The Gamechangers
The struggle of Rockstar Games co-founder Sam Houser's legal feud against American lawyer Jack Thompson, over the morality of the Grand Theft Auto video game series.
- Rated
- TV-MA
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Released
- 2015
- Country
- United Kingdom
Details
Release year: 2015
Storyline
The struggle of Rockstar Games co-founder Sam Houser's legal feud against American lawyer Jack Thompson, over the morality of the Grand Theft Auto video game series.
Top credits
Daniel Radcliffe — Sam Houser
Bill Paxton — Jack Thompson
Joe Dempsie — Jamie King
Ryan Gage — Jounalist, Presenter, Crowd
Did you know
• Rockstar games has made official comment about The Gamechangers stating the film is full of inaccuracies and misrepresents the real people it portrays.
• One of the reasons why Daniel Radcliffe was keen to take part in the production was because he was a huge fan of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City growing up.
• In May 2015, Rockstar filed an injunction against the BBC, claiming that they hadn't been consulted in the making of the film. They even tweeted after the film's showing on BBC2 "Was Basil Brush busy? What exactly is this random, made-up bollocks?"
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Technical specs
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
- Color
- Color
