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Rockstar: GTA Movie Won't Work

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Koku Gamer writes: 'Rockstar's VP of Creative Dan Houser doesn't believe a GTA movie would work due to the creative limitations of the film industry.'
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Blaze929 - 121 days 3 hours ago
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1 - pfft
even Stevie Wonder could see a GTA movie wouldn't work.
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Raiinstorm81 - 121 days 1 hour ago
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1.1 - LOL right
A GTA movie would be as successful as Final Fantasy Spirits Within

(Advent Children was Awesome it shouldve went to theaters)
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Hellsvacancy - 121 days ago
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1.2 - I disagree
If it had a decent director and a GOOD script-writter then Gta as a movie could work
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whoelse - 120 days 23 hours ago
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I can see loads of people seeing it thanks to the brand name alone.
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morganfell - 120 days 23 hours ago
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Quentin Tarantino telling the story of Niko Bellic or Tommy Vercetti in Vice City (Miami) wouldn't work? You have got to be kidding...
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Blaze929 - 120 days 22 hours ago
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It woudlnt work because GTA isnt something you "watch" in a movie. Imagine GTA4 as a movie, who the hell would watch THAT? The only good GTA I would watch as a movie would be Vice City which itself, is just a spoof of Scarface.
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morganfell - 120 days 21 hours ago
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Well I disagree. Watching Niko Bellic, a man haunted by his past actions being dragged backwards into the kind of life he hoped to escape is an attractive prospect. Niko is good at being violent. But unlike Antonio Montana he doesn't nevessarily take pleasure in that fact. He is the antithesis of a Scarface character.
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aaron5829 - 120 days 12 hours ago
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1.7 - With a good director and script writer you say ?
If i have them, why would i wanna pay rights to Rockstar to produce a GTA movie when i can get my director and script writer to make an entirely new movie ?
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Ziriux - 121 days 2 hours ago
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Yea, not really. I mean if it was based of GTA IV than maybe there could be some kind of awesome plot to it, and Niko would kick a$$. I think Rockstar would be throwing money away if they decide to go with such thing.
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A HiFi - 121 days 2 hours ago
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It could work if based on GTA IV. It's cinematic and has a good story to it. Has anyone seen Behind Enemy Lines? The guy in that looks exactly like Nico, haha. Would be a great casting choice:

http://www.g4g.it/phpnews/i...
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Natsu X FairyTail - 121 days 2 hours ago
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if they make the movie based on the story and not around the Gameplay it could work
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Ziriux - 121 days 2 hours ago
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Well that's certainly what they would do. I mean it is a movie after all not a game.
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ThatArtGuy - 121 days ago
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Tell that to Uwe Boll.
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Wriggy - 121 days 2 hours ago
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A GTA movie could work, if you can get a good cast of actors and make the story line engaging. It's been hard to make a good movie based on a game but if anything GTA could be the first to be done right.
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Ziriux - 121 days 2 hours ago
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If you ask me, all video game movies should be done in CGI, that's the best way to do it without the movie looking cheesy, plus you can put all the fantasy elements into a CGI movie that is usually challenging on a movie with real peeps.
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Buljo - 121 days 2 hours ago
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I've thought about this.. Naah, nothing of this could be made into a movie.
And it should stay that way.
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A HiFi - 121 days 1 hour ago
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Well, I disagree. With a great director and great script, it really could. It would have very little relevance to the game, so if they lift GTA IV's story into there - it could work.

Opening narration from Nico spliced with footage of the Bosnian War and Nico seeing people die and such, Nico meets Roman at Pier, Nico realises it's rubbish in LC too, Nico meets love interest etc.

