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‘Fallout’ TV series will be “Fallout 5″, says executive producer
Jonathan Nolan (‘Westworld’) talks about his upcoming series and how the freedom of his world allows him to create a new chapter in the franchise.
The world of video game adaptations to other media continues to grow, and one that is about to arrive is Fallout’s Wasteland via Prime Video. Ahead of its premiere, Jonathan Nolan, its executive producer, spoke with Total Film about the series, mentioning that aside from being the closest thing to his work adapting Batman with his brother Christopher Nolan, he thinks this series will be “almost like we’re Fallout 5.”
The Fallout adaptation, from video game to TV
During the interview, Nolan emphasized the work that went into bringing Fallout from the video game to the big screen, betting on an entirely new story in a world that lives within its mythos. “From the first conversation with Todd [Howard, game director of Fallout 3 & 4, and an executive producer on the show] we were most excited about an original story,” Nolan told the magazine. “Each of the [Fallout] games is a discrete story – different city, distinct protagonist – within the same mythology. Our series sits in relation to the games as the games sit in relation to each other. It’s almost like we’re Fallout 5. I don’t want to sound presumptuous, but it’s just a non-interactive version of it, right?”
For Jonathan, the work was close to adapting Batman, as there is freedom to invent elements for the narrative. “Fallout, in my career, is closest to the work we did in adapting Batman, where there’s so much storytelling in the Batman universe that there is no canonical version of it, so you’re free to invent your own.”
Fallout, Getting Closer
Only in November did we begin to see the first glimpses of the Wasteland in live-action. Prime Video released the first trailer for the series during CCXP before a series of posters and images gave us our first look at the series. For now, and before receiving more details about this series that will be part of the official canon of the franchise, we have these details about the story:: “When a crisis forces Lucy to venture above on a rescue mission, she finds that the planet above remains a hellscape crawling with giant insects, voracious mutant animal ‘abominations,’ and a human population of sunbaked miscreants who make the manners, morals, and hygiene of the gunslinging Old West look like Downton Abbey.”
Fallout will premiere on Prime Video exclusively on April 12, 2024.