Simon Pegg signs up for video game

...alongside John Cleese

Simon Pegg and John Cleese are to lend their voices to the next Fable video game.

They will join Nicholas Hoult, Bernard Hill and Michael Fassbender – as well as returning actors Zoe Wanamaker and Stephen Fry – in the third installment of the role-playing saga.

Pegg will voice an attention-seeking soldier named Benn Finn, while Cleese plays Jasper, pictured, a butler who guides the players along their journey to dethrone a tyrannical ruler.

Peter Molyneux, the creative director of Microsoft Game Studios Europe, said: ‘These people have really never come together before in any medium. For a lot of them, this is their first computer game they've ever done.’

Published: 27 Sep 2010

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