Actor and comedian Gilbert Gottfried has leaked extremely exciting news for Kingdom Hearts fans: his work as Iago in Kingdom Hearts III has begun, which means English voice recording is underway.

That's because Gilbert Gottfried doesn't voice the talking parrot Iago, a role and persona he made famous in Disney's Aladdin, in the Japanese versions of the games. Those honors belong to Akira Kamiya and Tōru Ōkawa for Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II, respectively.

There's a fair chance this tweet will be deleted before long, so here's the screen-cap:

Recently, Square Enix promised that we'd hear more about both Kingdom Hearts III and Final Fantasy XV soon, before later confirming a presence at E3 2014. Both games made their grand debuts (for Final Fantasy XV, more of a re-reveal) at E3 2013. It's speculated that Final Fantasy XV will see release first, partly because it's been in development as Final Fantasy Versus XIII for so long. Then again, if Square Enix is already getting started on English localization, development could be coming along nicely. Could the fan feedback that was sought make a difference in the final product?

Either way, this news is all I need to sleep soundly tonight. I've waited far too long for this game.

EDIT (5/22): Of course, as @PSPenguin of PSNStores.com rightly points out on Twitter, some of the English voice actors for the series are returning to record dialogue for new scenes of Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded for the upcoming Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMIX. It's unknown what these scenes are, though character designer Tetsuya Nomura mentions that the cast was brought back for VO as long ago as last year. Additionally, it was reported that new lines for that collection had finished recording in March 2014 (though that may only apply to the Japanese cast).

PSU has reached out to Square Enix for comment on Gilbert Gottfried's tweet.

http://www.psu.com/a023390/Kingdom-Hearts-III-English-localization-may-have-begun-voice-actor-tweets-involvement

Nicee!!! I hope we get a new trailer in e3!

Hopefully they can get the game out by 2015, KH games have small worlds and I dont think this game is gonna take as long as say a FF game. 

Cool, guess this means we won't have to wait until 2020 after all. Maybe 2017.

2016 is the latest, the team that made DDD is making this.  That came out in June 2012, so assuming they took a little break this game started late 2012.  I'm putting my money on 2015, 3 years should be enough for a KH game considering the smale scale of the worlds.  Also parts of the game like the story were already done before the game even started development.

Heres a very well made fan one to hold u over til E3.  Square needs to hire these guys!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo02O7Z_4T8

Lol, I was joking. I can't wait to see more on KH3, and hope the game comes out next year.

We should really give credit to Sqaure Enix for making a third game, unlike Valve...

I'm sure they'll get around to it.........

Hard to tell, you never know with ppl loving to hate SE on this site.