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The Gamechangers
The Gamechangers is a 2015 British docudrama produced by the BBC. The programme is an unauthorised depiction of the controversies caused by Grand Theft Auto, a successful video game series, as various attempts were made to halt the production of the games.
Directed by Owen Harris and written by James Wood, the film centres on the legal feud between Rockstar Games president Sam Houser (Daniel Radcliffe) and Florida attorney Jack Thompson (Bill Paxton) over the video games and the debate regarding the psychological effects of violent video games.
It is based on the book Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto by David Kushner.
On October 27, 2002, a year after the release of Grand Theft Auto III, the American gaming company Rockstar Games releases Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, which immediately shatters sales records, with 1 million units sold within 24 hours, and is universally acclaimed for its authenticity, scale and gameplay.
Inspired by the success of the game, the heads of Rockstar, brothers Sam and Dan Houser, immediately begin planning and researching for another, even larger and more elaborate game, one that moves away from Vice City's crime movie origins and bases its premise on the war between African-American street gangs in South Central Los Angeles during the early 90s.
The following June, however, 18-year-old Devin Moore, a persistent player of Vice City, shoots dead three people at a police station in Fayette, Alabama before he steals a cop car. His case catches the eye of conservative Florida-based attorney Jack Thompson who, upon questioning Devin in prison and playing the game for himself, theorises that the game's violent content and alleged glamorisation of criminal activity may have been the primary cause for his rampage.
Thompson gathers together some expert analysis of the effects of violent images on human brains and the use of violent video games in the military before he files a lawsuit against Rockstar Games and its publisher Take-Two Interactive, seeking damages on behalf of the families of the murdered personnel. This immediately earns him and his family the ire of the game's fans who start vandalising their house and making threatening phone calls.
Because of Thompson's outspokenness, unprofessional conduct and violation of court protocol, such as appearing on television to discuss the case in detail, comparing the game to Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor and sending aggressive emails to the defendants, he is taken off the case, which is immediately thrown out on the basis that none of the remaining claimants had ever met Devin, despite claiming to be discussing his motivation. Thompson is outraged and, to make matters worse, Rockstar's law firm Blank Rome decides to start legal proceedings to have him disbarred for his conduct.
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The Gamechangers
The Gamechangers is a 2015 British docudrama produced by the BBC. The programme is an unauthorised depiction of the controversies caused by Grand Theft Auto, a successful video game series, as various attempts were made to halt the production of the games.
Directed by Owen Harris and written by James Wood, the film centres on the legal feud between Rockstar Games president Sam Houser (Daniel Radcliffe) and Florida attorney Jack Thompson (Bill Paxton) over the video games and the debate regarding the psychological effects of violent video games.
It is based on the book Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto by David Kushner.
On October 27, 2002, a year after the release of Grand Theft Auto III, the American gaming company Rockstar Games releases Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, which immediately shatters sales records, with 1 million units sold within 24 hours, and is universally acclaimed for its authenticity, scale and gameplay.
Inspired by the success of the game, the heads of Rockstar, brothers Sam and Dan Houser, immediately begin planning and researching for another, even larger and more elaborate game, one that moves away from Vice City's crime movie origins and bases its premise on the war between African-American street gangs in South Central Los Angeles during the early 90s.
The following June, however, 18-year-old Devin Moore, a persistent player of Vice City, shoots dead three people at a police station in Fayette, Alabama before he steals a cop car. His case catches the eye of conservative Florida-based attorney Jack Thompson who, upon questioning Devin in prison and playing the game for himself, theorises that the game's violent content and alleged glamorisation of criminal activity may have been the primary cause for his rampage.
Thompson gathers together some expert analysis of the effects of violent images on human brains and the use of violent video games in the military before he files a lawsuit against Rockstar Games and its publisher Take-Two Interactive, seeking damages on behalf of the families of the murdered personnel. This immediately earns him and his family the ire of the game's fans who start vandalising their house and making threatening phone calls.
Because of Thompson's outspokenness, unprofessional conduct and violation of court protocol, such as appearing on television to discuss the case in detail, comparing the game to Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor and sending aggressive emails to the defendants, he is taken off the case, which is immediately thrown out on the basis that none of the remaining claimants had ever met Devin, despite claiming to be discussing his motivation. Thompson is outraged and, to make matters worse, Rockstar's law firm Blank Rome decides to start legal proceedings to have him disbarred for his conduct.