Daniel Radcliffe could play Grand Theft Auto developer in BBC special
Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe is reportedly in negotiations to play the lead role in a new 90-minute BBC drama about the creation of seminal video game franchise Grand Theft Auto. Radcliffe is set to play Sam Houser, the co-founder of Rockstar Games, dramatizing his clashes with anti-gaming activist and now-disbarred attorney Jack Thompson over what Thompson argued were unacceptable levels of violence in video games.
The one-off special, currently named Grand Theft Auto, is based on a book by David Kushner. Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto focuses on the characters of Houser and Thompson as it follows the development of the wildly successful Grand Theft Auto series, first by the Scottish DMA Design, and later by…
Source:: The Verge
