Grand Theft Auto is easily the hottest and most successful video game franchise going today, with the most recent version in stores now. If Uwe Boll can churn out crap-daptations of things like Dungeon Siege with alarming regularity, you'd think GTA would've cashed in by now. Yet they can't. Because Ron Howard beat them to the punch.
Watch the trailer for Ron Howard's 1977 film Grand Theft Auto.
Sure, he's an Oscar-winning director now, but in his earlier days behind the camera, he was also in front of it, on the lam with Nancy Morgan and getting in all sorts of crazy car-wreck adventures. It was even a family affair, not only featuring his real life father Rance and brother Clint, but even his TV family - Mrs. C Marion Ross from Happy Days.
So Fox Atomic now owns the right to the movie title Grand Theft Auto, which is this particular film. Rockstar Games owns the rights to the video game title Grand Theft Auto, which is the game everyone wans to see. Neither side can cross over to the other without hammering out a deal, and so far there's nothing doing. So for now you'll have to make do with the Howard clan blowin' stuff up good.
