GTA and Red Dead Redemption adaptations never happened because "games made poor-quality movies," Rockstar Games co-founder says, but "it's a different time now"

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With the mammoth successes of Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption, it's somewhat surprising that neither ever made it to the big screen, but Rockstar Games' former co-founder and former lead writer says that Hollywood certainly tried to make it happen. 

Rockstar Games veteran Dan Houser, in an interview with The Ankler, says that the studio went on "a few awkward dates" with film executives who were hungry to get GTA's money-making name in theatres. "We'd ask [them], why would we do this?" Houser explains, with the executives supposedly responding that the team would "get to make a movie."