Rockstar has not said a word about Daft Punk, and that is the most important part of this story. A music-leak account posted on October 19 that Rockstar pitched the retired French duo a comeback for the GTA VI soundtrack with what it described as an effectively unlimited budget, and that Justice became the second choice after Daft Punk passed. The claim travelled from X to a dozen gaming and dance-music outlets inside two days. None of it is confirmed.
Here is what is actually on the record. On October 15, alongside the launch trailer, Rockstar announced that Justice composed the original score for Grand Theft Auto VI. The duo's new track "Flower in a Hurricane" features Tame Impala, SZA, and King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, and Rockstar's music page lists it among the singles from the 34-track album arriving with the game on November 19. That part is official. It is also the only part anyone has put their name to.
The Daft Punk side rests on one anonymous account with a history in French electronic leak circles. Rockstar has not commented. Daft Punk's representatives have not commented. Justice has not commented. Sony, which owns the publishing relationship for much of this music, has not commented. A single unverified post is a lead, not a find, and the outlets repeating it have mostly been careful to say so.
What makes the rumor stick is not evidence. It is timing and fit. Daft Punk split in February 2021 and have released nothing since. Thomas Bangalter has spent the intervening years saying, politely and repeatedly, that a reunion is not on the table and that he wants to explore other things. A vice-city soundtrack scored by the two robots who built the French touch sound would have been the most obvious piece of casting in the medium, and an open checkbook is exactly the incentive people assume would change a no.
There is a real wrinkle in the confirmed record that gives the story its texture. Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, one half of Daft Punk, is credited as a producer on "RHYNO," the Travis Scott track on the GTA VI album. One of the two men reportedly offered the reunion is already on the tracklist under a different job title. That is the kind of detail that reads as a wink if you already believe the rumor, and as ordinary session work if you do not. It is certainly not proof of anything, and nobody has suggested it is.
The honest reading is that GTA VI's score is settled and the story of how it was settled is not public. Rockstar does not discuss its negotiation history. Publishing contracts are confidential by default. The people who could confirm or deny the pitch have every professional reason to stay quiet, which means the claim can circulate indefinitely without ever being tested. That is the shape of a story that cannot be resolved before launch, only after, and probably not then.
For players the practical answer is simple. Justice is scoring the game. The album is 34 tracks and lands November 19. Daft Punk are not reuniting for it, and no one has claimed they are. If the pitch happened, it is a piece of music-business trivia that changes nothing you will hear on the soundtrack. The version of this story worth repeating today is the confirmed one, and it fits in two sentences.
What would change that? A statement from Rockstar, a comment from Daft Punk's management, or a second independent source that is not repeating the first. Until one of those arrives, treat the unlimited budget as a nice idea about a game that already has its composers.