This could've been something very special
"I think at that point it was still in Sam’s mind that it might be something that he wanted to do. [The agent] said 'Kirk we’ve got Eminem to star, and it’s a Tony Scott film – $5m on the nose. Are you interested?'"And I phoned up Sam and I said 'Listen to this. They want Eminem in the Grand Theft Auto movie and Tony Scott to direct'. And he said: 'Not interested'.
This was around 2001, when the Housers were releasing Grand Theft Auto 3, while Eminem had just finished production of 8 Mile, and the late, great director Tony Scott was looking for his next project . Kirk added that Sam and Dan figured"the media franchise that they had was bigger than any movie that was going on at the time".
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