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Eminem was successful request aft the merchandise of his 2001 Marshall Mathers LP
Rockstar Games turned down the accidental to motorboat a Grand Theft Auto movie starring Eminem, a caller podcast claims.
Games manufacture seasoned Kirk Ewing, a person of GTA creators Sam and Dan Houser, says a Hollywood cause came to him with the deal.
He says the brothers were offered $5m for rights to a movie starring the rapper by Top Gun manager Tony Scott.
But, Kirk tells BBC podcast Bugzy Malone's Grandest Game, Sam Houser told the cause they were "not interested".
Kirk, whose crippled State of Emergency was released by Rockstar, says the Housers had been talking astir a movie tie-in astir the clip GTA 3 took the satellite by storm.
Released successful 2001 connected Playstation 2, the pioneering rubric laid the groundwork for the remainder of the bid and the imitators that would follow.
In the aforesaid year, Eminem was flying precocious disconnected the backmost of his record-breaking Marshall Mathers LP.
He had besides conscionable wrapped shooting connected his starring relation successful 8 Mile - a semi-biographical movie loosely based connected his aboriginal steps into rap.
'Are you interested?'
Kirk tells the podcast helium tracked Sam Houser to a hotel, wherever the 2 stayed up precocious to sermon the anticipation of making a GTA movie.
"I deliberation astatine that constituent it was inactive successful Sam's caput that it mightiness beryllium thing that helium wanted to do," Kirk says.
He says helium was phoned astatine 04:00 by an LA shaper with an offer.
Kirk recalls: "He said 'Kirk we've got Eminem to star, and it's a Tony Scott movie - $5m connected the nose. Are you interested?'
"And I phoned up Sam and I said 'Listen to this. They privation Eminem successful the Grand Theft Auto movie and Tony Scott to direct'.
"And helium said: 'Not interested'."
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Image caption,GTA 3 follow-up Vice City was successful specified request that radical queued astatine midnight to beryllium the archetypal to bargain it
And that is the past time, arsenic acold arsenic Kirk is aware, that either member discussed GTA coming to the metallic screen.
"They realised that the media franchise that they had was bigger than immoderate movie that was going connected astatine the time," Kirk says.
GTA has gone connected to go a taste juggernaut and successful 2018 was declared the most profitable amusement merchandise of each time.
That includes record-breaking movies similar Avatar.
The workplace yet confirmed this twelvemonth that GTA VI was successful improvement - and Rockstar's suggested gamers could beryllium playing it by 2024 oregon 2025.
It's insisted a leak of aboriginal footage from the crippled successful September won't impact the semipermanent plans for the title.
Rockstar and its genitor institution Take Two Interactive haven't responded to Newsbeat's petition for comment.
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Image caption,Samuel L Jackson - who won an grant for his show - appeared successful sequel GTA: San Andreas
Although the satellite ne'er saw a Grand Theft Auto movie, A-list stars person queued up to articulation the expansive dependable formed of GTA3's sequels.
Actors Samuel L Jackson and Ray Liotta and comedians Ricky Gervais and Frankie Boyle person appeared successful antithetic instalments of the series.
And Eminem has popped up connected the game's celebrated soundtrack - arsenic a impermanent prima connected a Dr Dre way recorded for a GTA Online enlargement pack.
Bugzy Malone's Grandest Game, fronted by the UK rapper and GTA fan, charts the past and controversies of the smash deed open-world series.
Listen connected BBC Sounds here.
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