Fresh from Victor Frankenstein and the sequel to Now You See Me, Daniel Radcliffe is now eyeing the BBC's developing Grand Theft Auto drama{
This is, as you'll have gathered, a film about the infamous videogame franchise rather than one based on it (we were told in 2013 that a "straight" GTA movie will never happen). Radcliffe is in the frame for the role of Rockstar Games honcho Sam Hauser, who steered the games from their simple top-down origins to the massively complex - and violent - open world system we now know.
The film (and the book it's based on) deals with the British Hauser's clashes with the Floridian self-styled moral activist Jack Thompson: an attorney who had already gone after other media companies he perceived as promoting sex and violence. With thudding inevitability he was disbarred in 2008 following charges of corruption.
Radcliffe hasn't quite yet signed on the line, but if he does settle into place, the production's next job will be to find the appropriate Thompson to face off against him.
Shooting is scheduled to start at the end of this month. Jacked is published in the UK by HarperCollins.