Starting its
new video game blog off with a bang,
Variety reports that last spring a
Grand Theft Auto movie was almost ready to roll into full production. The story goes that after years of trying, some studio actually navigated the bureaucracy of Take-Two/Rockstar and was ready to start production -- "quite possibly" with Eminem as the star. The reason this even came to be after so many years of stonewalling by
GTA's rights holders is that current Take-Two chair, Strauss Zelnick, comes from traditional media at BMG music and 20th Century Fox.
Variety goes on to say that the movie was so close to being finalized that its own reporters were prepping stories, with sources at Take-Two saying it was a done deal. At the last moment though, the whole thing fell allegedly apart after the publisher couldn't finalize terms with the studio. Whether it was an issue about money or giving away the movie rights (Rockstar is very protective of its brand) is still an unanswered question. Oh well, we've gotten used to movies based on modern mega-franchise games
falling apart.
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This seriously sounds like a terrible idea and it would have probably left another ugly carcase on the long list of bad game to film translations.
I mean, GTA barely has a story. It's just a bunch of go from point A to point B missions. With some horrible gunplay thrown in-between.
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That's exactly what happened.
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Or maybe he's just trying to fill the hip-hop niche left by Biggie, Pun, The Fat Boys, Sir Mix-A-Lot, and Heavy D...
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Like Ducktales on the NES =)
We could reference every video game ever made...
Better yet:
Uwe Boll's History of Video Games: Part 1
Crank.
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It's sort of the inverse of Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game. Whereas that was game -> movie -> game, this would be movie -> game -> movie.
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I'll never get tired of dropping his name...
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"We take one dangerous criminal with nothing to lose and turn him loose on one major city."
They'd have to take steps to ensure that he didn't leave the city, gps implant or something, but it would definitely be less dangerous and better for peoples' souls than American Idol.
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1 & 2 (haven't played san andreas) all had good plots, great writing, cross and double cross, love stories, memorable characters, plus loads of random weird stuff thrown in.
Plus most of the voice acting was done by real actors who could be drafted in to be in the movies. Even if they were basically just massive collections of homages and riffs on existing movies... that doesn't mean that approach wouldn't work for a movie.
PS/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076100/
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It doesn't take that much to make a crime movie. Al Pacino has done, like, a million of them. It's not like trying to translate Ico, or Final Fantasy, or Tetris into a film. So, while hardcore fans would have been angry by the lack of stars in the corner of the screen, or how the vehicles are REAL cars and not unlicences facsimiles, but in my mind it had more chance of being good than say...Crazy Taxi?
Fernando: Your effort at presenting a good comics-based-game was noble. However, I think Duck Tales was a Disney cartoon. For good comic-to-games examples see the Capcom fighting games, Maximum Carnage, or Batman Forever(almost gotcha with that last one!) Pero, puede ser que me equivoque. Eso pasa!
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It could have been worse they could have cast DMX
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