Deliverance 2 Star Wants to be in Red Dead Redemption 3

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 actor Luke Dale has publicly called for Rockstar to cast him in Red Dead Redemption 3. That is not the first time he has done so, with the KCD2 star previously describing the prospect of appearing in a future Red Dead game as a dream job.

Dale played Lord Hans Capon in both of Warhorse Studios’ Kingdom Come games, providing both the character’s voice and performance capture. In March 2025, while on a road trip through the southern United States, the KCD2 star said he was enjoying the experience so much that he had made it his “life’s mission” to land a role in a Red Dead game.

Luke Dale Renews His Red Dead Redemption Casting Pitch

In a July 10 post on X, Dale revived his previously proclaimed ambition by publicly appealing to the Red Dead Redemption developer. “Once again pleading with @RockstarGames to make me a cowboy,” the actor wrote. Although he did not mention any game titles, official or otherwise, Red Dead Redemption 3 remains the likeliest next addition to the franchise if and when Rockstar decides to continue it.

Dale’s remark generated about 375,000 impressions and prompted dozens of discussion threads within a day and a half of going live. One reply asked the Hans Capon actor whether he could perform an American accent, drawing a confident response. Such online exchanges are typical of Dale, who frequently discusses his game concepts on social media. In early 2025, for example, he shared some ideas for a Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 sequel more than a year before Warhorse officially confirmed that a third installment in the RPG series was indeed in development.

RDR2 Unlikely To Be Happening Anytime Soon

Even if Rockstar were fully open to casting Dale in the Red Dead universe, any opportunity to do so would likely remain years away. The gaps between the studio’s AAA releases have grown considerably since the mid-2000s, largely because individual development cycles have become increasingly lengthy. That pattern makes a near-term release of Red Dead Redemption 3 difficult to imagine, but it does not rule out early planning or pre-production.

How Long Rockstar Games Takes Between Major Releases

In the Last 20 Years (2006–2026)

Preliminary work on Red Dead Redemption 2 began shortly after the original game’s 2010 release and overlapped with development of Grand Theft Auto 5. Senior Rockstar officials have also said the company’s studios move between projects as needed, sometimes creating periods of overlap even though Rockstar no longer keeps multiple big-budget titles in full production at once. As things currently stand, GTA 6 and its (still-unannounced) Online component are likely to be the company’s last major releases for some time.

In the meantime, Dale could appear in the next Kingdom Come game, which Warhorse recently confirmed is in development and targeting Embracer Group’s next fiscal year, running from April 2027 through March 2028. The relatively close release window has left some fans skeptical that a full Kingdom Come: Deliverance 3 could arrive so soon. However, a more likely explanation is that Warhorse is adopting a model similar to Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio’s Like a Dragon series by developing a smaller or more iterative release using existing technology, systems, locations, and other assets from Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 before building a new mainline sequel from the ground up.

Released

February 4, 2025

ESRB

Mature 17+ / Use of Alcohol, Blood and Gore, Sexual Content, Strong Language, Intense Violence, Partial Nudity

Developer(s)

Warhorse Studios