The Direction of FALLOUT 5 Influenced the Story for the FALLOUT TV Series
Fans seem pretty excited about Prime Video’s Fallout series, which is based on the popular video game franchise. That first trailer released was awesome and while were all looking forward to that, Bethesda is continuing to develop Fallout 5, which is still a very long way off.
Fallout 5 isn’t expected to arrive until sometime after 2030, but there are core plot points and ideas in place for the sequel, and those ideas that have already been planned out ended up influencing the direction of the series.
This bit of insight came from Bethesda's Todd Howard during an interview with Den of Geek, where he talked about the conversations he had with Fallout showrunner Graham Wagner and writer and producer Jonathan Nolan, saying: "Well, there were some things where I said, 'Don't do this because we are going to do that in Fallout 5.’”
Who knows, maybe the Fallout series will bridge the gap between the events of Fallout 4 and Fallout 5. The series is set in future post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, and it will tell an original story based on the Fallout games and it’s been said that this new story will be part of the canon of the games.
Fallout is the story of “haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. 200 years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind — and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird and highly violent universe waiting for them.”
The world of Fallout is “one where the future envisioned by Americans in the late 1940s explodes upon itself through a nuclear war in 2077. In Fallout, the harshness of the wasteland is set against the previous generation’s utopian idea of a better world through nuclear energy. It is serious in tone, yet sprinkled with moments of ironic humor and B-movie-nuclear-fantasies.”
The series comes from Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, and it stars Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten, Walton Goggins and more.