Hollywood actors preserve mentioning a potential Red Dead Redemption film and saying they might love to be in it. After Jack Black revealed he’d love to star in a Red Dead Redemption film, regardless of the very fact he doesn’t assume Rockstar would ever greenlight it, Karl Urban has thrown his hat into the ring.
Urban, star of The Lord of the Rings, Star Trek, The Boys, Dredd and a lot extra, even advised the character he’d love to play: John Marston.
In an interview with Square Mile, Urban was requested if there have been some other online game diversifications he’d love to star in, having performed Johnny Cage in the upcoming Mortal Kombat 2.
“Red Dead Redemption is one among my favourites,” he replied. “Red Dead is a improbable recreation. It’s fascinating as a result of I didn’t actually have an excessive amount of of a chance to get that closely invested in the gaming tradition. Though I completely benefit from the alternative to indulge in that form of escapism, when gaming consoles got here out in 1994, I used to be an unemployed actor residing in Sydney. I couldn’t afford these consoles.
“By the point I may, I used to be so busy engaged on numerous initiatives around the globe that I used to be by no means ready to get into it. From time to time, after I did get the uncommon alternative, Red Dead was definitely one of many video games that spoke to me.”
Then, Urban delivered the kicker: “I imply, come on, John Marston! I’d love to play that character.”
John Marston, for the uninitiated, is the protagonist of 2010’s Red Dead Redemption, and a secondary protagonist of its sequel, 2018’s Red Dead Redemption 2. He’s a former outlaw making an attempt to escape his violent previous and defend his household whereas being compelled by federal brokers to search out his former Van der Linde gang members.
Whereas Urban does appear excellent for the function, it appears unlikely he’ll ever get the prospect to understand this explicit dream. Rockstar and guardian firm Take-Two have proven no indication of permitting Hollywood anyplace close to their prized properties, and that features Grand Theft Auto. In 2024, Rockstar Video games co-founder and former head author Dan Houser mentioned a Grand Theft Auto film “by no means made sense,” insisting it will have been a “enormous danger” contemplating the popularity of the GTA model.
“Why would we do that?,” Houser and the opposite Rockstar leads requested the movie executives. “What you have described is you making a film and us having no management and taking a enormous danger, that we’re going to find yourself paying for with one thing that belongs to us.”
“They thought we’d be blinded by the lights and that simply wasn’t the case. We had what we thought of to be multi billion greenback IP, and the economics by no means made sense. The chance by no means made sense. In these days, the notion was that video games made poor-quality motion pictures.”
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