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.

(Image credit: Amazon Prime Video / Future)

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.

Article Link

Archive

 

[Stoneheart]

I can see them melting down after people start legion posting on X...

 

[DootSkeleton]

Now if only somebody would upload a copy with Japanese audio so I can see for myself.

Like absolute hell will I listen to Jack Black as Bowser.

It's honestly worth the watch even in English. It's not trying to be anything more than an entertaining ad for Mario stuff. Imo it succeeded.
As to the voice acting specifically: each celebrity VA is putting on a voice and they did a good job. Though you occasionally can hear a slip and hear their natural voice, for the most part it's good. One notable exception is the Peaches song where it's very clearly Jack Black. Though imo the biggest affront was that kike Seth Rogan as DK.
Nintendo is autistically protective over their biggest cash cow and you can tell they didn't let Hollywood Jew it up as much as Hollywood wanted to.
I hope the Luigi's Mansion movie gets made cuz Charlie already said he was down for it. I bet that would be a really fun watch

 

[Unarmed Gunman]

Prime for fast/cheap shipping, fmoviez for all the streaming.

Literally WHY don't people use fmoviez for everything? All streaming and all encoded media is on it, free. Hook up a damn PC with hdmi to a TV if you have to, it's freaking worth it just to have every single media (more or less) streamed from one place, free.

Well for one, they don't have everything. I just did a search for 5 movies and they had 1 of them. But it is a great resource to have in rotation for mainstream shit.

 

[Tablet County]

I can see them melting down after people start legion posting on X...

Or we get the return of the Sneedclave.

 

[Kulee Baba]

Though imo the biggest affront was that kike Seth Rogan as DK.

Since you mentioned Seth I’ll be potentially controversial; I would have more optimism for a Fallout show if Seth was producing over Jonathan Nolan. Rogen’s The Boys and Invincible are fun goofy tv shows that treat the source material with respect. Nolan’s Westworld is worse than anything Seth has done.

 

[Snekposter]

Since you mentioned Seth I’ll be potentially controversial; I would have more optimism for a Fallout show if Seth was producing over Jonathan Nolan. Rogen’s The Boys and Invincible are fun goofy tv shows that treat the source material with respect. Nolan’s Westworld is worse than anything Seth has done.

I can honestly see a fun, goofy Fallout working. FO1 gave us a dude with a seedling in his head (okay, technically not yet but you could fudge it a little and have some plant growth), a psychic fatso with MPD and delusions of grandeur, creepy robed cultists, and a bunch of weird metallic monks living in a cave in some hills. Could even CGI up an African-American into a Glowing One and have him claim to be a pre-War CIA agent and that wouldn't break the setting at all.

"Yeah, I worked for the CIA before the bombs fell. What's it to you, smoothskin?" Could go the extra mile and have him be based and hate the Chinese to flip the meme on its head.