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Daniel Frederick Wallace (born 1976) is a Scottish comedian, author and presenter of radio and television. From 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.

Biography

Early career

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.[1][2]

In 2008, Danny Wallace was a panelist on an episode of Celebrity Mastermind with his specialist subject being "Ghostbusters".[3]

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.[4]

Assassin's Creed

He was initially offered the role of Shaun on 10 March 2009, the same night that he presented the Fable II team with the BAFTA award for Action/Adventure.[2] In an 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." His first appearance as Shaun Hastings was in Assassin's Creed II, released on 20 November 2009.[5]

In September 2010, Ubisoft announced that Wallace would be reprising his role in the then-upcoming sequel, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, the game was then released on 19 November.[6] Unlike the previous game, Brotherhood utilized more motion-capture and Wallace had his face filmed as he was being recorded so the animators could match his facial features to his character's.[7]

According to Wallace, he was asked by Corey May to write some of the material for Shaun Hastings in Assassin's Creed III.[8]

Wallace was announced to be a part of Audible's original Assassin's Creed audio-drama Assassin's Creed: Gold in November 2019.[9] Suspected to be playing his usual character of Shaun Hastings, it was later confirmed in February 2020, close to its release. It was then unveiled on the platform on 27 February.[10] He didn't play Hastings as a character per-say, but an artificial intelligence replica of the character.[11]

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References

  1. ↑ Danny Wallace talks about the BAFTA video games nominations on the BAFTAproductions YouTube channel
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 History. Writer and Presenter Danny Wallace. Archived from the original on 22 April 2021. Retrieved on 12 July 2018.
  3. ↑ Danny Wallace - Celebrity Mastermind on the DrTart YouTube channel
  4. ↑ Games in 2013. BAFTA Awards. Archived from the original on 12 June 2022. Retrieved on 12 July 2018.
  5. ↑ Arnott, Jack (30-10-2009). Interview: Danny Wallace - Assassin's Creed II. The Guardian. Archived from the original on 1 October 2015. Retrieved on 4 November 2014.
  6. ↑ Cullen, Johnny (23-09-2010). Danny Wallace to return for Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. VG247. Archived from the original on 26 September 2021. Retrieved on 7 September 2022.
  7. ↑ Danny Wallace's gaming return. ShortList. Archived from the original on 26 October 2010. Retrieved on 7 September 2022.
  8. ↑ Wallace, Danny (30-06-2012). Thomas Was Alone…. Writer and Presenter Danny Wallace. Archived from the original on 3 July 2012. Retrieved on 12 July 2012.
  9. ↑ Hunt, Julia (18-11-2019). Riz Ahmed and Anthony Head join Assassin’s Creed audio drama. Belfast Telegraph. Archived from the original on 7 September 2022. Retrieved on 7 September 2022.
  10. ↑ Phillips, Tom (27-02-2020). Assassin's Creed Gold's blind hero provides the perfect formula for audio drama. Eurogamer. Archived from the original on 19 December 2021. Retrieved on 7 September 2022.
  11. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Gold

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