‘Fallout’ TV series aims to please no one, says Jonathan Nolan

Video game movies are on the rise. We live in a golden age where more series have made us smile than sad, but even award-winning works like ‘The Last of Us’ have found fans who had problems with the process of adapting the video game to the screenplay. For ‘Fallout’, the solution is simpler, and that is to accept how complicated it is to please the fans.

Before the release of the latest trailer this morning, Meristation had the opportunity to attend a press event with producers and actors who revealed some of the important pieces of this story and its characters. Among the questions asked by the attendees, they asked about the balance of satisfying the fans as well as creating something that attracts new audiences, to which Jonathan Nolan, executive producer of the series, commented that it is “kind of a fool’s errand.”

“I don’t think you really can set out to please the fans of anything or please anyone other than yourself,” he explained. “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, we would find the pieces that were essential to us and the games to try to do the best version of those that we can. I think it’s kind of a fool’s errand to try to figure out how to make people happy. And that way you’re gonna make yourself happy and I’ve made myself very happy with the show.”

Nolan, a Fallout 3 Fan

Prior to his comments, Jonathan Nolan commented on his love for the franchise and how it almost derailed his career. “I think it started, for me, with ‘Fallout 3′, which devoured about a year of my life. I was an aspiring young writer at that point. It almost derailed my entire career. It’s so ludicrously playable and fun. No, I mean, seriously, the games were just incredible.”

‘Fallout’ will be available in its entirety on Prime Video on April 11.