Trivia for grand theft auto: san andreas

When filming ended, all of the footage was together 10 hours long. Rockstar Games edited the film to 3 hrs and 40 min for a theartical release. However, also some big chances had to be done because some of the violent and sexual content resulted in an NC-17 rating, especially the explicit bedroom sex scene and the brutal rape scene. The cinema then decided to edit the film's content and make a 2 and a half hour film of it. In 2000 however, the full version of 3 hrs and 40 mins was finally released to theaters. Currently, the official version for the movie is the 3 hrs and 40 mins version. Rockstar Games also sees that as the official version.

Denzel Washington was 37 years old while filming the movie, although his character is 27 years old.

Tom Clancy was not happy with the film, saying that the film focused too much on the details. His novel mainly focused on the ghetto's, while the film goes more in depth with the characters and the situations. Tom Clancy who had already directed several films at that time directed a remake of the movie in 2001 which was a shot-for-shot adaptation of the novel. However, this film did poor at the box office and wasn't a success.

In Arabia, the scene with Brian dying in the car accident was heavily censured, because Arabia was at that time very strict for films involving child deaths.

Often said to be Rockstar Games's best film he ever made.

Since the release of the "Hoot Cut" in 2000 of the film, there have been rumors that Rockstar Games was trying to release the full 10-hour version of the film in theaters. However, Rockstar Games died in October 2011 due to bone cancer.

All of the scenes that take place in either Los Santos, Las Venturas, San Fierro or the desert towns were shot on greenscreen. The only scene to be filmed on-location was the scene in Liberty City. It was filmed in New York.

Marks the first movie that was filmed on a greenscreen.

The prostitute that is harrased in one scene in the film by Sweet and Big Smoke was a model that was part of the shoot that Rockstar Games did for models before making the film.

Rockstar Games started doing research for the film already in 1990. He partly focused on the "gangsta music", culture and the Mafia.

The character Salvatore Leone was specifically written for Frank Vincent.