John Cleese is your butler in Fable 3
by Richard Mitchell 
on Mar 12th 2010 10:00AM
Peter Molyneux lives a fearful life. Ever since he promised the moon and failed to deliver with the original
Fable, he has been relentlessly trailed by PR ninjas. We were expecting a special
Fable 3 reveal during GDC, and Molyneux obliged, but not before checking with PR. During the
Fable 3 panel at GDC, Molyneux said that people have referred to
Fable as a "Monty Python-esque" game, and so Lionhead decided to recruit John Cleese himself to play your butler in
Fable 3.
He noted that Lionhead has record a "vast amount of AI dialogue" for Cleese, whose job as the butler is to "big you up, in a slightly sarcastic way." Unfortunately, Molyneux stated that the rights for Cleese's voice hadn't been secured "just yet," so we didn't get to see Cleese implemented in the demo. He's definitely a perfect fit for
Fable though, and we can only be thankful that he hasn't
run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible.
