'Fallout' TV Series From 'Westworld' Creators In the Works At Amazon (hollywoodreporter.com) 27
According to Hollywood Reporter, "Amazon Studios has licensed the rights to the best-selling video game franchise Fallout, with married writers and showrunners Joy and Nolan attached to oversee the potential TV series." From the report: The project is currently in development but has a series commitment penalty attached. That means that if Amazon execs like the script, Fallout would bypass the traditional pilot stage and go directly to series (or if it is passed over, all involved would be paid out as if it had). A writer is not currently attached.
Making its debut in 1997, Fallout is set in the future envisioned by Americans in the late 1940s when the country explodes upon itself through a nuclear war in 2077. The series takes place in a harsh wasteland set against the previous generation's utopian idea of a better world through nuclear energy. Joy and Nolan will exec produce the series via their Kilter Films banner in association with game publishers Bethesda Game Studios and Bethesda Softworks. Kilter's Athena Wickham, Bethesda Game Studios' Todd Howard and Bethesda Softworks' James Altman will also exec produce.
Making its debut in 1997, Fallout is set in the future envisioned by Americans in the late 1940s when the country explodes upon itself through a nuclear war in 2077. The series takes place in a harsh wasteland set against the previous generation's utopian idea of a better world through nuclear energy. Joy and Nolan will exec produce the series via their Kilter Films banner in association with game publishers Bethesda Game Studios and Bethesda Softworks. Kilter's Athena Wickham, Bethesda Game Studios' Todd Howard and Bethesda Softworks' James Altman will also exec produce.
Well, shit. (Score:4, Interesting)
I have been hoping for a Fallout series for a long time but these two would be my second-to-last picks, right before Benioff and Weiss.
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Beat me to it. If anyone is unaware, Benioff and Weiss are the shit writers that messed up the last season of Game of Thrones. If they do not have a large amount of source material to steal from, like say a series of books, then their plots are crap.
Expect this show to be crap.
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Yes, that last season of tGoT was a complete disgrace. Such a shame.
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See Skyrim or FO4 where the main story lines have become pretty dumb and highly predictable. I fear for the next Elder Scrolls to be even written even dumber, like the Farcry games have been getting worse stories with each iteration. Fortunately for Bethesda a lot of their customers do not care that much about the story and rather get their money's worth of playtime because of the work the m
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Oh, so do I. I talked about this with my wife and she was actually more hopeful, saying that this is the kind of material they might be able to do well. They suffer when they try to get to clever. Fallout doesn't really bank on high concept philosophical ideas the way Westworld tried to.
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Agreed, they went "full retard" with it. It's ok for the characters to become megalomaniacs, but the writers followed right in their footsteps when they expanded the story and took it from the theme park and made it about the whole world.
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Indeed. I stopped watching Westworld because it just became tedious and boring after the 1st season. Some people can turn everything to crap.
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Westworld was good but a little too abstract and difficult to follow. The last series was better though so it seems they are improving.
Real RPG (Score:2)
The best thing about Fallout 1 and 2 is that you could beat an enemy or quest situation by using Fists or Dialog. If was up to you to create the character you wanted.
You could travel the Wasteland as a true open world and not be tied down to always fighting.
Also those Energy weapons had some wicked death scenes lol.
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The amount and quality of dialogue trees in the first 2 Fallout games is still close to unmatched in gaming today. Maybe Disco Elysium is a contender. Just look at the conversation you can have with The Master in Fallout 1 and how you can resolve essentially the plot of the game. These show runner's I hope (I know they won't) will take some heavy cues to the world those games (and New Vegas to a large extent) worked to create. It's not all Pip-Boys, winga-dinga aesthetic and old-timey music.
These violent delights have violent ends (Score:2)
They can even reuse the catchphrase.
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War. War never changes.
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And it wouldn't be the same without Ron Perlman.
Felson: Tell me Behmen, are we going in there to defeat a demon, or to save the girl?
Behmen: Both.
"...explodes upon itself"??? (Score:3)
What the heck does that mean? Everyone knows the US and China get in a nuclear exchange, are they trying to revise that? Admittedly, it does seem a little too timely these days....
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Re: "...explodes upon itself"??? (Score:2)
I would think China would like a story where they were both able to invade the US and basically completely destroy it
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But not directly.
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At least that is what I get from their attitude towards their own history. They try to keep up the illusion of a clean image, suppressing anything that suggests otherwise and then suppress the fact that they suppressed that. And so forth.
It doesn't work on an international scale. But it seems to
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Saving face.
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neat (Score:2)
Westworld was awesome... (Score:2)
Nice! (Score:1)