Grand Theft Auto Movie Will Never Happen

By Josh Tyler: 2008-06-20 01:41:25

When anything is hugely popular, Hollywood immediately pounces on it to make a movie out of it. That’s no secret. So why haven’t we heard anything about plans to make a movie out of Grand Theft Auto? The latest version GTA IV sold ten bajillion copies. That’s movie money just waiting to be stuffed in some Hollywood executive’s pocket.

Nikki Finke thinks she has the answer. In her latest column she claims it’s because Fox Atomic owns the rights to make a movie called Grand Theft Auto… only the movie they own the rights to has nothing to do with the videogame, but is based on a 1977 Roger Corman pic. I’m not entirely sure how that prevents a GTA movie from happening, I mean couldn’t they just rename it? Here’s a suggestion: What about calling it GTA? But Nikki insists this is the problem, and since we’ve heard no word of a movie I suppose it’s as good a guess as any.

If that’s the problem, then I have a solution: Why doesn’t Fox Atomic make a GTA movie? It’s not like they’ve got anything else happening over there that people want to see.

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matty dee
June 20, 2008 at 13:53

What needs to happen is for someone to just write a treatment and say, "Here, how can you deny this?" They should take for more than just stealing cars and shooting innocents. They should take GTA III, Vice City, and GTA IV, and write it into a SIN CITY-esque script. Three stories, all tie in. All in Liberty City. It would be tits.

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Pete H.
June 20, 2008 at 13:52

I love the games but I just don't see any appeal in turning them into movies. I mean, they'd make money because of the brand name but you're essentially writing just a random gangster story from scratch.

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