Bill Clinton Turned Down Voice-over Role in Fallout 3

May 22, 2009

Fallout 3 was maybe the best game of 2008. Could an appearance by Bill Clinton have made it even more memorable?

In an interview with Edge Online, Lev Chapelsky, general manager of Blindlight, a Hollywood-based firm which connects actors, writers and musicians with game projects, mentions that he tried to recruit the former president for voice work in Bethesda's best-selling action/RPG:

Celebrity acquisition applies not just to celebrity actors but to sports figures, politicians – we’ve made offers to Bill Clinton for videogames and gotten great responses with attorneys who have said, ‘The former president will not participate in one of your videogame products, thank you very much’...

What project did you ask Bill Clinton for?

I think that might have been to play the president in Fallout 3. Wouldn’t that have been brilliant? You get to that point in game and you hear that voice in the ether coming from off-camera and you’re like, ‘I know that guy!’

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Re: Bill Clinton Turned Down Voice-over Role in Fallout 3

Submitted by ZippyDSMlee on Fri, 05/22/2009 - 12:58.

But Presdint Edan is a dictator...Chaney would have been a better choice...... :P

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Re: Bill Clinton Turned Down Voice-over Role in Fallout 3

Submitted by killatia on Fri, 05/22/2009 - 14:54.

If that happened i would protect my face if i wetn hunting with a Chaney voiced computer.

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Re: Bill Clinton Turned Down Voice-over Role in Fallout 3

Submitted by T5 on Fri, 05/22/2009 - 09:03.

Al Gore would have done it

Re: Bill Clinton Turned Down Voice-over Role in Fallout 3

Submitted by Austin_Lewis on Fri, 05/22/2009 - 12:00.

Of course he would, he's a massive attention whore/liar.

Of course, his version would've been terrible compared to what the computer ACTUALLY sounded like and said, because Al Gore would've probably gone on a rant about creating the internet and winning a nobel prize (so Gore and Arafat have something else in common!), instead of reading the actual script.

Bill Clinton's voice, coming from a computer, would've sounded strange to me, personally. But it would've helped to push me towards talking that big-ass computer into frying itself.

Re: Bill Clinton Turned Down Voice-over Role in Fallout 3

Submitted by SithLibrarian on Fri, 05/22/2009 - 12:15.

Al Gore lent his voice to Futurama. He's okay in my book.

Having Bill Clinton in Fallout certainly would have been pretty cool.

Re: Bill Clinton Turned Down Voice-over Role in Fallout 3

Submitted by Austin_Lewis on Fri, 05/22/2009 - 13:29.

He's also a liar and a hypocrite. So if you're cool with that, whatever.

Re: Bill Clinton Turned Down Voice-over Role in Fallout 3

Submitted by SithLibrarian on Fri, 05/22/2009 - 19:47.

He's also ridden the Moon Worm. I'm okay with that too.

Re: Bill Clinton Turned Down Voice-over Role in Fallout 3

Submitted by Austin_Lewis on Fri, 05/22/2009 - 20:04.

Or so he says...

Re: Bill Clinton Turned Down Voice-over Role in Fallout 3

Submitted by Good Lord on Fri, 05/22/2009 - 14:11.

So he's different from any other politician HOW, exactly?

Oh, that's right, he's a liberal. Get the rope, Billy-Bob!

Re: Bill Clinton Turned Down Voice-over Role in Fallout 3

Submitted by Austin_Lewis on Fri, 05/22/2009 - 14:33.

That and he's manipulating the scientific community and the academic communities so he can make himself rich. Oh, and he's a smug motherfucker, don't forget that.

Re: Bill Clinton Turned Down Voice-over Role in Fallout 3

Submitted by JustChris on Fri, 05/22/2009 - 12:44.

Al Gore doll: "You are hearing me talk."

I know that was the Simpsons, and not Futurama.

GameSnooper

Re: Bill Clinton Turned Down Voice-over Role in Fallout 3

Submitted by hellfire7885 on Fri, 05/22/2009 - 08:31.

I doubt Mr Clinton was even apoproached with it, the attorneys likely made that decision themselves.

Re: Bill Clinton Turned Down Voice-over Role in Fallout 3

Submitted by Michael Chandra on Fri, 05/22/2009 - 08:18.

Man, if they'd managed that I'd have bought Fallout 3 immediately, just for the awesome.

Re: Bill Clinton Turned Down Voice-over Role in Fallout 3

Submitted by Aliasalpha on Fri, 05/22/2009 - 08:17.

It would have been interesting but I'd hate to have lost malcolm mcdowell

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