It seems that lately it has become fashionable to produce video game adaptations in the form of series or feature films, an example that years ago was about to follow the Grand Theft Auto saga with his own moviebut Sam Houser, from Rockstar Games, was not convinced by the idea and the project never came to fruition.
This has been confessed by Kirk Ewing on the Bugzy Malone’s Grandes Game podcast on BBC Sounds, who is a friend of the Houser brothers and has been involved in this whole story. During the program he has affirmed that, if it had come true, the film would have starred rapper Eminem.
For its part, the management would have been in charge tony scott (Top Gun) and would have had a budget of five million to carry it out. All this at a time when the launch of Grand Theft Auto III was very recent and the saga was becoming more and more popular all over the world, hence the desire to give it a push in other fields.
Ewing contacted Sam Houser about this possibility, but the latter was very blunt in declaring that he was not interested. Therefore, the conversation did not go any further and this film was never heard from again, especially since Ewing has claimed that it was then that the Houser brothers realized that the franchise at hand was bigger than anything else. film that could be produced.
You never know if sooner or later the situation could turn around and Rockstar Games suddenly decide to change its mind, but to this day it does not seem that something like that is going to happen. In the meantime, the company is going ahead with the development of GTA 6 without neglecting the weekly updates of GTA Online.