MOVIE NEWS – Few video game franchises feel as naturally built for the big screen as Red Dead Redemption. It has the open world, the morally complicated characters, and that unmistakable Western atmosphere. But none of that matters if the people holding the keys want nothing to do with a film adaptation, and that is exactly what Jack Black is lamenting once again.
Jack Black remains one of the most visible faces in the world of video game movies, and in his case this clearly goes beyond a simple paycheck. After another huge turn as Bowser in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie and his role as Steve in A Minecraft Movie, he has once again returned to one of his favorite gaming obsessions: Rockstar’s Western saga. In a recent interview with Polygon, Black was asked yet again about the refusal to make a Red Dead Redemption movie, and he said it was simply “a shame.”
He believes turning video games into movies, at least in this case, would be almost absurdly straightforward. Black also used the moment to send a public message to the founders of Rockstar Games: “Dan, Sam, I’m waiting for your call.” The awkward detail, of course, is that Dan Houser left Rockstar back in 2020 and later moved on to found Absurd Ventures, while his brother Sam Houser remains the company’s president. In the same conversation, Black admitted that the Houser brothers appear to have “zero interest” in turning their games into movies at all.
Jack Black Still Cannot Believe There Is No Red Dead Redemption Movie
Rockstar has not exactly suffered from a lack of offers to adapt its biggest franchises, yet Jack Black still seems baffled that neither GTA nor Red Dead Redemption has seriously moved toward the big screen. Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick previously made it clear that if one of these properties ever became a film, it would have to happen under the company’s own creative control. On top of that, the spectacular collapse of the Borderlands movie probably did nothing to convince them that Hollywood is where their games should go next.
