The co-founder and former head writer for Rockstar Games Dan Houser has said that there was interest in making films based on Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption. 

Speaking to The Ankler – via GamesIndustry.biz – the industry veteran said that he'd had a number of conversations with film execs about turning the company's crown jewel IPs into movies. Houser says he didn't understand the point of such a venture. 

"After a few awkward dates, we’d ask [the executives], why would we do this?” he said; the execs in question would say it was an opportunity to partner on this kind of a project. 

"No, what you've described is you making a movie and us having no control and taking a huge risk that we’re going to end up paying for with something that belongs to us," Houser continued. 

“They thought we’d be blinded by the lights and that just wasn't the case. We had what we considered to be multi-billion-dollar IP, and the economics never made sense. The risk never made sense. In those days, the perception was that games made poor-quality movies.”