WESTWORLD Creators Are Now Making a FALLOUT TV Series for Amazon Studios!
Fallout is an a beloved gaming franchise from the minds at Bethesda, and it looks like now it’s getting adapted into a television series. Amazon Studios has licensed the rights over to Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan, the creators and executive producers of the hit television series Westworld! Their Kilter Films production company will be producing the Fallout series alongside Bethesda Game Studios and Bethesda Softworks.
If you’re not familiar with the franchise, here’s a brief description:
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.
Talking about their excitement for the project, Joy and Nolan released the following statement:
Fallout is one of the greatest game series of all time. Each chapter of this insanely imaginative story has cost us countless hours we could have spent with family and friends. So we’re incredibly excited to partner with Todd Howard and the rest of the brilliant lunatics at Bethesda to bring this massive, subversive, and darkly funny universe to life with Amazon Studios.
Albert Cheng of Amazon Studios said:
Fallout is an iconic global franchise, with legions of fans worldwide and a rich, deeply compelling storyline that powers it. And Jonah and Lisa are the perfect storytellers to bring this series to life. We’re thrilled to join with Bethesda to bring Fallout to television.
Todd Howard of Bethesda Game Studios is excited that Fallout is finally making its way to “the screen” after toying with the idea for the last decade:
Over the last decade, we looked at many ways to bring Fallout to the screen. But it was clear from the moment I first spoke with Jonah and Lisa a few years ago, that they and the team at Kilter were the ones to do it right. We’re enormous fans of their work and couldn’t be more excited to work with them and Amazon Studios.
There’s no word on when Fallout will launch, but I would imagine it’s a good way off. I’m genuinely excited for this show and think there’s a lot of potential.
Via: Deadline