Daniel Radcliffe (Photo : Reuters)
Danielle Radcliffe, best known for his role in the "Harry Potter" franchise, is set to star in a BBC film about the popular game "Grand Theft Auto" (GTA).
Radcliffe will be playing the role of Sam Houser, the co-founder of the said game, and it will be a 90-minute drama. The movie is entitled "Game Changer" and it will be based on the book published in 2012 called "Jacked: The Outlaw Story Of Grand Theft Auto," The Independent reported.
The film is to celebrate the success of the controversial computer game and it will show the "British gaming geniuses" called Rockstar as to how they came up with one of the best games ever created.
In an interview with Telegraph, BBC shared that the "Game Changer" will be for adult audiences only as it will be about how players are allowed to act like criminals. The game allows players to gun down anyone such as fellow gangsters and cops and it gives the patriots of the game a feel of the American "gangland."
BBC added that the flick will be revealing what the major impacts are caused by the game to the cultural background of the players. Kim Shillinglaw, the controller of BBC Two, where the film will be aired, also shared that the actors taking part of the flick are grown up, opinionated, and entertaining.
Another actor to take part of the film is Bill Paxton and he will play the role of Jack Thompson. Thompson is a campaigning lawyer from Florida who wanted to stop the rise of "GTA" and prove that there is a link between the violence in the United States due to the nature of the game. The lawyer was disbarred in 2008 but still attempted to sue Rockstar because of the game.
Rockstar will not be involved with the movie production as BBC shared that the developers of GTA expressed their concern regarding the possibility of an exaggerated story of how the game was made and developed.
