Actor Elias Toufexis has been very busy in recent years, playing space spy Kenzo in The Expanse, a rubber-headed alien in Star Trek: Discovery, as well as the Penguin in Gotham Knights and other roles. However, according to the actor, he has not yet heard anything about the reprise of the role that most gamers know him for: the protagonist of the Deus Ex prequel series, Adam Jensen.
Yes, I am very happy to be busy, but even more I would like to be busy with the new part of Deus Ex. I don’t have an NDA for Deus Ex because no one has called me about it. Is it true
Like J. Anthony Franke as JC Denton in the original game, Toufexis has done an amazing job of wringing the warmth and humor out of a man in a raincoat, wearing sunglasses, who knocks out guys and hides them in air vents to make a living.
This isn’t necessarily Jensen’s death hour, though – back in November, sources told Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier that the new Deus Ex was in a “very early stage” of development. It’s been nine months and you can drop one of those “very” when it comes to the anticipated development progress of the next Deus Ex. While Toufexis would have had a central role and many lines to record if he were the protagonist of the new Deus Ex, the actual recording of the voice lines takes place quite late in the development process of the game after the script is completed.
Eidos Montreal’s last release was Guardians of the Galaxy, a game that surprised us with its wit at the height of the Marvel glut. The studio passed from Square Enix to The Embracer Group last August and appears to have been unaffected by the recent spate of layoffs and studio closures at the mega-publisher.
