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Rockstar Games’ NDAs more strict than Marvel’s, Red Dead Redemption 2 voice actor reveals

Here’s your reason for the silence around GTA 6

Marco Wutz

Rockstar Games’ NDAs more strict than Marvel’s, Red Dead Redemption 2 voice actor reveals
Rockstar Games’ NDAs more strict than Marvel’s, Red Dead Redemption 2 voice actor reveals /

Roger Clark, the voice actor of Red Dead Redemption 2 protagonist Arthur Morgan, revealed that Rockstar Games’ NDAs for talent starring in the studio’s games are more strict than those for Hollywood actors working on Marvel movies. We recently had Clark on as a guest for Episode 2 of GLHF’s Game & Fortune podcast, where he shared a story of his colleague and friend, Benjamin Byron Davis, who voiced Dutch van der Linde in Rockstar’s Wild West blockbusters, involving Guardians of the Galaxy and Mario star Chris Pratt.

“Ben is friends with Chris Pratt. They are buddies, and have been for decades,” Clark said. “Well, apparently when everything was done and dusted and Red Dead 2 was out, Ben compared NDAs with Chris Pratt and Rockstar’s NDA was more strict than Marvel’s.”

Red Dead Redemption 2 Arthur Morgan screenshot.
Rockstar Games' legal department seemingly can compete with that of Marvel / Rockstar Games

Rockstar Games is known for the high level of secrecy around projects in development and immediately pulls off the gloves when it comes to going after leakers, which is one the reasons most of those so-called GTA 6 leaks out there are likely humbug and actual information is very hard to come by.

After the site TrustedReviews in 2018 published internal documents from the company revealing confidential plans around Red Dead Redemption 2, its publisher TI Media was forced to issue a public apology on behalf of the site and had to pay $1 million USD to a charity chosen by Take-Two as a settlement – otherwise Take-Two’s legal wrath might have turned out to be even more costly.

It’s no wonder, then, that the company’s non-disclosure agreements are so watertight. Still, it’s a surprise that they surpass even the secrecy around Disney’s Marvel movies, which are some of the most highly anticipated blockbuster films around.

For more stories from the voice of Arthur Morgan, check out GLHF’s Game & Fortune Episode 2: Crossing Swords with Roger Clark, while looking forward to the video game releases of 2024 – which may well include Rockstar Games’ GTA 6.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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