You may recall - through the use of your mind/memory - that a month or so ago, the BBC announced it was developing a BBC2 drama based upon the creation of Grand Theft Auto - which the BBC overstated to be “arguably the greatest British coding success story since Bletchley Park” (defeating the Nazis vs creating a top-down, 8-bit-style racing game? No contest).
The show is still in development, but Harry Potter star Daniel "The Cocker Spaniel" Radcliffe is rumoured to be the frontrunner to portray Sam Houser, founder of Rockstar Games.
However, members of the GTA team have now gone on record to express their concern over the project, stating that nobody at the BBC has even bothered speaking with them to get their take.
The show is still in development, but Harry Potter star Daniel "The Cocker Spaniel" Radcliffe is rumoured to be the frontrunner to portray Sam Houser, founder of Rockstar Games.
However, members of the GTA team have now gone on record to express their concern over the project, stating that nobody at the BBC has even bothered speaking with them to get their take.
Speaking to GamesRadar, DMA Design's Steve Hammond - part of the original GTA team - howled; "I find it quite telling that no-one from DMA I’ve spoken to so far seems to know anything about it. With Rockstar’s famous reticence to talk to anyone, that makes the only behind the scenes source David Kushner’s book Jacked, which frankly has me a bit worried.”
Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto, tells the alleged story of the 1997 creation of the original GTA. However, Hammond isn't sold on the authenticity of the book either.
He borched: “Some of the DMA people had a large Facebook chat about it and my favourite quote was 'Well, they got the fact of GTA’s existence correct'."
Brian Baglow, another member of the original GTA team, flailed: "I'm assuming it may well be based on a grab bag of archive materials, old interviews, maybe David Kushner's exciting novelisation and the screenwriters' ideas of what it's like to work in the white heat of cutting edge game development. It's fair to say we're all fairly nervous about that…”
The full story - referring to GTA's four-year development "slog" - is over at GamesRadar.
Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto, tells the alleged story of the 1997 creation of the original GTA. However, Hammond isn't sold on the authenticity of the book either.
He borched: “Some of the DMA people had a large Facebook chat about it and my favourite quote was 'Well, they got the fact of GTA’s existence correct'."
Brian Baglow, another member of the original GTA team, flailed: "I'm assuming it may well be based on a grab bag of archive materials, old interviews, maybe David Kushner's exciting novelisation and the screenwriters' ideas of what it's like to work in the white heat of cutting edge game development. It's fair to say we're all fairly nervous about that…”
The full story - referring to GTA's four-year development "slog" - is over at GamesRadar.
INSINCERE DAVE SAYS: "Wow!?!!!! It sounds like the creation of GTA is quite the story!!!!!!! There's no doubt that a bunch of guys sitting around at computers, typing in numbers and testing unfinished code for bugs, is going to make for great television!!!?!!!!?? Talk about drama?!!! If they're gonna make this, then maybe now someone will buy my TV pilot about a man drying his hair - with a towel!!!!!!!!??"
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