BBC’s Grand Theft Auto ‘factual drama’ stars Daniel Radcliffe and Bill Paxton

Grand Theft Auto is getting its own film, but it’s not a work of fiction.

The BBC today announced that it’s making a factual drama based on the iconic open-world action game Grand Theft Auto, which was first released on PlayStation and PC back in 1997. Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe and Apollo 13 star Bill Paxton are heading the cast, on opposite sides of the story. It’s a sign of how ingrained video games are in popular culture that two Hollywood stars are teaming up with the world’s oldest national broadcasting organization to dramatize a development story — one that eventually led to the biggest entertainment launch in history, when Grand Theft Auto sequel GTA V made $1 billion in its first three days in September 2013.