@jaronimo: Seconded. I loved the first RE film, despite it's many flaws. Hated the second, though, and never saw the third.

ShaggE

@Frequen-Z: hey, come on! resident evil was not so bad. i for one enjoyed the first two flicks (havent seen the third one)

jaronimo

the first Mortal Kombat was pretty enjoyable though

Flashfire

Bloodrayne, Hitman, Doom, Resident Evil, Tomb Raider.

All films based on games, all utter disappointments.
You GTA lovers should be happy it's not being made into a film. You never know, Uwe Boll could end up getting it, we all know how horrific his video game films are.

Frequen-Z

I love you Tommy Vercetti!
CJ, Don't be a busta!
Kill all the Haitians!
Niko, My Cousin!

Yeah, Honestly, GTA's never really been known for taking itself too seriously in the storyline department.

Scuba Steve

@Mesren_Makai:

OH GOD THE HORROR!

That would be the kind of movie that you show someone to get them to talk during an interrogation. :D

jello44

GTA would make a terribad movie so im glad they cant make one. Pretty much all game to movie suck and hollywood should stop trying to make them.

Akiraa20

Even if for some reason Fox didn't want to cash in on making a Grand Theft Auto movie that doesn't mean Rockstar can't just make a movie and simply call it "GTA"

I'm willing to bet Rockstar just doesn't want to make a GTA movie.

Absent Blue

Good.

Seriously, would anyone actually go see Eminem in a GTA movie? If so, they are the fuel to crappy empty summerflicks.

What could make it any worse?

COMMERCIAL-VOICE-GUY - A touching film with Eminem....filmed by Michael Bay.

...Okay, it COULD get worse.

Mesren_Makai

Oh no, now Fox can't make a shitty game made based on their movie, or a shitty movie based on Rockstar's game. Woe is me. How could this have turned out any worse?

Kokatu

IMDB database: Movie name- GTA IV- Movie length-455 hours

xoforoct

Couldn't they just call the movie "GTA"? I'm sure it's become one of those ubiquitous acronyms that means the same to everyone (everyone not living in Toronto).

Kyattsuai

Well then they can shoot it digitally. What's the hold up here?

dowingba

@Grimmjow Jeagerjaques:

Agree to that. Last thing we need is for Eminem to crawl back from whatever rock he came out from again.

jello44

@Raften:

Say that to GTA [GAME] Sales :D

kumuasata

@CurryZombie:

Dammit, no CG Ron Howard? That's it, Rockstar jumped the shark.

KirkDouglas

@FishyJoe:

Because they wouldn't be making the most money in the deal

IF WE FOX DOESN'T MAKE THE MOST MONEY, NO ONE MAKES MONEY!

Raften

Fox: Fucking rockstar since the beggining of times.

Bugged?

Eminem!!! Pfft!!

Grimmjow Jeagerjaques

Well thanks to this movie there will never be a true GTA game adaption I hope they are happy they just HAD to have this name.

CurryZombie

@GodzillaVsJapan:

Oh well. Id prefer my GTA IV anyways. What about a short animated (cgi-wise) series. Gotta love loop holes.

kumuasata

Now if they'd just do the same for Crazy Taxi.....

supercrap

I'm sure if a big enough check is written, the impossible becomes possible. Why would Fox turn money down?

FishyJoe

@BlinkinPark182: +1

InsidiousTuna

"...a settlement prohibits Rockstar from making a movie based on Grand Theft Auto, which is the same name as a 1977 film whose rights are owned by Fox."

THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS.

BlinkinPark182

"settlement prohibits Rockstar from making a movie based on Grand Theft Auto, which is the same name as a 1977 film whose rights are owned by Fox. The settlement also prohibits Fox from making any video game based on that movie." who do you think got the better deal? lol

GodzillaVsJapan

"Grand Theft Auto" was directed by Ron Howard?
Why was I not informed of this years ago?!

Angryrider

@jaronimo: i hated the third one. didnt care much for the second one, but loved the first for some reason.

smuckersisgood

Maybe if we're lucky this will mean that there will never, ever be a GTA movie.

Hey, a guy can dream can't he?

stranger

Only good adoption of a game to movie was the first Mortal Kombat, which makes it remembered for what it did then the game itself :-/

Raften

@jaronimo: Ah ok, I'll admit they were not so bad, but I'll be in my stone cold rock hard grave before I admit Doom was anything but mind numbing.

Frequen-Z

@mcx: Actually it would more accurately be "Niko and Friends: Bowling Adventures in Liberty City"

Altima NEO

Whats to stop Rockstar from making a movie simply called "GTA"

Altima NEO

@Frequen-Z:

Yeah really... I'm relieved. :D

Vidril

What about a movie called "Niko's Adventures in Liberty City".

mcx

Do you really want Uwe Boll to make a GTA movie? Cause you know that's who would direct it, lol. GTA follows a story, but alot of the character is developed by the player. I really think the Grand Theft Auto series is better off because of this restraint.

willparry79

Ha ha I actually have this movie it's maybe worth renting if you are bored.

