According to Kirk Ewing, an agent and co-founder of virtual avatar app Veemee, a late-night chat with former Rockstar boss Sam Houser nearly led to the multi-grammy-winning rapper starring in a movie based on the franchise. Speaking on Bugzy Malone’s Grandest Game podcast, Ewing recalled: “Because of the relationship I had with Rockstar and I had with Sam, I tracked him down in his hotel room one night where I knew he was going to be staying for a while. , and we both stayed up late and talked about possibly making a movie. “That was right after Grand Theft Auto 3. And I think at that point, it was still in Sam’s mind that it might be something he wanted to do.”
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He continued: “I remember getting a call at about 4 in the morning from one of the producers in LA with an offer to do a movie and he said, ‘Kirk, we’ve got Eminem in it and it’s a Tony Scott movie, five million in the nose, it interests you;”. “And I called Sam and said, ‘Look, you’ve got to hear this. They want Eminem in the Grand Theft Auto movie and Tony Scott to direct.” And he said, “I’m not interested.” “At that point, they withdrew from any discussion of making a movie when they realized that the media franchise they had was bigger than any movie that was being made at the time.” While rumors have persisted over the years about a possible Grand Theft Auto movie, nothing has ever come to fruition. Gamechangers, a 2015 film about the making of GTA itself, was produced by the BBC and starred Daniel Radcliffe as Sam Houser. Take-Two Interactive tried to stop production of the film by suing the BBC for copyright infringement, but was unsuccessful. The day after the film aired on the BBC, Rockstar’s official Twitter channel asked: “BBC, has Basil Brush been busy? What exactly are these random, made-up bolts?’
