We are delighted that we can help bring the church back to its former glory securing its future whilst providing a renovated local and performing arts centre that will benefit the wider community.Īccording to Edinburgh News, "a charitable trust has been founded to manage the community centre and a board of trustees will include representatives from the local community". The preservation of St Stephen’s church as a community centre meets a pressing need as well as protecting an important historical building. Stockbridge is a busy residential area with a relatively small number of community venues. Philip Johnston, a spokesman for Benzies, told Edinburgh News that this is "an entirely philanthrophic purchase": Benzies though, acknowledging the historical and community importance of the building, ultimately placed a securing bid that is rumored to be in the area of £500,000 (USD$850,000). The future of the building was in doubt, with more than 50 potential buyers expressing an interest in the building - some wishing to turned it into "private flats or a bar- restaurant complex". Known as an eastern "gateway" into Stockbridge, the St Stephen's Church is a local landmark, dating from the early 18 hundreds one which has been looking for a new owner, since a campaign to save it for the community failed earlier this year. No, you did not ready that title wrong - Leslie Benzies, the president of Rockstar North, is set to buy a church in Stockbridge, Edinburgh, where he has lived for over a decade.
What are your thoughts? Share them with us over on Twitter. More news on this as it becomes available, but it could certainly shape up to be an interesting look into the lives of the Houser brothers, Rockstar, and the controversy that reached peak heights around the reveal of the "Hot Coffee" scenes in GTA: San Andreas back in 2005. Oh, and the part of Jack Thompson has not yet been cast. Not much more is known about the movie at this stage, other than that filming is scheduled to start April 20th.
The movie is said to be a recount of the repeated attacks from Thompson last decade on Rockstar and the Grand Theft Auto franchise, and, in a surprising casting choice, is rumored to have Daniel Radcliffe (of the Harry Potter franchise) playing Sam Houser.
The book covers the lives on Rockstars' Sam and Dan Houser, the story behind Grand Theft Auto and Rockstar themselves, along with controversies, backlashes, evolution, and of course, our old friend Jack Thompson. This isn't a movie adaption of the Grand Theft Auto series (phew!), no, rather it's a dramamatic documentary, based on the book Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto by David Kushner, released in 2012. The Hollywood Reporter dropped one-hell of an exclusive today: BBC Films is apparently working on a "Grand Theft Auto" movie.īut wait a second, because it's not what you think.
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