It really could work actually...
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Wonderfulwest - 121 days 2 hours ago
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6 - Wow
I cant understand how they couldnt see this wouldnt work, how can you make a film about gta lol. Though there have been films about driving about and killing people, Transporter comes to mind. though i predict the film would be none of the charcters we have come to know and love and some jerk of a director would think he could make a re-write. good job nipping this in the bud before a poop storm started
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Ziriux - 121 days 1 hour ago
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Yea it's all up to people really. You'll always have someone disagree with a movie concept such as in this situation, just because a few gamers did not see it fit to make a movie the plans have all been scratched off. While I'm partial on the idea risks must be taken.
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RustInPeace - 121 days 1 hour ago
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I don't think that a GTA movie would work. I mean, look at POSTAL. Its got a funny scene where everyone is shooting at anything/everything, but it's a terrible movie. GTA might have the same outcome.
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A HiFi - 121 days 1 hour ago
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Ah, but that was Uwe Boll...I don't think you can make a comparison. =p Besides...Postal was enjoyable at times, but yes - very mediocre.
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Xeall - 121 days 1 hour ago
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A Gangster movie in a made up world? Name it liberty city and have a few cameos from game characters? Sure it can work, just because huge amounts of violence can be done in the game doesnt mean it has to be done in the film. However you can have stuff like Lazlo on the radio for that perverted twist in a dark world that GTA essientailly is.
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Ziriux - 121 days 1 hour ago
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Yea, everyone is simply forgetting that it could just be a good mafia movie, except based on a Serbian instead of a Italian.
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A HiFi - 121 days 1 hour ago
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The main issue is that they want creative freedom to be able to do things. It's the same as Bungie with Halo. While that failure was apparently internal between Fox/Universal, it still wouldn't have helped that Bungie and Microsoft were wanting to approve everything. That's why MS have gone the anime route, because the production houses are a lot more approachable and work with lots of existing IPs.
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FernandoMartinez - 121 days ago
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lol, why would you make a movie based on a game that is practicaly based on movies... makes no sense at al... the GTA series practicaly "rips off" a bunch of movies... money talks bullshit walks...
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A HiFi - 121 days ago
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Look at AvP...but that's a bad example. =p
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AuRoN89 - 121 days ago
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Agreed.

How the **** can a GTA movie work??

Every 10 sec the car should hit someone, plus, a lot of police death, plus innocent death, plus rocketlauncher on a bounch of pedestrian... THIS is GTA, and THIS can't work on a Movie... even if done with good skills it will fail because criticism will hurt it for sure.
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PirateThom - 121 days ago
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Watch the Godfather, Casino, Scarface... that's pretty much your GTA movies there.
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AuRoN89 - 121 days ago
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naaaa... it's not the same thing (IMHO)
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RustInPeace - 120 days 22 hours ago
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@ Thom
You're pretty much right about that. Those movies are probably the closest they will get to what would be acceptable as GTA. And even if you tried splicing all the good parts of those movies together, it would probably come out all haphazard, which film critics and, more importantly, the GTA fans would despise.
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A HiFi - 120 days 22 hours ago
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I still believe that if you get the right collection of people to work on it who are willing to work closely with Rockstar, then it'll be a success. Maybe not a masterpiece, but a critical and commerical success.
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Rocket Sauce - 120 days 15 hours ago
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Don't forget Boyz n the Hood. A GTA movie wouldn't work, because that'd require them to be original.

The stories in these games take a huuuge backseat to blowing stuff up, so I think a movie is a pretty bad idea anyway.
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SlaughterMeister - 120 days 13 hours ago
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13 - Wouldn't work..
If they made GTA movie it would just end up as a generic action/crime-drama that happens to be called "Grand Theft Auto."

If they were to use one of the lead characters of the games as inspiration for a film, it might work, but a GTA movie would be totally pointless. Especially considering the fact that it's called Grand Theft Auto, but the movie obviously wouldn't be based around the idea of carjacking. It'd be a badly-named Scarface rip off.
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RustInPeace - 118 days 15 hours ago
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Now that I think about it, isn't there an old movie, with no relation, already called "Grand Theft Auto"?
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