Danny Wallace
Daniel Frederick Wallace, also known as Danny Wallace, is an English comedian, author and presenter of radio and television. For Assassin's Creed II onwards, he provides the voice and model for Shaun Hastings.
He is also the creator and "ruler" of his own country, named "Lovely", and his memoir, Yes Man, was loosely adapted into the 2008 movie of the same name starring Jim Carrey.
Danny Wallace once entered into an episode of "Celebrity Mastermind" with his specialist subject being "Ghostbusters".
Wallace is also the narrator of the puzzle-platformer indie game Thomas Was Alone, for which he was named Best Performer at the 2013 British Academy Games Awards.[1]
Assassin's Creed works
- Assassin's Creed II (2009) - Shaun Hastings
- Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (2010) - Shaun Hastings
- Assassin's Creed: Revelations (2011) - Shaun Hastings
- Assassin's Creed III (2012) - Shaun Hastings
- Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (2013) - Shaun Hastings
- Question the Creed (2014) - Shaun Hastings
- Assassin's Creed: Unity (2014) - Shaun Hastings
- Assassin's Creed: Syndicate (2015) - Shaun Hastings
- Assassin's Creed: Gold (2020) - Shaun Hastings (AI)
Books
- Are you Dave Gorman? (co-written with Dave Gorman) - 1999
- Join Me - 2003
- Random Acts of Kindness: 365 Ways To Make the World A Nicer Place - 2004
- Yes Man - 2005
- Danny Wallace and the Centre of the Universe - 2006
- Friends Like These - 2008
- Awkward Situations for Men - 2010
- More Awkward Situations for Men - 2011
- Charlotte Street - 2012
Trivia
- According to Wallace, he was asked by Corey May to write some of the material for Shaun Hastings in Assassin's Creed III.[2]
- He was initially offered the role of Shaun on the same night that he presented the Fable II team with the BAFTA award for Action/Adventure.[3]
- In a 2009 interview with The Guardian, Wallace described it as "weird" that "as the gamer you can just go up to me and start bothering me by just pressing the button, and you know I'll just get more and more annoyed - which I think my wife will enjoy doing."[4]
- In the 1990s, Wallace wrote video game reviews for a number of gaming magazines based in Bath, including Sega Power, Total!, SuperPlay, GamesMaster, and Ultimate Future Games.[5][3]
References
- ↑ Games in 2013, British Academy of Film and Television Arts
- ↑ DannyWallace.com blog "Thomas Was Alone…" June 30 2012
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 DannyWallace.com, History
- ↑ Interview: Danny Wallace - Assassin's Creed II
- ↑ Danny Wallace talks about the BAFTA video games nominations, BAFTAproductions, March 23, 2009
External links
- Danny Wallace at the Internet Movie Database.
- Danny Wallace's official website.