Grand Theft Auto V (lost behind-the-scenes footage for development of open-world video game; early 2010s)

The cover art for Grand Theft Auto V.

Status: Lost

Grand Theft Auto V is a 2013 open-world action-adventure video game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It is the seventh main installment and fifteenth overall installment in the massively popular Grand Theft Auto video game series.

Many games by Rockstar are known for having official content that has been cut or will never see the light of day. With one of these being behind-the-scenes footage of Grand Theft Auto V's development that was gonna be used for a cancelled "Making Of" documentary.

Background

On April 11th, 2024, a Q&A interview with the voice actors hosted by Streamily was made. Shawn Fonteno, Ned Luke, and Steven Ogg talked and revealed some antics that happened during the making of Grand Theft Auto V. During this Q&A, Steven Oggs, the voice actor for Trevor, says that behind closed doors, "a string of stupid challenges" took place while the team wasn't working. Ned Luke, the voice actor for Michael, then makes the claim that a behind-the-scenes camera was running "the whole time." Luke then adds onto the claim that they never used the footage after development finished, quote;

"What’s nuts to me is that behind the scenes camera [we had] going the whole time and they never did anything with it. That stuff's gold."

Ogg then follows up with the claim, explaining that at one point, they discussed how cool it would be if they made a "Making Of" documentary for Grand Theft Auto V.

Availability

After the interview, video game news sites flocked with articles about this revelation. Many users online were confused on why the footage was never shown, but many Grand Theft Auto fans had gotten to the theory that Rockstar wanted to keep the development private since they're known for rarely revealing anything about how they develop their games.

As of today, the behind-the-scenes footage has never been released online and will be unlikely to do so because of Rockstar’s intentions to keep behind-the-scenes behind the curtains.

Gallery

Streamily's Q&A with the voice actors of Grand Theft Auto V, where Ned Luke explains the behind-the-scenes footage. (starts at 15:16 - 15:43)

See Also

• Grand Theft Auto (lost build of cancelled Sega Saturn port of action-adventure game; 1997)
• Grand Theft Auto 64 (lost build of cancelled Nintendo 64 port of action-adventure game; 1999)
• Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (lost builds of cancelled GameCube ports of open-world games; existence unconfirmed; early 2000's)
• Grand Theft Auto V (lost build of cancelled Wii U port of open-world game; existence unconfirmed; 2013)
• ZTA (lost build of cancelled PlayStation Portable zombie action-adventure open world game; mid-2000s)