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Not much information is known on the pre-announcement of the video game except that (according to some files) Grand Theft Auto V started development back in the middle of 2008, when Grand Theft Auto IV was released and started to be built off of the same engine.1 On July 14, 2009, Grand Theft Auto V was revealed to be in development according to an industry analyst and was reported on several gaming websites.2
When Strauss Zenick of Take-Two Interactive was asked about Grand Theft Auto V by an industry analyst sometime in August/September, he said that the game would not be announced for a long time.
November 2009#
On November 13, Dan Houser confirmed in the British newspaper, The Sunday Times, that a new Grand Theft Auto instalment was in the works. However, the setting or characters weren't decided at that time and the script would be "about 1,000 pages long".3
July 2010#
After the setting had been decided, some Rockstar developers visited Los Angeles around July 26http://www.vg247.com/2010/07/26/rumour-gta-v-is-set-in%E2%80%A6/
. They spent a minimum of "100 days" researching the areas, conversing with locals (including gang members and FBI agents) and looking at places like a prison.
For news and media at that time, the "Hollywood" setting became a major rumour in the next instalment of the Grand Theft Auto franchise.
March 2011#
The rumours of a new game started to circulate more when a casting call for "Rush" was discovered in March 2011, which was posted on November 22, 2010.45 People believed that it was the next Grand Theft Auto game since it was circulated by Telsey & Company, that has since worked with Rockstar Games in previous instalments. The casting names were completely different and included two scrapped characters known as "Mrs. Avery" and "Mrs. Bell", both of which were called "Mrs. A" and "Mrs. B". The page was removed in early 2012, but that didn't stop the Wayback Machine from archiving it.
Things generally stayed quiet again until the announcement.