Just curious. Kinds new to the video game world, but there are some pretty familiar names and some big name actors doing voice-overs on this game. I just wanna know how much it would take to interest these actors to do this job.
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Well, GTA 4 is much wirse about getting top actors into voiceover. Vice City had Liotta, Reynolds, Hopper...
I wonder, how much got Liotta for voicing Vercetti?
If I were Michael Hollick I would have simply asked for a percentage of the profits. In the case of GTA IV, a 100 % guaranteed success, even 0,1 % of the profits would have been six times the salary he ended up getting. Then again, they'd probably refuse such demands and cast a cheaper actor.
I have noticed they are moving away from casting big names in these games- Vice City's cast looked like a regular big Hollywood film, San Andreas had a lot more smaller names including a total unknown as the lead, and IV has no big names whatsoever. Not that the acting is any less good, though- R* probably figured that out as well and realized they could get the same quality of acting talent for a much cheaper price. Still, it's an interesing development because most game developers are casting increasingly more big names in their titles- Elijah Wood is voicing Spyro the Dragon now.
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Getting high-progile actors is a question of quality. Sure, the voicing sound the same, but getting these high-paid guys makes the game an EXPENSIVE masterpiece.
shareHe didn't get screwed. He got the salary that was mutually agreed.
Since actors are employees and don't *invest* and take chances and studio's/developers do, actors only deserve what is contractually owed them.
If GTA would have tanked, the actors would not have taken a paycut either, they would have insisted they get the money contractually owed them (and rightfully so), so they also don't deserve a cut of the profit in the case of success.
The closest thing to top name actors in GTA IV are the comedians that Lazlow knew through working at XM and being friends with Opie and Anthony.
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they wouldn't give him a percentage you peanuts...it's obvious gta is gonna sell shed loads...100,000 is a nice some of money for what he did, they could have got anyone
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Agreed...Ray Liotta claims he only did his voiceover role for the money, so I'm sure he would have put up a fuss if it wasn't enough.
shareI'd bet dollars to donuts that the big names from Grand Theft Auto: III, Vice City, and San Andreas got A LOT more than the relative unknowns from all the other installments of the series. How much more? Not sure exactly. But I'm sure it was costing Rockstar a lot of money, which is why they dropped the big names. Business wise, it was a wise decision.
Lower production costs while maintaining the same amount of profits since game sales didn't subsequently go down. I do miss the big names to a certain extent, though. Ray Liotta was great in Vice City. Definitely not a deal breaker though, and I'd imagine it wouldn't be for anyone else, which is why Rockstar dropped the big names like a bad habit.