There’s been some behind the scenes drama in Nathan Drake’s latest adventure; the lead writer and creative director on the series left abruptly, and a whole bunch of behind-the-scenes personnel followed her out the door. Among those personnel appears to be one of the game’s key voice actors, Alan Tudyk.
Tudyk, best known to nerds for Firefly and to parents for his work on Frozen, is surprisingly honest about what happened:
I mean, I left because they decided to go a different way with it and so when they did that, when they changed leadership, it made my contract null and void… I made some friends – not with Naughty Dog – but I made some friends with the people that left.
Of note, Amy Hennig, the creative director and writer who departed, is currently working on Star Wars games, and Alan Tudyk has been cast in Rogue One. So, bailing may have worked out for him, in the long run.
For the game, though, that raises a few questions. Drake himself, Nolan North, has admitted the game threw out “eight months” of voice-acting work. The game has also been surprisingly rapid; it went from announced in 2013 to, currently, hitting shelves in March 2016, which includes the drama we’re talking about here. True, it might still be pushed back, but it seems we’ll be getting a look at the end results of all this much sooner than we thought.
(Via Ars Technica)