Culture Amazon Prime Video's Fallout sci-fi show won't just "please fans" of the games - "I think you have to come into this trying to make the show that you want to make and trusting that, as fans of the game [ourselves], we would find the pieces that were essential to us... and try to do the best version." the show's director said.

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Amazon will finally debut its most eagerly-awaited new series on its Prime Video streaming service next month and although, like The Last of Us, it's based on a video game, it hasn't solely been made for "the fans".

Speaking at a press event with T3 in attendance, the director and driving force behind the Fallout TV series, Jonathan Nolan, explained that setting out to simply appease the fans of the games would've been "a fool's errand".

"I don't think you really can set out to please the fans of anything," he said. "Or please anyone other than yourself.

"I think you have to come into this trying to make the show that you want to make and trusting that, as fans of the game [ourselves], we would find the pieces that were essential to us... and try to do the best version."

But those worried that the Prime Video series will deviate too much from Fallout lore needn't – Nolan himself is a big fan of Bethesda's apocalyptic RPGs, which prompted him to co-create the show in the first place.

"It started, for me, with Fallout 3, which devoured about a year of my life," he added.

"I was an aspiring young writer at that point, and it almost derailed my entire career. It's so ludicrously playable and fun... seriously, the games were just incredible.

"It's such a rare and unbelievable thing that I've gotten to do twice in my career, to take something that you love and get a chance to play in that universe, to create your own version.

"The first go-round for me was Batman, and this time with Fallout – a a series of games that I absolutely loved."

So does that mean he's happy with the end result?

"It's kind of a fool's errand to try to figure out how to make [other] people happy... You've got to make yourself happy. And I've made myself very happy with the show."

The Fallout TV series will premiere on Amazon Prime Video on 12 April 2024 with all eight episodes available to binge from day one.

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[innocent jogger]

The preview seemed to focus on a strong waman and a nigger for protagonists. I never knew that's what demographics made up the primary Fallout fan base.

I've always thought the original Wasteland would make a killer series (if actually adapted straight from the source). There is so much fun stuff spread out in that game.

 

[Misericordia]

Counterpoint: New Vegas fanboys are trannies and supercilious Redditors who get huffy if you say anything remotely unflattering about it, or if you liked something about 3 or 4.

And I'm saying this as someone who rates New Vegas in his personal Top 5 Vidya of all time. I have no qualms about talking shit about one of my favorites, just to piss off its blowhard fandom.

Counterpoint: Fuck off, retard.

 

[Begemot]

They're not wrong. Fans of the game will not enjoy a shitty adaptation of their favorite game.
Except the people who unironically play 76 'cause they'll take anything.

Except the LOTR films don't adapt everything; there's no Tom Bombadil, no "Ai, ai a balrog!", no Scouring of the Shire, unnecessary Arwen girlboss moments in Fellowship, Faramir being slightly more of a jackass, elves at Helm's Deep...
So in a way you're right, it did set the standard.

I mean, people who play Fallout 76 know how to play a game with actual soul, so there's that, sweetie....

 

[Meat Target]

Counterpoint: Fuck off, retard.

Counter-counterpoint:

You do not talk to your forum elders that way, newfag!

If I like you, you can call me Retard. BUT GUESS WHAT? I DON'T LIKE YOU! Do you understand?

 

[cybertoaster]

"I don't think you really can set out to please the fans of anything,"

You cunts never do, no game adaptation so far has been set to please the fans, they have all taken a huge shit on the fans and the canon because you're a bunch of egomaniacs who think you know what people want and you think people are as stupid as you are so you shit everything down to the intellectual level of the average LA citizen which has a room temp. IQ.

it hasn't solely been made for "the fans".

It never is, its all about the BRAND, thats all shittywood cares about, the BRAND so that people will watch it even if to confirm its complete shit, after all there's no refunds...

 

[The Backwards Man]

I'm sure Oxhorn will love it though, the Bethesda shill he is.

That fat nigga seriously thinks scientists can "retcon reality". Of course he would love amazon-betheslop

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

Remember to ignore it if you really don't like it.

We live in clown world, so this shit doesn't survive off views, it survives off engagement.

 

[Marmite Despiser]

"It started, for me, with Fallout 3, which devoured about a year of my life," he added.

fucking console peasant.

If amazon or netflix is involved, it's gonna be shit no matter what. But when you add in the fallout 3/bethesda mouthbreathers you get pure certified fucking monkeypox diarrhea.

Imagine guzzling todd howard's poz load and thinking you know Fallout and that you're qualified to produce a show based on it.

This is exactly on the same level as faggot fans of the ubisoft deus ex abominations who are missing the 30 extra iq points required to develop and appreciation or understanding of what made the original great.

This fucking guy.

Please yourself with a fencepost, cunt.

 

[BatterHomes&Gardens]

all of you guys are gay as shit for fighting about this

what did they change? i dabbled in the fallout games but they never really got me.

