If you comply with Rockstar Games on X (the Everything App previously referred to as Twitter), then you might have been stunned, confused, or a mixture of the 2 whenever 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 Football Factory…@MarchingPowder_ — a correct naughty comedy out tomorrow within the UK and Ireland.
Get tickets now at https://t.co/Zj4EBgRKVO and look out for particulars on worldwide release quickly. pic.twitter.com/15u4DEpeDW
— Rockstar Games (@RockstarGames) March 6, 2025
Why on earth would Rockstar be posting about a small British movie to its viewers of 21 million followers? And who is this Danny Dyer man? Don’t fear, we’re right here to clarify.
Who is Danny Dyer?
Danial John Dyer, higher referred to as Danny Dyer, is an actor from East London. And in case you stay within the UK, he wants no introduction. As Rockstar’s put up states, he’s an “absolute legend”. If you don’t communicate British slang, then please discuss with the Urban Dictionary’s definition of the term to higher perceive Dyer’s repute:
“A person who embodies the pinnacle of all the important social aspects. Any person who is funny, reckless, original and sensitive in the right measures is likely to be nominated a legend by his associates. A person to whose persona you aspire.”
Dyer has been appearing since 1993 and has constructed up a repute for taking part in rough-and-ready working class characters. That’s partly resulting from his public persona; he’s thought of considerably outspoken on societal and authorities points, and is identified for his “tough uncle” lifestyle. For instance, in 2010 when offering advice to readers of Zoo journal, Dyer informed a man making an attempt to get better from a latest break-up that he ought to go “on a rampage [drinking session] with the boys."
Dyer is additionally beloved for his many wild social media posts, resembling this gem:
Roll on bonfire evening……….it's gonna get strapped to a great large large fuck off Rocket so it may be a part of the opposite Furbys within the sky…
— Danny Dyer (@MrDDyer) September 12, 2013
How is Danny Dyer Connected to Rockstar?
If you’ve no thought who Danny Dyer is, however are a large fan of the Grand Theft Auto video games, you then’ve virtually definitely heard his voice. Dyer plays Kent Paul in GTA: Vice City, the supervisor of Scottish rock band, Love Fist. He reprised the position for GTA: San Andreas, through which Kent represented a new band, the Gurning Chimps, and later produced for rapper Madd Dogg.
Dyer has a more important connection to Rockstar, although, and it comes from an uncommon place. In 2004, Dyer starred in The Football Factory, a British movie directed by Nick Love and produced by… Rockstar Games. Yes, as soon as upon a time Rockstar helped create a characteristic movie.
Marching Powder, a new movie releasing within the UK and Ireland this week, reunites Danny Dyer with Nick Love. The mission, whereas not a sequel to The Football Factory, pulls on many of the identical concepts, together with football hooliganism (see: violence amongst followers), heavy ingesting and drug use, and a uniquely British gritty sense of humour.
Despite the put up on X, Rockstar has nothing to do with Marching Powder. It appears the studio is merely championing the movie as a result of of its prior connection to Dyer and Love and their work on The Football Factory.
Is Vice City's Kent Paul Returning for GTA 6?
Short reply: we’ve no thought. And this social media put up definitely has nothing to do with GTA 6. But hey, we’d as effectively theorise anyway. Could Kent Paul show up in Grand Theft Auto 6?
It’s important to do not forget that GTA is cut up up into two very totally different eras: the 3D period (video games launched on the PS2 and PSP) and the HD period (GTA 4 onwards). Both are thought of their own universes – storylines from one don’t proceed into the opposite. That’s why GTA 5’s Los Santos seems to be solely totally 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 home cul-de-sac, Grove Street, seems in GTA 5, and many 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 quantity of GTA video games spanning the 2 eras. And right here’s the kicker: Kent Paul has his identify on the Vinewood Walk of Fame.
So is there a likelihood that Kent Paul might return for GTA 6? It’s definitely attainable. But a put up on X about Marching Powder definitely doesn’t deliver us any nearer to affirmation.
Matt Purslow is IGN's Senior Features Editor.