Eli Roth made a boom boom. Mike and Jay talks about Borderlands. What a misfire! Odd casting choices. No one want to make. Adult professionals pretend to "ca...
The longer version is David Eddings was the Vice President of Business Development at Gearbox, and voiced Claptrap in Borderlands and Borderlands 2, for either very little or no extra pay. He left Gearbox, and CEO Randy Pitchford said some things about Eddings in an interview which led to a back-and-forth Twitter argument, allegations of assault and fraud against Pitchford, and a lawsuit. It was all big news while it happened but I can’t find much info now about where it landed, except that Gearbox found somebody else to voice Claptrap after that.
I was kinda hoping they’d work things out and get him for the movie, but, alas…
Didn’t the guy who originally played claptrap quit the games or something?
Essentially.
The longer version is David Eddings was the Vice President of Business Development at Gearbox, and voiced Claptrap in Borderlands and Borderlands 2, for either very little or no extra pay. He left Gearbox, and CEO Randy Pitchford said some things about Eddings in an interview which led to a back-and-forth Twitter argument, allegations of assault and fraud against Pitchford, and a lawsuit. It was all big news while it happened but I can’t find much info now about where it landed, except that Gearbox found somebody else to voice Claptrap after that.
I was kinda hoping they’d work things out and get him for the movie, but, alas…