Imagine the world if Tom Selleck hadn't passed on the role of Indiana Jones. Similarly, it's come to light that a Hollywood casting director claims he submitted the role of Fallout 3's President-in-a-jar to Bill Clinton. On the third page of this interview, a casting director who works regularly for Fallout developer Bethesda makes an off-the-cuff claim that he's gone after Bill Clinton in the past. When pressed for what role, he says:

I think that might have been to play the president in Fallout 3.

Seriously, though, this isn't a serious story. Casting agents make long shots all the time. The fellow in question admits it's the sort of thing with a .001% chance of happening.

I'll eat my hat if Bill Clinton agrees to appear in a videogame, especially if it's a role that requires more than a half hour in a recording studio. McDowell has a lot of dialogue in Fallout 3 and there was no way a former US President was going to take on that sort of thing. It's one thing to do a cameo on The Simpsons. It's quite another to record a major role in a videogame.

Still, I know from first-hand experience with people who've had first-hand experience that Clinton has an agent here in Los Angeles. And it's a great "what if" story, right up there with an Indiana Jones who has a mustache.

(Thanks Blues News and No Mutants Allowed.)