By Amazon debuts the long-awaited TV series adaptation of the “Fallout” video game franchise soon, and series producer/director Jonathan Nolan says the aim of the show is to go beyond the game’s fanbase.
The games unfold in a post-apocalyptic United States. With each title, players take control of a different survivor trying to survive as they explore the outside American wasteland and defend themselves against the mutant creatures that now roam the Earth.
The series, which stars Ella Purnell and Walton Goggins, exists in the same world as the game but is its own thing. Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner are the showrunners.
Whilst many writers and producers have talked about pleasing and appeasing fans in recent years, Nolan has a different take on it saying trying to do a series that focuses entirely on pleasing fans would be a “fool’s errand”. He tells T3:
“I don’t think you really can set out to please the fans of anything, or please anyone other than yourself. 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 [ourselves], we would find the pieces that were essential to us… and try to do the best version… It’s kind of a fool’s errand to try to figure out how to make [other] people happy… You’ve got to make yourself happy. And I’ve made myself very happy with the show.”
Nolan himself is a big fan of Bethesda’s games which is partly why he co-created the show in the first place:
“It started, for me, with Fallout 3, which devoured about a year of my life. I was an aspiring young writer at that point, and it almost derailed my entire career. It’s so ludicrously playable and fun… seriously, the games were just incredible.
It’s such a rare and unbelievable thing that I’ve gotten to do twice in my career, to take something that you love and get a chance to play in that universe, to create your own version. The first go-round for me was Batman, and this time with Fallout – a series of games that I absolutely loved.”
The “Fallout” TV series will premiere on Amazon Prime Video on April 12th with all eight episodes available to binge on that date.
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