Editor’s take: Fallout has the potential to be huge, however these type of issues are robust to get proper. Halo was in the same place not too long ago however by most accounts, the primary season got here up brief on Paramount+. Can Amazon do Fallout justice?
Amazon’s live-action tv adaptation of Fallout will hit Prime Video in 2024, the e-commerce large not too long ago confirmed on Twitter.
We first realized that Amazon had licensed the rights to Fallout in mid-2020, and recruited Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Pleasure to lead the mission. Nolan and Pleasure are maybe greatest referred to as the showrunners for Westworld, the HBO collection from 2016 that was primarily based on the 1973 movie by the identical title.
Westworld’s first season was an absolute masterpiece however most agree that it went downhill from there. The primary season has a rating of 87 p.c from critics and an viewers rating of 93 p.c over on Rotten Tomatoes. By the fourth season, the scores fell to 75 p.c and 55 p.c, respectively.
Amazon’s newest teaser confirms the collection can be set in Los Angeles with occasions targeted round Vault 33. Throughout Gamescom, Bethesda’s Todd Howard and Microsoft’s Phil Spencer shared a minute-long preview of the collection. The clip was proven throughout a presentation for Starfield, with Howard saying they’d no plans to place it on-line. It is the age of smartphones and the Web, nevertheless, so after all somebody recorded the snippet and uploaded it to YouTube.
The potato-quality video is not going to set the world on fireplace, however at the very least we get to see what these in attendance noticed. A handful of photographs from the present’s set have additionally leaked on the Web over the previous yr or so, and they’re arguably extra compelling than the Gamescom teaser.
Howard has been approached by film producers for greater than a decade about bringing Fallout to the massive display screen, however he at all times turned them down because it was by no means the fitting match. Howard finally reached out to Nolan concerning the franchise, and he agreed to assist make a present.