A brand new report claims that Rockstar Video games beforehand rejected a proposal for a Grand Theft Auto film starring Eminem. Again in 2013, Rockstar co-founder Dan Home revealed that the studio had obtained a number of affords for a GTA film through the years however nothing appealed to him. In line with video games business veteran Kirk Ewing, who occurs to be associates with the Houser brothers, High Gun director Tony Scott was concerned in one of many rejected proposals.
Rockstar co-founder “not ” in Grand Theft Auto film
Talking on the BBC podcast Bugzy Malone’s Grandest Recreation, Ewing revealed that the dialog a few GTA film befell across the similar time Eminem had wrapped up filming 8 Mile (2002). The rapper was already having fun with large success following the discharge of The Marshall Mathers LP two years prior. Ewing recalled obtained a cellphone name from an LA producer who requested, “‘Kirk we’ve obtained Eminem to star, and it’s a Tony Scott movie – $5m on the nostril. Are you ?’”
Ewing known as up Sam Houser to inform him about Eminem and Tony Scott’s involvement. His response? A agency “no.” Ewing believes that the Houser brothers “realized that the media franchise that that they had was greater than any film that was occurring on the time.”
