After the release of GTA III, Rockstar Games would have had an interesting offer to bring the popular story to the big screen, in which Eminem and Tony Scott were involved. However, the game’s co-creator, Sam Houser, decided to turn it down. Read more here!
The already long list of video games that had their adaptations to the screen (both big and small) could be a little more extensive if it had not been for sam houserthe co-creator of Grand Theft Auto. Can you imagine a movie gta? Well, back in 2002 this idea was sounding very strong in Rockstar Gamesand they thought eminen to star in it now tony scott (director of top gun) to direct it.
In the podcast of the BBC Bugzy Malone’s Greatest Game, kirk ewing He said that after the launch of the GTA III (2001), received an interesting offer to make a movie about the popular and successful game. Who Ewing? A video game industry veteran who worked for VIS Entertainment as director of Earthworm Jim 3D (1998), HEDZ (1999) and State of Emergency (2002) and a close friend of the brothers Houserco-founders of Rockstar Games and creators of the saga Grand Theft Auto.
“It was right after Grand Theft Auto III. And I think at that time, I was still in the mind of Sam (houser) the idea that it might be okay to do something yes. I remember getting a call around four in the morning to hear an offer from a producer in Los Angeles. He told me: ‘kirkwe have Eminem to star in and it would be a movie tony scott. Five million budget, are you interested?’”, counted Ewing on the podcast.
After this, the veteran of the video game industry called Houser to tell him about the offer, but it seems that the co-creator of the saga gta It didn’t catch his attention that much and he said he wasn’t interested. “They must have realized that the franchise was bigger than any movie at the time and they withdrew from all talk of possible adaptations.”counted Ewing.
After this, the rapper Eminem ended up starring 8 miles in 2002, while tony scott continued his career with man on fire (2004), Agent Orange (2004), Domino (2005), Deja vu (2006), among several others.
After that rejection of the film, there was no talk of an adaptation of the film again. gtaas explained Ewing. Despite its great success over the years, there is still no film or series based on it. Grand Theft Auto of rock star. However, the closest the saga came to the big screen was with The Gamechangersa 2015 installment of the BBC.
Starring Daniel Radcliffe What sam houserthis British film depicts the creation of gta, its controversies, and the various attempts to halt production of the games. Own rock star tried to stop the film and filed a lawsuit against the BBC for copyright infringement, which was dismissed.
When the film was released, the own account of Rockstar Games tweeted: “What exactly is this randomly invented nonsense?”