Until today, many popular games of the game world such as Uncharted, Hitman, Tekken and Assassin’s Creed have been adapted to the movie world. While the number of adaptations kept increasing, of course there was the following question in mind: Why hasn’t GTA been a movie yet?
The answer to this question has emerged today. Moreover, the answer was given directly on behalf of the founders of Rockstar, the developer company of GTA. According to the information shared, such a project was already created, but was rejected.
$5 million budget, starring Eminem, directed by Tony Scott. What else?
The name that voiced the possibility of GTA being a movie was Kirk Ewing, a close friend of Rockstar Games founders Sam and Dan Houser. Ewing shared some details of the film project on his podcast “Bugzy Malone’s Grandest Game”.
According to the information shared by Ewing, a Hollywood name called Ewing to make a GTA movie and made an offer. Moreover, this offer was presented in the early 2000s, after the third game of the GTA series, GTA III.
This unnamed Hollywood person suggested world-renowned rap artist Eminem for the lead role and Top Gun director Tony Scott for its director. These two names were at the top of their world in 2001 when the offer was presented. In other words, the movie could have been a movie that would shake the whole world with only its names if it came out. The budget of the movie was also worth a fortune for that period: 5 million dollars.
But the offer was rejected:
Ewing shared that he forwarded this proposal to Sam, which came to him by calling him at 4:00 in the night. Calling Sam, Ewing’s response was as follows:
“I am not interested.”
So why was the movie offer rejected?
Ewing shared that at this stage, Sam and Dan were aware that GTA was much more valuable as a game series than any movie of that period. So Sam and Dan actually saw the movie as really unnecessary for the series.
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