Grand Theft Auto 5 actor ‘shot some stuff’ with Rockstar for a ‘James Bond Trevor’ growth that by no means occurred

Grand Theft Auto 5 first launched in 2013 (coming to PC in 2015), and from the vantage level of 2024 we will see it was a reside sport in disguise. The singleplayer facet of the sport, which for the primary time featured three protagonists gamers might swap between on-the-fly, acted as Computer virus for Rockstar’s second swing at GTA On-line, the multiplayer mode that might come to dominate the studio’s time and a focus and generate unfathomable ranges of money.

This meant that some plans glided by the wayside. Initially GTA 5 had post-launch plans that have been extra in-line with GTA 4, which acquired two wonderful singleplayer expansions: The Misplaced and the Damned, and The Ballad of Homosexual Tony. Rockstar was planning three singleplayer expansions for GTA 5, every themed round one of many sport’s protagonists, however after the launch itself re-focused on creating expansions for GTA On-line (the studio first talked about singleplayer DLC in 2013, however it will take till 2017 for its cancellation to be confirmed).

Because of dataminers, we all know that the primary growth was named Agent Trevor, whereas the latter two had the working titles of “Zombie Apocalypse” and “Alien Invasion.” Trevor’s voice actor, Steve Ogg, just lately appeared on a GTA livestream alongside Ned Luke (who performed Michael) and Shawn Fonteno (Franklin) to shoot the breeze about their time engaged on the sport (first noticed by the Loadout), and whereas doing so revealed that Rockstar had gone a way down the highway earlier than cancelling the growth. 

“We had that basically cool shit the place, and I overlook if it was gonna be DLC, Trevor was gonna be undercover,” says Ogg. “He works for the feds. And we did shoot a few of that stuff with like James Bond Trevor: he’s nonetheless type of a fuck up, however he’s doing his greatest to faux to be like [an agent]. We shot some stuff after which it simply disappeared and [Rockstar] by no means did it, and so they by no means adopted up on it.”

The innate comedy of Trevor, basically a deeply disagreeable sociopath, enjoying the a part of a federal agent is apparent. And the Agent Trevor DLC was teased by Rockstar in-game with a jetpack, one of many extra notorious Bond devices, suggesting this is able to’ve leaned closely into the foolish devices and set items, in the identical manner that Homosexual Tony wrapped a giant bow across the fabulous extra potential in GTA 4.

Ned Luke says that numerous these concepts ended up in DLC for GTA On-line, which Ogg agrees with, earlier than happening to muse about what would’ve been a enjoyable facet for GTA 5, and never only for his character.

“[Agent Trevor] would’ve been cool,” says Ogg. “He bought employed [by the Feds], that might’ve been enjoyable, to observe a distinct journey. Y’know, like Franklin turns into born once more or a Mormon or one thing [laughs] or a Hutterite and goes to make rabbit slippers on the colony [laughs].”

As if that does not make you ache sufficient for what we by no means had, the scuttlebutt is that Agent Trevor was deliberate to culminate with its very personal Moonraker second, that might see Trevor taking pictures off into house. Ned Luke mentions GTA On-line and that is the place Agent Trevor’s greatest concepts ended up, principally throughout the Doomsday heist with some within the Diamond On line casino heist.

To briefly rewind to GTA 4’s episodic DLC mannequin, the issue there wasn’t the standard (each have been excellent), however that Take Two and Rockstar felt they’d commercially underperformed (or as Take Two’s then-CEO Ben Feder put it in 2009, “weren’t in a position to leverage GTA 4’s preliminary advertising and marketing marketing campaign and preliminary launch fervor”). GTA On-line, then again, makes round half a billion {dollars} a 12 months regardless of being a scorching mess.

All eyes are on GTA 6 now, however whereas that sport shall be offered on its singleplayer mode it appears unlikely Rockstar will ever return to singleplayer DLC (it did not even go there with Purple Lifeless Redemption 2, which was crying out for its personal Undead Nightmare). Agent Trevor is a glimpse on the highway not travelled and, despite the fact that a lot of it ended up repurposed elsewhere, it is a pity we’ll by no means get to see everybody’s favorite psycho in a tux, ordering a vodka martini earlier than burning all of it down.