Overview
- This week LA Noire writer Daniel McMahon told YouTuber Cade Onder that Jon Hamm was proposed to play detective Cole Phelps during the game's development.
- McMahon said Aaron Staton, Hamm’s Mad Men co-star, was ultimately cast because Staton better matched Phelps’s younger, more fragile character traits.
- McMahon described Hamm as “incredible, but expensive” and suggested Hamm’s screen presence would have suited the tougher character Jack Kelso more than Phelps.
- The revelation is a retrospective detail that does not change the game’s credits or status: LA Noire (2011) never received a direct sequel and a planned follow-up, Whore of the Orient, was later cancelled.
- Post-release stewardship of LA Noire included 2017 ports and a VR edition by Video Games Deluxe, which Rockstar acquired last year and renamed Rockstar Australia, and Rockstar has not publicly confirmed any cast for GTA 6.