The sensational studio Rockstar Games this month was again in the headlines of all game publications. Fans of the cult series of games Grand Theft Auto The last part of the game on the PC, appointed on April 14, is looking forward to the release of the last part of the game, and in the meantime, the BBC producers decided to remove a one and a half hour drama about the founders of the studio-the brothers Sam and Dan Hausers. "Gambling" decided to figure out what is known about the upcoming premiere, and to figure out whether it was worth waiting for her.
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The fact that the British media corporation intends to make a film about the Rockstar Games studio became known in March. A month later, on April 8, Hollywood Reporter journalists published an interview with Daniel Radcliffe, who shared his plans for filming about filming in the BBC tape with the working name Grand Theft Auto "(Now the drama is called GameChanger ). The actor, still trying to get rid of the image of a wizard boy adhering to him, must play the role of Sam Hauser-developer, as well as the president and co-founder Rockstar Games.
► similarities, of course, are not the most obvious.
The film is based on real events from the life of Hausers at the beginning of the two thousandth. Separate publications even hurried to characterize the work as a documentary, not paying attention to some contradiction: in this situation, it would be logical to give the main role to an unknown actor, but Sam Hauser himself, from whom the official confirmation of participation in the project has not yet been received at all. Which, by the way, is not at all surprising. All interviews with the developer can be recalculated on the fingers, there are almost no photos on the network, and in general, Sam Hauser does not rotate Sam Hauser.
According to some journalists, his secrecy is explained by the desire not to personify his merits in achieving an incredible success known to the whole game – which, by the way, was quite quite possible. Not so many fans connect a series with a specific creator. Not that, say, in the case of the founder of Valve Gabe Newell, who is tightly associated with the universe Half-Life.
Nevertheless, the role of this person in the creation Grand Theft Auto Great, as well as its influence on the formation and development of the genre. So who is this Sam Hauser?
► Photos of Sam Hauser on the Web are very few. Here it is, on the left. And on the right is his brother Dan.
Sam and his brother Dan were born in the early 1970s in London in the family of lawyer Walter Hauser and actress Geraldina Moffat (" Remove the crankcase "," For love "And other films). Both studied at Cambridge, started working in England, then moved to the USA. In 1998, the brothers and several more developers united in the Rockstar Games studio.
It was Sam Hauser who conceived and implemented the transfer of the Euphoria Wins sister sites world GTA In three measurements. Starting with GTA 3 He became an executive producer of all new parts of the series, as well as games Manhunt And Max Payne. Despite his desire for secrecy (he did not even indicate his name in the credits), the press still got to the bottom of who was behind one of the best games in history, and in 2009 the Time magazine placed the brothers in his list of “100 most influential people in the world” (Then the world did not yet know about GTA 5).
But back to the film. According to the unofficial data that Hollywood Reporter has, the plot will be based on the book of David Kushnir Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto (In an approximate translation – "The history of the lawless cases of the great hijacker"). The book was published in April 2012, and it tells about the way to the success of two developers, their innovations in the field of the game industry and the millions of honestly earned by them. But the leitmotif of the work was everything related to the lawsuit of lawyer Jack Thompson and Rockstar Games.
► Cover of the book David Kushnir.
Thompson accused the studio of idealizing violence, incitement to crimes, as well as promoting sexual and racial discrimination. The reason was a loud murder in Ohio in 2003: 16-year-old Dustin Lynch, accused of the death of 17-year-old Merl Mishn, was, according to Thompson, obsessed with Thompson GTA 3. The cruel nature of the crime really caused a scene from the game in his memory: the guy scored the victim to his death with a leg from the bed, and then stole the car of the girl, in which the police found him. But, as it turned out later, Thompson pursued his own goals and persuaded his parents to adhere to such a version.
► Jack Thompson – lawyer opposing violence in games.
Later, the lawyer nominated for Rockstar Games, Sony and Take-Two Interactive (the motherly company Rockstar Games) a similar claim of $ 246 million-on behalf of two guys accused of murder by negligence. Teenagers, according to Thompson, were also inspired by a fierce game. However, the court did not satisfy this lawsuit.
The activist did not calm down and engaged in this kind of Sutyazhniki until 2008, traveling to different states and trying to arrange local law enforcement officers – until he was deprived of a lawyer license. By the way, about GTA 5 Thompson already in 2013 spoke very unpleasantly, however, this time not as a representative of the injured side, but in correspondence with Gamezone magazine (as far as we know, the Thompson license was not restored).
The book also mentions a scandal around the addition Hot Coffee (discovered in GTA: San Andreas program code, thanks to which you could openly have sex). Then many large retail chains refused to sell the games of the series GTA , And the company had to change the rating of the game with “Mature) to“ ADULTS Only). Later Rockstar released the corrected version, returning the rating "M". But, as they say, the sediment remained.
Guy Koker, one of the consultants of the film, wrote on Twitter: “Another about the film GTA that I work on: it will be a 90-minute drama that tells about the creators of the game”.
All these scandals and trials can turn into an excellent, in places even an action -packed tape, unless, of course, they are mentioned at all. So, one of the consultants and screenwriter of the film Guy Cocker in an interview with Games Beat said that the picture will talk about creating a series GTA , but on the details he chose not to stop. No plot details of the BBC.
Most likely, the official premiere will only be held in the UK on the BBC 2 TV channel. Nothing is known about the date, but it is likely that the picture will be released this fall-simultaneously with the start of the BBC educational program, Make It Digital. As part of this project, media corporation will shoot several educational television programs and films about successful developers, hoping to increase the interest of British schoolchildren in programming. The start of filming is scheduled for April 20.
► What is curious, the Make It Digital program is primarily for adolescents 12-14 years old.
The director, screenwriter and producers of the film have not the richest track record and mainly participated in the BBC projects. So, the final version of the script was written by James Wood, who previously worked on the series " Ambassadors "(2013)," " Blinds "(2010-2012) and" Monk "(2010 – present). Jim Spencer will perform the producer (" Street dances 3D "," Monsters "). The producer will be Mark Hedzhko (" Challenger "," Voyager: Flight outside the solar system "," The last days of dinosaurs "). Director Owen Harris worked on separate series of Sevil, famous for the domestic audience " Garbage "(In another translation -" bad "), as well as over the series" Black mirror ".
► Daniel Radcliffe has recently been starred in not quite mass cinema (“horns”, “kill your loved ones”).
Despite the absence of large stars – with the exception of Daniel Radcliffe – and that potential performers of other roles are not yet known, the very idea of the project is quite promising. After all, this is in some way a unique genre decision. In the games, films have been putting on more than twenty years, and and documentaries about how they created Street Fighter or transferred tetris to Gameboy, you will not surprise anyone. But the artistic tapes, which were based on real events from the game industry, still look.