Mrobinson587

Good news there but in all the movie game I've seen DOOM is the worst ever...It not even close to doom serious...the storyline is totally in a different universe or something, all they have is just the setting on mars and some of the creatures look like there from doom and that about it..Mortal kombat movies should of been more hardcore fatality like the game and RE movie ain't that bad and I thought silent hill was good...Hitman was good in my eyes but I never really played the game so I can't say it was a good movie game and I will never ever try to watch the DOA movie that went straight to dvd...you would have to point a gun at my head to force me to watch that piece of crap any day

DespisedMC

I am reasonably sure Rockstar can come up with an insane title for a GTA based move and an even more insane scheme to promote it. After all, this is the age of internet connectivity, one patch later and the billboards are up inside Liberty city.

Asbestos_Underwear

The movie can't be very good if it's anything like the game.

Metal_Slug_Solid

I have to say, having thought 8 Mile was a new version of Karate Kid (and was phenomenal), I think Eminem would be perfect for a GTA movie.

Strangelove

Ah, finally. Someone smart enough to foresee the future and keep movies and video games separate. Not all, but most cases of games into movies or vice versa ends up not doing justice for the other. This is for the best. Enjoy GTA the game, not the movie.

emuc64

Yo, it needs to be said as someone who works in Hollywood:

Nikki Finke is a crazy crazy crazy crazy woman. She has no ethics as a journalist and she will print anything that the studio mouthpiece she shills for (Sony) tells her.

The veracity of anything this woman prints should be questioned...

Pay_Me_Or_Pay_Me_No_Attention

Grand Theft Auto with Ron Howard is pretty awful, but just wacky enough to be worth watching. I just saw it for the first time a few days ago. It's sort of like a sanitized version of Deathrace 2000 (and even has the same guy playing the reporter). Ron and his girlfriend attempt to elope to Las Vegas in a Rolls Royce stolen from her rich dad, while being chased by both the media, and her father's henchmen, and also a bunch of nutballs chasing a ransom offered by a rich suitor. Directed by Roger Corman (who also did Deathrace 2000), so there you go. It's the kind of movie that only could have been made in the 70s.

mr.dandy

We need some Uwe Boll action for this movie.

Talleh

imagine Tarantino doing a movie based on Vice City

Bluetribal

When GTAIII came out, I was working in a Game store in England and the company bundled the software with the DVD version of Grand Theft Auto.

Even if the film and game are unrelated, Game and others have been tying them together for years.

Kiriphii

It's not like the words "Grand Theft Auto" actually feature heavily in the games. What's to stop them releasing a movie called "Liberty City Stories"? Everyone would know what it was about, you wouldn't have to call it Grand Theft Auto. But your words imply that they cannot even make a movie of the game regardless of the title. Is that even possible?

MrLister

It's just as well. I personally think most games should just remain games, unless the storyline is good enough to be worth making a movie.

Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name.

can't fox just make another movie called grand theft auto?

SofaKingHI

there are plenty of movies with the same name - there are plenty of cross-platform products with the same name. This story seems really odd.

mangajunky

Watch the Price is right logo and you will similarities. Watch the movie "The Legend" because looks just like any Legend of Zelda video game.

sladee

Considering all the GTA games have different plots, and all those plots heavily borrow from movies, even attempt to be movies we've all seen, what exactly would a GTA movie even entail? It would be a disaster used to cash in on the GTA name. It's a good thing it's not made.

keyrat

Meh. I've seen the GTA movie. I've seen several, actually. They were just called different things at different times, i.e.:

Heat, Eastern Promises, Boyz N the Hood, Donnie Brasco, The Departed, Mean Streets, Goodfellas, Reservoir Dogs, White Heat, Carlito's Way, Scarface, Pulp Fiction, New Jack City, and etc. etc. etc.

At the moment, I think I can do without another one, thankyouverymuch.

JustThisGuy

@Altima NEO: That was my first thought. If they The Grand Theft Auto Video video game people simply called the movie 'GTA' everyone would know what it was about and avoid that movie rights issue easily (sorry Torontonians)

Mohrdikai

Eminem...
Ugh

I hope they never make a GTA movie cos I see them making it all 'gangsta'. 8 mile was good, and I bought into Eminem in that movie but I find it difficult to believe he could act as anything but a rapper. Besides, the British who work on GTA have taken all the american crime stereotypes from movies (Scarface, Godfather etc) so you could say the game already has plenty of movies anyway

MIKO

Am I the only one who thought they had photoshopped an American Graffiti poster in the left of the picture?

