Amazon Studios to develop series based on Fallout

[Absolutego]

The Fallout setting, as Bethesda understands it, is so nonsensical that anyone Amazon puts in charge of the series will probably laugh them out of the room after reading their notes.
I'm going to wait until I see any kind of trailer from Amazon before forming an opinion.

 

[Miller]

I leave it to Amazon to rape the lore senseless but they can't possibly make it any more dull. If you can make it through all of Fallout 3's expansions without falling comatose, hats off to you.

I wonder how the former Bad Robot people are going to ruin Lord of the Rings now that they're removed the lore guy after the death of the last Tolkien.

 

[Uranus Pink]

Closest we got to a good Fallout movie is Six String Samurai which is largely a homage to original Fallout.

 

[millais]

The Fallout setting, as Bethesda understands it, is so nonsensical that anyone Amazon puts in charge of the series will probably laugh them out of the room after reading their notes.
I'm going to wait until I see any kind of trailer from Amazon before forming an opinion.

Bethesda uses the fucking Fallout Wikia as their reference material for crosschecking canon/lore in their games. I can't wait for the same dedicated research staff to handle a TV series.

 

[Billy "the Bot" Bobson]

Fallout can't be adapted into another medium. Even the film treatment from 2003, good by today's standards, is bad.
Even the numerous New Vegas fan films are mediocre when you look past the "amateur charm".

 

[Mooger Meng]

Each episode has to begin with Ron saying "War never changes". If they don't, Todd will have done goofed.

I'd love to see them troll the shit out of the audience by taking the tagline to its (il)logical conclusion: pull a Haruhi Suzumiya and make the first several episodes exactly the same. Or, if that's too stunning and brave for them, keep all of the story beats the same and use different sets of actors in them, preferably getting their shit kicked in in every possible instance.

If you're going to waste the audience's time and the studio's money, don't do that shit by halves.

 

[Strange Wilderness]

Trying to think how they could make a Fallout TV series that doesn't anger the fans. If they do direct adaptations of the games it would anger fans who would see the show as canonizing certain choices in quest-lines. Best bet would be making a wholly original story set in the Fallout Universe using the lore and factions but in a setting completely distanced from the rest of the series so nothing from the Southwest or East Coast. Have some original pre-war relic cause problems up in Seattle or New Orleans and the locals have to try and deal with it alongside the Brotherhood and Enclave who have sent out scouts or have a base nearby, just because, and the Ghouls, Super Mutants, Deathclaws, Mysterious Stranger and who ever fits into Fallout lore.

 

[HeyYou]

Autism

Autism

Can you take this slap slap kiss shit to PMs?

 

[frozenrunner]

Fallout is a product of its time. A post-apocalyptic setting with a sheen of 50s Americana commercial propaganda must have felt scathing in the late 90s, when the dying Moral Majority was still trying to make life miserable for normal Americans with their hypocritical lecturing and endless purity spiraling. We, as gamers, accept the setting even now because it's what defines Fallout... but if you were to come into the series fresh, I don't think you could fully appreciate the point of the game's setting.

My point is an adaptation made now, even if it's faithful to the best of the games, is going to feel kind of toothless in an age where the Left has fully metamorphosized into the new Fundies. And we know they won't follow the games because it's the people behind Westworld, so... who needs or wants this show?

 

[Imperial Citizen]

Fallout is a product of its time. A post-apocalyptic setting with a sheen of 50s Americana commercial propaganda must have felt scathing in the late 90s, when the dying Moral Majority was still trying to make life miserable for normal Americans with their hypocritical lecturing and endless purity spiraling. We, as gamers, accept the setting even now because it's what defines Fallout... but if you were to come into the series fresh, I don't think you could fully appreciate the point of the game's setting.

My point is an adaptation made now, even if it's faithful to the best of the games, is going to feel kind of toothless in an age where the Left has fully metamorphosized into the new Fundies. And we know they won't follow the games because it's the people behind Westworld, so... who needs or wants this show?

I just want to see actors wearing vault suits and shooting lasers at practical effect protectrons. Fallout has its themes which have been greatly explored in the games, but you can't deny that it has an incredible aesthetic that would be fascinating to depict through a television series. If they can do an anthology series that would be great. If not, hopefully they set it in some part of America that hasn't been explored, like Montana. It would be fantastic to see mutated buffalo roaming the radioactive plains.

 

[Super Sad Smile]

My money is on it being a generic apocalypse story and is just using fallout to get attention.

 

[No. 7 cat]

Who says the Chinese are going to be at fault in the show? What if it all turns out to be the fault of Drumph?

I don't believe for a second that this'll work. The games have been going through a very steady decline for years. Everything about them has been getting lazier, and lazier. There's no way in this day and age that they aren't gonna weigh this down with uninspired, badly written woke bullshit.

The lore does have space to blame Vault-Tec, which they'll likely use as criticizing PRC is massively racist in this clown era, not as mega racist as a white person standing to a lippy basketball person, but very bad.

 

[Imperial Citizen]

The lore does have space to blame Vault-Tec, which they'll likely use as criticizing PRC is massively racist in this clown era, not as mega racist as a white person standing to a lippy basketball person, but very bad.

I don't think that they will be going big picture with the tv series. Stick to a smaller cast, get audiences introduced to the universe.

 

[Dang Woodchucks!]

I don't think that they will be going big picture with the tv series. Stick to a smaller cast, get audiences introduced to the universe.

Understand that yours would be the "common sense" choice... which is exactly the reason they won't do it.

 

[No. 7 cat]

I don't think that they will be going big picture with the tv series. Stick to a smaller cast, get audiences introduced to the universe.

I suppose building up the clues for who dropped the bomb would follow, or it could be left open. I wonder which game might provide the biggest inspiration, FO4, NV, FO3?

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Those Nuka Break shorts will probably be better than anything Amazon produces. Even this

is probably better and more lore friendly.

 

[anti SJW]

So this will be the first Fallout that will be seen at 1080p.

 

[Not Jewish Wario]

Some updates on the series were released today. The series plans to start production this year with Jonathan Nolan (Westworld) to direct the pilot.

The showrunners for the show will be Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner. Robertson-Dworet co-wrote Captain Marvel and the 2018 Tomb Raider, while Wagner served as an executive producer on Portlandia, Silicon Valley, and Baskets.

Source (Archive)

They've also apparently started casting calls as well.

Looks like were in for some grade A garbage to release sometime next year.

 

[Not Jewish Wario]

Filming is to begin next month in New York according to Collider (Archive). So far, Walter Goggins and Ella Purnell have been cast.

 

[Not Jewish Wario]

Added to the cast for Fallout:

Kyle MacLachlan
Xelia Mendes-Jones
Aaron Moten



Variety (A)