Rockstar reportedly turned down a proposal of $5 million for the rights to make a GTA film starring Eminem and directed by High Gun’s Tony Scott, it has been revealed, however the developer was “not .”
Talking on the Bugzy Malone’s Grandest Sport podcast for the BBC, trade veteran and pal of Rockstar founders Sam and Dan Houser, Kirk Ewing, has claimed that the brothers had been “not ” in a proposal for a GTA tie-in film across the time Grand Theft Auto 3 was launched.
Rockstar wasn’t “” in a GTA film from High Gun director Tony Scott
In response to Ewing, the thought of a GTA tie-in film had been spoken about by the Houser brothers round 2003 when GTA 3 launched on the PlayStation 2, which was the identical time as Eminem’s Marshall Mathers LP was killing it within the charts. As if the timing could not have been any higher, the rapper had simply completed taking pictures 8 Mile, so he would have been in an excellent place to tackle the undertaking.
“I feel at that time, it was nonetheless in Sam’s thoughts that it is likely to be one thing that he needed to do,” Kirk mentioned on the podcast. After monitoring Dan Houser to a resort, the pair apparently stayed up late discussing the potential for a GTA film, and at 4am, an LA producer referred to as them with a proposal for the rights to make the film. “He mentioned ‘Kirk, we have got Eminem to star, and it is a Tony Scott movie — $5 million on the nostril. Are you ?'” Ewing mentioned. “I phoned up Sam and I mentioned ‘Take heed to this. They need Eminem within the Grand Theft Auto film and Tony Scott to direct,’ and he mentioned: ‘Not .'”
So far as Ewing is conscious, that is the final time Sam and Dan Houser mentioned a film tie-in. “They realised that the media franchise that they’d was greater than any film that was occurring on the time,” Kirk concluded.
Ewing was proper — the Grand Theft Auto sequence has gone on to change into probably the most worthwhile franchises in media, spawning a slew of sequels and spin-offs which have led to the world now ready on any details about GTA 6. In Take-Two’s current earnings name, the corporate’s CEO mentioned that the current GTA 6 leak will not have an effect on the sport’s improvement, so we cannot want to attend any longer than the workforce wants till we are able to play it — not that we knew when it might launch anyway.
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