Alien426

Am I the only one who things Rockstar is getting the better end of this deal? It protects them from having to compete in the market against a potential rival game franchise with a legal claim to the GTA name. Imagine if the settlement didn't exist and Fox released an ERSB Teen-rated car chase/demolition derby game based on the seventies movie...they'd sell millions of copies to consumers too dumb to know it wasn't a "real" GTA game (I bet thousands of hardcore gamers would get it for Christmas from clueless relatives!). While Rockstar seem to be "sacrificing" the ability to make a GTA movie in the process, it's really all about avoiding the confusion and potential for mutual exploitation that could come from having two identically-named products in the same market). A lot of people don't know this, but Anheuser-Busch license the "Budweiser" name from a Czech company which has made a beer called Budweiser that was available in Europe long before A-B was founded. In Europe, the two Budweisers share the market and there's little confusion (largely because of how Anheuser-Bush has market their product as synonymous with America); here, the European beer is sold as Czechvar. But if there were two completely different Budweisers on sale in the U.S., all hell would break loose at retail, and the same would go with two GTA franchises.

Johnny_Clueless

The only way I could fathom watching a movie based upon the GTA games is if they set it in Vice City, cast Samuel L Jackson as Lance Vance, and force him to say "The Lance Vance Dance."

scottieb2

LOL... A PG rated GTA game..

kickassy

Odd that the movie cover looks more like a video game and the video game cover looks more like a movie.

dowingba

they can also do something like "Niko's story, a GTA film" you know. whatever, blah blah.

chuckbb

@Kyattsuai: ultimately, yes I think they could do just that. there might be legal battles around it, but yeah I think they would come out on top.

chuckbb

Just use the acronym. You don't have to say what it stands for, so its no huge deal. GTA != Grand Theft Auto.

Loop-holes and shenanigans.

r0xx1t

You know, I was thinking "Wow an old crappy movie," Then I saw the little thing up top "Directed by Ron Howard." And now I must see the movie.

Karlott

Directed by Ron Howard really doesn't say much for this movie, it's pretty bad. I saw it on AMC at like 3am one night; Ron Howard runs off with a rich girl in her daddy's Rolls Royce and the whole country is looking for them as they drive to Las Vegas...

Alright I'll just say it, it's awful.

Merwenn

Do we really need a GTA movie? I mean the games pretty are already movies only more fun than watching a movie because you decide what car to jack and how many innocents you kill along the way to the next plot point

ArmyofJuan

@ArmyofJuan:

"Do we really need a GTA movie? I mean the games pretty are already movies only more fun than watching a movie because you decide what car to jack and how many innocents you kill along the way to the next plot point?"

And somewhere on this Earth, another Jack Thompson is born.

Poochy

Nothing is stopping Fox from making another movie named "Grand Theft Auto". Since the Grand Theft Auto games all have different stories, characters and to some degree locations, Fox could make their own Grand Theft Auto movie in the same style as the Grand Theft Auto games but without any licensed characters. That's a big win for Fox. Now if they can just get Uwe Boll involved $$$$$!

grangerfx

@Poochy: wow, you took that and totally went in the wrong direction. i said that because in the game there are pedestrians right? And by being a pedestrian and not involved with the main character i deem them as innocents. SO by you driving around Liberty City/Vice City/San Andreas and running over RANDOM people who are NOT involved with the story and just WALKING AROUND i consider that killing "innocent" people since thats your fucking objective.

But you win, i am jack thompson re-incarnate. If only i could get the 20 some hours invested into GTAIV back.

ArmyofJuan

@ArmyofJuan: "wow, you took that and totally went in the wrong direction. i said that because in the game there are pedestrians right? And by being a pedestrian and not involved with the main character i deem them as innocents. SO by you driving around Liberty City/Vice City/San Andreas and running over RANDOM people who are NOT involved with the story and just WALKING AROUND i consider that killing "innocent" people since thats your fucking objective."

And you took what I wrote and went in the wrong direction.
What I meant was that the very existence of people like you who comment on how fun it is to play a video game where you kill innocents is what GIVES BIRTH TO PEOPLE LIKE JACK THOMPSON. He THRIVES on commenters who not only play the GTA series but actually express how fun it is to jack cars and kill innocent people.

And honestly, I think he has every right to scared of people like you, and to act on that fear. The world can do without Rockstar's shitty games where, as you yourself put it, the objective is to kill innocent people.

Poochy

@Poochy: I never said the objective was to kill those people but it happens. I don't have the patience to stop at every single in game traffic light so i can be a nice little ol gang member that lets people cross the street and helps them with their groceries. Did i mention the fact that im a fucking gangster? I did realise i needed to check my moral fucking compass when im playing a game whos so purpose is kill people and blow shit up.

I guess i also forgot that videogames are supposed to be an escape from reality where we can pretend we're different people doing things we would never ever do. Isnt that why we play these games? Im sorry they havnt made games based upon the adventures of Pope John Paul III so you and all your saintly friends can get together and see if you can ordain a new saint.

You do realise they make movies about this same stuff right? Like Casino, Goodfellas, Scareface, The Godfather etc etc. Do you choose not to watch those? Because, going by your standards, i would assume that just by WATCHING these movies im becoming some sort of menace to society because of the simple fact that these movies are ENTERTAINING to watch. Or should i be watching these movies cowering in fear thinking of what crazed people might see these films and then go wreak havoc upon the world.

ArmyofJuan