens recently, reuniting with writer/director Jeymes Samuel for Biblical comedy drama The Book Of Clarence, but Lakeith Stanfield has his eye on something quite different. He's now joining forces with Transformers producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura to develop and potentially star in a film adaptation of neo-noir vampire video game El Paso, Elsewhere.

The game, developed and published by Strange Scaffold in September last year, has become a success, and takes its inspiration from the Max Payne games, with retro graphics. It follows a vampire hunter tasked with stopping his ex-girlfriend's (a vampire! Sound the irony klaxon!) evil schemes.

You want an official logline for the movie version? Step right up: "Recovering from a toxic relationship, James Savage (Stanfield) confronts both his inner demons and enigmatic ex-girlfriend, Janet, before she executes a world-ending ritual. James navigates her reality-bending universe of ethereal monsters while facing the...

James McCaffrey, the voice actor of video game character Max Payne and the haunting presence of the hit FX drama Rescue Me, died Sunday of multiple myeloma cancer. He was 65.

His death was confirmed to Deadline by his manager, who noted that the actor passed away peacefully surrounded by family and friends.

Born in Albany, New Yor, McCaffrey got his breakthrough in a recurring role on the 1991-93 the TV legal drama series Civil Wars, and in 1996 was hired by Dick Wolfe for the series Swift Justice. McCaffrey would become something of a protege under Wolfe, appearing over the years in many of Wolfe’s series including Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Law & Order: Criminal Intent, among others.

McCaffrey trained at the Actor’s Studio and over the course of a 35-year career would be a regular presence on episodic TV, with appearances on Viper, Sex and the City,...

Producer Scott Faye of Collision Entertainment has teamed up with Firm Films head Julie Yorn to turn Max Payne, the action video game franchise, into a feature film for 20th Century Fox. Karen Lauder of Abandon Entertainment will executive produce, with Faye and Yorn producing. Fox exec Robbie Brenner will oversee the project for the studio. Released on PC in July 2001 and later that fall on Xbox and PlayStation 2, Max Payne tells the story of a New York cop whose wife and baby are killed by thugs high on a designer drug called Valkyr. Devastated, the cop joins the Drug Enforcement Agency and goes undercover with the mob to find the source of the drug. Framed for the murder of his partner and hunted down by both the mob and the police, he is forced to wage a one-man war against crime. The game's intricate film noir story, which involves government cover-ups, the Mafia and a city crippled by the century's worst blizzard, is told through comic book-style storyboards.