Rockstar originally planned to continue the story of Trevor, Franklin and Michael. Now one of the actors provides exciting details
Please don’t be alarmed and look for gray hairs, but GTA 5 is already over eleven years old! The fact that our stay in Los Santos doesn’t feel that long is mainly due to GTA Online, which has received numerous addons over the years and thus always offered new content.
The story mode of GTA 5 was never continued, although there were some plans for it. Now the actors of Trevor, Franklin and Michael are spilling the beans and we learn some details from a DLC that should have revolved around Trevor.
My name is Philips – Trevor Philips!
We can’t imagine that the completely crazy Trevor Philips, of all people, would have been like Agent 007 in Her Majesty’s Secret Service. Nevertheless, the psychopath played by actor Steven Ogg would apparently have actually started a career as an agent.
Steven Ogg recently revealed this in a livestream in which he and his fellow actors Ned Luke (Michael) and Shawn Fonteno (Franklin) talk about deleted single-player content.
You can find the passage in question at minute 26:20 in this video:
Steven Ogg says that he had already shot scenes for the Agent DLC back then:
We had this really cool idea that Trevor should be an undercover agent – he works for the FBI! And we shot some of that stuff with James Bond Trevor
he’s still a screw-up, but he does his best to pretend to be [a good agent].
We shot some stuff, but then I just disappeared and never finished it and they never followed up on it.
Planned story DLCs for Michael and Franklin too?
Ned Luke backs up his colleague’s recollections by saying that, in his opinion, Rockstar’s original plan was to continue the stories of the three characters in one DLC each.
This information is not new, as a leak emerged at the end of 2023 that revealed several never-released single-player DLCs for GTA 5 (via Kotaku). Among other things, Michael’s DLC was supposed to revolve around aliens, while Franklin would have had to deal with zombies in some way
In the end, however, Rockstar decided to prioritize the financially very profitable GTA Online As a result, many of the ideas for the single-player DLCs found their way into GTA Online as part of several add-ons
It’s now considered unlikely that we’ll hear from Trevor, Michael and Franklin again. Not least because, as we all know, GTA 6 is just around the corner. Well, just around the corner
is perhaps a little optimistic given the release date of 2025 at the earliest – but hey, if you’ve been waiting eleven years for a sequel, that one year is probably a piece of cake.
There’s a lot going on behind the scenes at Take-Two Interactive, the publisher behind the GTA series. Several hundred people will soon be made redundant and several game projects will be discontinued as a result. It is not known whether Rockstar is also affected by the job cuts
