Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Actor Ben Starr Joins Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson and Brie Larsen as Voicing a Member of Fortnite's Heroic Seven

Epic Games has formed Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 histrion Ben Starr arsenic a cardinal in-game Fortnite character, pursuing successful the footsteps of Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, Brie Larsen and Joel McHale.

Starr's crook arsenic dashing Clair Obscur leader Verso is arguably his astir celebrated relation to date, and earned him a 2nd information for champion performer astatine some past year's Game Awards and the forthcoming BAFTA Game Awards. You whitethorn besides person heard his vocal talents arsenic Clive successful Final Fantasy 16 and Prometheus successful Hades 2.

Now, Starr's acceptable to prima successful Fortnite arsenic The Visitor, 1 of the game's cardinal NPC characters who volition yet rejoin the conflict royale mode's storyline (and speak!) aboriginal this month.

The Visitor is 1 of Fortnite's heroic Seven, a set of intergalactic heroes who often crook up to prevention the time during its memorable unrecorded events. Indeed, the quality of the Visitor was really the absorption of the game's precise archetypal unrecorded lawsuit — 2018's rocket motorboat — though helium has seldom been heard, until now.

Over the years, players were introduced to much of the Seven, including its pb subordinate The Foundation (played by Johnson), The Scientist (McHale), The Paradigm (Larsen), The Origin (Rahul Kohli), The Imagined (Cherami Leigh) and The Order (Laura Bailey).

After being written retired of the game's communicative successful 2022, players were reintroduced to the squad pursuing the events of past year's climactic Zero Hour finale, which besides featured a recap video mounting up Fortnite's existent Chapter 7 epoch — offering a speedy reminder of who the Seven were and what they were up against. You tin ticker that again conscionable above.

Alas, not each of the Seven are inactive standing, and Starr's incarnation of The Visitor is simply a antithetic 1 to the original. In a clever twist, the game's OG mode, which offers Fortnite's archetypal conflict royale map, is considered a abstracted multiversal reality. It's from present that Starr's mentation of The Visitor volition get successful the coming days — pursuing the OG mentation of that archetypal rocket lawsuit — successful bid to assistance prevention the time and talk for the archetypal time.

Today's Fortnite update included datamined dialog lines wherever Starr's dependable is unmistakable. Long-term Fortnite fans volition besides beryllium pleased to perceive the instrumentality of the Seven's AI adjunct AMIE, who sounds similar she is erstwhile again voiced by the prolific dependable histrion Erica Lindbeck.

"I'm joining Fortnite arsenic The Visitor," Starr confirmed contiguous connected Twitter/X. "I'm truthful excited to bring backmost this iconic subordinate of The Seven. I ideate I'll beryllium precise mean astir it."

Image credit: Ben Starr

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