In the early 2000s Tony Scott tried to make a Grand Theft Auto Movie.
It would have had Eminem as the main character. Just him directing would have been awesome.
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shareI found it by looking up unrealized Tony Scott projects but if you google Tony Scott Grand Theft Auto movie you'll find several articles about it.
shareI looked up the source articles and they contain a lot of secondhand information about Scott's involvement. No one committed to the project, and the rights were not even secured from the game publisher. As nice as it is to imagine, this is one of those projects that never got past initial talks.
My guess is that producers had a couple meetings/calls with Scott, who expressed enough interest for them to turn it around and use his name when requesting the rights from publisher Rockstar who bounced it. One of many instances in film production where nothing materialized.
Yeah I guess I phrased that wrong, I should have said "In the early 2000s a Tony Scott Grand Theft Auto movie was attempted.
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