When you observe Rockstar Video games on X (the The whole lot App previously often called Twitter), then you could have been shocked, confused, or a mix of the 2 while you noticed the GTA studio posting in regards to the movie Marching Powder and its star, Danny Dyer.
From our pals Nick Love and Danny Dyer, absolutely the legends behind The Soccer Manufacturing unit…@MarchingPowder_ — a correct naughty comedy out tomorrow within the UK and Eire.
Get tickets now at https://t.co/Zj4EBgRKVO and look out for particulars on worldwide launch quickly. pic.twitter.com/15u4DEpeDW
— Rockstar Video games (@RockstarGames) March 6, 2025
Why on earth would Rockstar be posting a couple of small British movie to its viewers of 21 million followers? And who is that this Danny Dyer man? Don’t fear, we’re right here to elucidate.
Who’s Danny Dyer?
Danial John Dyer, higher often called Danny Dyer, is an actor from East London. And in case you dwell within the UK, he wants no introduction. As Rockstar’s publish states, he’s an “absolute legend”. When you don’t communicate British slang, then please confer with the City Dictionary’s definition of the time period to raised perceive Dyer’s popularity:
“An individual who embodies the head of all of the necessary social elements. Any one who is humorous, reckless, unique and delicate in the precise measures is more likely to be nominated a legend by his associates. An individual to whose persona you aspire.”
Dyer has been appearing since 1993 and has constructed up a popularity for taking part in rough-and-ready working class characters. That’s partially as a consequence of his public persona; he’s thought of considerably outspoken on societal and authorities points, and is thought for his “powerful uncle” way of living. For instance, in 2010 when providing recommendation to readers of Zoo journal, Dyer advised a person making an attempt to get well from a latest break-up that he ought to go “on a rampage [drinking session] with the boys.”
Dyer can be beloved for his many wild social media posts, comparable to this gem:
Roll on bonfire night time……….it is gonna get strapped to an important huge large fuck off Rocket so it may well be part of the opposite Furbys within the sky…
— Danny Dyer (@MrDDyer) September 12, 2013
How is Danny Dyer Related to Rockstar?
When you’ve no thought who Danny Dyer is, however are a giant fan of the Grand Theft Auto video games, you then’ve nearly definitely heard his voice. Dyer performs Kent Paul in GTA: Vice Metropolis, the supervisor of Scottish rock band, Love Fist. He reprised the function for GTA: San Andreas, through which Kent represented a brand new band, the Gurning Chimps, and later produced for rapper Madd Dogg.
Dyer has a extra necessary connection to Rockstar, although, and it comes from an uncommon place. In 2004, Dyer starred in The Soccer Manufacturing unit, a British movie directed by Nick Love and produced by… Rockstar Video games. Sure, as soon as upon a time Rockstar helped create a characteristic movie.
Marching Powder, a brand new movie releasing within the UK and Eire this week, reunites Danny Dyer with Nick Love. The challenge, whereas not a sequel to The Soccer Manufacturing unit, pulls on lots of the identical concepts, together with soccer hooliganism (see: violence amongst followers), heavy ingesting and drug use, and a uniquely British gritty sense of humour.
Regardless of the publish on X, Rockstar has nothing to do with Marching Powder. It appears the studio is just championing the movie due to its prior connection to Dyer and Love and their work on The Soccer Manufacturing unit.
Is Vice Metropolis’s Kent Paul Returning for GTA 6?
Brief reply: we’ve no thought. And this social media publish definitely has nothing to do with GTA 6. However hey, we would as nicely theorise anyway. Might Kent Paul present up in Grand Theft Auto 6?
It’s necessary to keep in mind that GTA is cut up up into two very completely different eras: the 3D period (video games launched on the PS2 and PSP) and the HD period (GTA 4 onwards). Each are thought of their very own universes – storylines from one don’t proceed into the opposite. That’s why GTA 5’s Los Santos seems totally completely different to San Andreas’ equal metropolis, and why there’s no direct point out of characters from the PS2-era video games in GTA 4 and 5.
That’s to not say there’s no overlap, although. CJ’s house cul-de-sac, Grove Avenue, seems in GTA 5, and lots of the gangs that first featured within the 3D universe are current within the HD universe, together with the Ballas. Lazlo, the notorious ponytailed scumbag, has additionally been in a lot of GTA video games spanning the 2 eras. And right here’s the kicker: Kent Paul has his title on the Vinewood Stroll of Fame.
So is there an opportunity that Kent Paul might return for GTA 6? It’s definitely potential. However a publish on X about Marching Powder definitely doesn’t convey us any nearer to affirmation.
Matt Purslow is IGN’s Senior Options Editor.
