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Grand Theft Auto (2016)

Grand Theft Auto
Grand Theft Auto
Biography
Drama

Release Date
2017-00-00
Director
Owen Harris
Main Genre
Biography
Studio
BBC Films

Summary

Daniel Radcliffe is in negotiations to star in Grand Theft Auto, a true-life account of a fight between the creator of Grand Theft Auto and a Miami lawyer who wanted to ban video game violence. Radcliffe will play Sam Houser, the British co-founder and president of Rockstar Games, the company behind GTA as well as games such as Max Payne and Red Dead. He is credited in popularizing GTA into one of the video game world’s biggest franchises but also amping up the violence quotient.

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