Bill Paxton Could Join GTA Drama

Bill Paxton is in negotiations to star opposite Daniel Radcliffe in BBC Films’ Grand Theft Auto.  But it won’t be a live-action adaptation.  Rather it’ll tell  the true-life account of the fight between the creator of the popular Grand Theft Auto video game series and a Miami lawyer who wanted to ban video game violence.

Radcliffe plays Sam Houser, the British co-founder and president of Rockstar Games which created that game along with other franchises like Max Payne and Red Dead Redemption.

Paxton will play activist attorney Jack Thompson who made his name blasting media companies for pushing rap and sex onto the airwaves before turning his attention to video games. He frequently targeted Houser and was ultimately disbarred in 2008 for inappropriate behavior.

Owen Harris will helm the project from a script by James Wood that is based on David Kushner’s book Jacked. Shooting begins next week.