Take-Two isn’t ruling out a GTA movie or TV show, but there isn’t one in the works that anyone has announced. CEO Strauss Zelnick said a film or series would only happen if the company’s creative teams were passionate about it, and that Take-Two is very selective about who it works with.
Not announced No GTA film or TV series has been announced by Rockstar or Take-Two. Zelnick’s comments were an answer to a question, not a hint at a project.
What Zelnick said
Zelnick was a guest on The David Rubenstein Show, the interview series on Bloomberg, in an episode released this week. GamesRadar reports that Rubenstein asked him why GTA has never been adapted in its 30 years.
In GamesRadar’s account, Zelnick’s answer came in three parts:
- Take-Two is careful with spin-offs into other media. He said Take-Two is a creative company whose goal is to make the best entertainment there is, and that it is careful about taking its series into other forms.
- The push has to come from the creators. Take-Two would make a film or show based on one of its series if its creative teams were passionate about it and believed it would engage and delight players.
- The bar is high. He pointed to the risk that an adaptation fails, and summed up the position as not ruling it out while being “very, very selective”.
He didn’t name Rockstar, a studio, a streaming service or a time frame.
Has there ever been a GTA film?
Not an official one. GamesRadar notes that the closest thing is The Gamechangers, a 2015 TV drama in which Daniel Radcliffe played Rockstar’s Sam Houser during the legal fight with attorney Jack Thompson over violent games. Rockstar was openly critical of it at the time.
How Take-Two handles its other adaptations
Take-Two does license some of its other series, which shows what “selective” looks like in practice:
- Borderlands. The live-action film based on Gearbox’s series flopped at the box office in 2024. In November 2024 Zelnick told Variety the film was disappointing but helped sales of the older Borderlands games, and that Take-Two had no financial exposure to the loss, GamesRadar reported. He added that the company would keep licensing selectively because film results can’t be controlled.
- BioShock. A BioShock film was announced at Netflix in 2022. In October 2026 director Francis Lawrence said the team is still working on it and called the story hard to crack, GamesRadar reported. There is no release date.
Analysis Read together, these answers explain why GTA has stayed games-only. Take-Two licenses its smaller series to outside studios, but GTA is the company’s biggest brand, and Zelnick has tied any GTA adaptation to Rockstar’s own teams wanting to make one. With GTA 6 out on November 19, Rockstar’s attention is on the game, so don’t expect news soon.
What this means for GTA 6
Nothing changes for the game. GTA 6 still launches on November 19, 2026 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. For what Take-Two said about the launch itself, see our post on preorders reaching “unprecedented levels”.
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