A Florida man is asking on Rockstar Video games to pay him $2 million for exhibiting actually one second of a personality who appears to be like like him within the reveal trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6. Lawrence Sullivan, AKA “Florida Joker,” accused the studio of stealing his likeness in his newest TikTok video. However a Pink Useless Redemption 2 voice actor wasn’t having it.
Sullivan, who bought his face tattooed to resemble Jared Leto’s model of the Joker following the Batman villain’s look in 2016’s Suicide Squad, has been making an attempt to monetize his current flicker within the limelight. “Let’s discuss,” he stated in a public name to Rockstar after parodies of him and different viral social media figures appeared in GTA 6’s long-awaited first trailer. Over the weekend, he adopted up with extra particular calls for.
“We gotta discuss or [if] not you gotta give me like a mil or two,” Sullivan stated in his newest TikTok video. “Florida Joker ain’t having that, y’all took my likeness, y’all took my life.” State publicity legal guidelines usually shield folks’s proper to revenue off their very own likeness, with notable exceptions for issues like parody.
One one who appears to suppose Sullivan has no motive to complain is Roger Clark, the voice actor behind Pink Useless Redemption 2’s protagonist, Arthur Morgan. “[Rockstar Games is] lawyered up, man,” he stated in his personal TikTok video, based on PC Gamer. “They know precisely what they’ll and can’t get away with. If I have been you, I might use the notoriety they only threw your option to your benefit. Capitalize on it in some way. You ain’t getting a job at Residence Depot with that face.”
Clark has since deleted the video, perhaps as a result of he felt unhealthy about dunking on Sullivan’s look, or perhaps as a result of he didn’t need to elevate the social media drama involving his previous employer. Within the phrases of Arthur Morgan, “We are able to’t change what’s finished, we will solely transfer on.”
