The success of GTA III would have been the cause to launch this project.
Today we are seeing how movies and video game series are common, while some of these adaptations have been nominated for the GOTY of The Game Awards with their own category. However, this it’s not really new, since in the past some video games made their leap to the big or small screen. The difference with those of now is that, in the vast majority of cases, they were disastrous products.
Under this premise, recently it has been possible to know a new case of a movie based on video games at the beginning of the present century, when the idea of making a GTA film starring Eminem and directed by Tony Scott, who is best known for having been the director of Top Gun. And all this has been affirmed by Kirk Ewing, co-founder of Veemee.
All this happened after the release of GTA III
As Ewing himself stated on Bugzy Malone’s Grandest Game podcast, a late-night conversation with Sam Houser, who was once the head of Rockstar almost caused Eminen to star in this movie, being so that Ewing himself went to his habituation to chat. It should be noted that he affirms that this was just after the launch of GTA III, that is, after one of the biggest hits the studio has ever had.
Ewing continues by saying that he received an offer from producers in Los Angeles, confirming both the name of the leading actor and the director, and it didn’t take him long to tell Houser. However, the opinion of the former manager was quite clear, since he stated that he was not interested in the project.
It should be noted that, despite the fact that today making a film about a product is an immediate yes in most cases, the answer was logicsince it is necessary to understand that at that time video games were destroyed in the cinema, being even spots on their records. If not, tell Super Mario.