 

[The Lawgiver]

It looks way too fucking clean for fallout. Also seriously what the fuck is up with this lighting they put in every live action production the last year or 2?

 

[derpherp2]

Ah yes, nothing says atompunk wasteland than.. cowboys?

 

[Mortin Shart]

I'm not reading all that literary goyslop. Who's directing it? Genuinely curious, even though it doesn't matter, will be dogshit and I won't watch it. I honestly can't wait for fallout 5 to be some chase of your son/mother/dad across a wacky wasteland with the same ideas as fallout 3 just repositioned around some american city and rearranged, yet somehow not expanded on.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

Man, the moment that bitch went on a long speech about the ghoul being a big poopoo head, i knew what kind of people are behind this.

any other situation, the person would get shoot mid-sentence.

 

[Well Intentioned]

You are making an adaptation you fucking morons. Either adapt it warts and all, or don't do it at all. The original LOTR trilogy set the fucking bar 23 years ago, meet it or don't bother trying.

I am sick and fucking tired of being told to accept MAJOR changes in shitty adaptations that ruin the entire point of adapting it to whatever medium it is being adapted to. Your not a "fan" if you change everything people liked about the original in your shitty adaptation, your a talentless hackfraud who should have never been given the opportunity to begin with.

Just to be clear, I am fine with minor stuff getting changed or cutting the fat to meet the time limit. But just making major shit up because the writers are shit at their job and can't work it into the adaptation, or worse want to push politics down my throat is something that wasn't acceptable 10 years ago. Now its just exhausting to the point of complete disinterest.

I dislike adaptations/remakes that are clearly being done to try and provoke a particular reaction (eg, Female Ghostbusters.) That being said.

But there's something to be said for having a strong vision and doing something different. LOTR fans were sperging about Tom fucking Bombadil and how Arwen became a prominent character.

EG, Shakespeare's plays, as they were performed, had men filling all the roles. Yet I doubt anyone would object to having a woman play the role of Juliet or Lady MacBeth or whatever, and some of the adaptations over the years have been interesting (eg, Branagh's Hamlet.)

Major changes are fine. But you better be really good at your craft to go out on a limb like that, which a lot of these people who are plundering various media aren't.

 

[ZazietheBeast]

Ok. I can understand why adapting Fallout can be painful. Its a massive setting, lots of characters, lots of different philosophies and the story entirely depends on where you set it. There is also the fact that Fallout is best experienced with the choices you make. In short, you need to make sure everything is tight in order for it to work.

Clearly, Bezos gave zero fucks when he greenlit this.

Jeff Bezos should be brained with a golf club for this (and a litany of other reasons).

A man chooses. A wageslave obeys! Obey!

Knowing the track record of Amazon, they're gonna royally fuck up Bioshock if they were to adapt it. Even moreso with Infinite.

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

First of all fallout is not sci-fi it's post-apocalyptic Adam Punk
Second if you are trying to piss off your chord audience your show is going to be a flop also I've seen better acting in pornos then that trailer

 

[Kulee Baba]

It's this image in the trailer that amuses me. What good is it to shoot at someone in point blank range when they've got Power Armor?

 

[Snekposter]

what did they change? i dabbled in the fallout games but they never really got me.

Aside from turning Shady Sands, a key city hub of the first two Fallout games that would go on to unify all of California and lead to the rise of probably the first true nation-state in the post-war world into a crater? Aside from having the BoS use the ugly, hated FO4 style power armor and that even more hideous FO4 "assault rifle"? Aside from a mutant cyclops for a Vault Overseer? Aside from Los Angeles looking like a shithole when the NCR that grew out of Shady Sands would clean it out and re-establish some of its Pre-War greatness?

Of course, according to Razz its a shitty place for a kid to grow up in, but that's true now so its not like being nuked really changed anything there.

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It's this image in the trailer that amuses me. What good is it to shoot at someone in point blank range when they've got Power Armor?

Oh hey, that's an NCR flag that guy is waving. You can just make out a bit of the second bear's head. Might be some hope yet, assuming they didn't retcon things into the BoS wiping them out.

 

[Goodbye Horses]

I'm not reading all that literary goyslop. Who's directing it? Genuinely curious, even though it doesn't matter, will be dogshit and I won't watch it. I honestly can't wait for fallout 5 to be some chase of your son/mother/dad across a wacky wasteland with the same ideas as fallout 3 just repositioned around some american city and rearranged, yet somehow not expanded on.

Jonathan Nolan is directing the pilot, but don't take that as a sign of quality. It looks like another bait-and-switch, where they have his name all over the first season to draw people in, but it turns out that the show-runner is actually his wife, Lisa Joy, and she proceeds to run it into the ground, which is exactly what happened with Westworld.

 

[Tablet County]

all of you guys are gay as shit for fighting about this

what did they change? i dabbled in the fallout games but they never really got me.

Are you telling me you deliberately entered a thread regarding a topic you don't care for and now you're upset?
How could this be happening to you?