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Fallout: Westworld Creators, Amazon Developing TV Series Adaptation

Published Thu, 02 Jul 2020 13:01:15 -0500

by Ray Flook

Last updated Thu, 02 Jul 2020 13:02:38 -0500

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For those hoping that Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy's next project would offer a warmer, more hopeful future, you're about to be disappointed. Fans of epic-level sci-fi action and drama, and in particular fans of "Fallout," should be feeling pretty good right about now (though with a cautious eye, we're sure). Nolan and Joy are teaming with Amazon Studios and Kilter Films (in association with the games' producers Bethesda Game Studios and Bethesda Softworks) to bring the video game franchise to the small screen. The duo will executive produce alongside Athena Wickham for Kilter Films, with Todd Howard as an EP for Bethesda Game Studios, and James Altman for Bethesda Softworks. Under the terms of the deal, the project would receive a direct series order if Amazon executives sign off of the scripts.

Joy and Nolan had this to say about the news in a 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."

The franchise's origin dates back to 1997 and is set in a world in which the future that we sew coming in the 1940s collides with the nuclear war realities of 2077, with Joy and Nolan look to reflect "the harshness of the wasteland set against the previous generation's utopian ideal of a better world through nuclear energy" by maintaining the gam'es "harsh tone" while making sure it's still "sprinkled with moments of ironic humor and B-movie-nuclear-fantasies" that game players expect.

For Howard, having Joy, Nolan, and Kilter involved was the combination the franchise needed to make a successful series jump: "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."

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