Last year, Super Mario Bros.: the movie It was the second highest grossing film worldwide, only surpassed by Barbiey The Last of Us. It became one of the television fictions of the year on HBO, in addition to once again elevate the zombie genre to the realm of quality series as in the time of The Walking Dead. Another series based on the video game was also released Twisted Metalis not yet available in Spain, and The Pokémon Janitorboth on Netflix, the same platform that has audiovisual adaptations of Tomb Raider y Horizon Zero Dawn.
It doesn’t seem like any secret that The great video game franchises are coveted by Hollywood studios and for the services of streaming to reconvert their worlds into serialized fiction proposals or blockbusters in the making, as they combine two values to take into account: they have complex narrative universes full of possibilities and, in addition, they attract the attention of a huge mass of fans that already exist, that do not exist. you have to invent.
This time, now it’s the turn of Fallout what will land on Amazon Prime Video next Thursday, March 11. The new series is not only interesting because of the name of the video game franchise that it uses as a starting point, but also because of the name and career of its creators, the couple formed by Lisa Joy y Jonathan Nolan (who, in turn, is the brother of filmmaker Christopher Nolan, the author of Oppenheimer).
After co-writing several films directed by Christopher and creating the series Person of Interestthe youngest Nolan began to collaborate creatively with his wife on Westworld, one of the most relevant and complex science fiction series in recent years. Lisa Joy also had a career like her: she came from writing scripts for soap operas like Breeding Mallows y last notice.
Together they produced Reminiscencewhich Joy directed, which had Hugh Jackman as the protagonist, and supervised the already canceled The Peripheral on Amazon (a platform where they received a million-dollar contract after ending their employment relationship with HBO). In his signing it was assumed that the challenge of bringing to the screen a popular video game saga that began in 1997 and that, after four main installments and numerous spin-offshas sold more than 38 million copies.
But, as legendary Bethesda game designer Todd Howard, who also appears as a producer on the series, explained, The exact plot of any of the games will not be carried overbut rather a new, more or less parallel path will be chosen: “It is not about retelling the story of a game. It is basically taking a map of the territory and saying: let’s tell a story here that fits with the world we have built and Don’t break any of their rules,” he said on podcaster Lex Fridman.
That game world takes place 200 years after a nuclear war devastated the earth. The surviving humans live in relative comfort in underground shelters – also called “vaults” – while on the surface, undead life has mutated monstrously. Anyone who goes outdoors will face giant insects, zombies and robots. Unlike other sagas, Fallout It does not have a single protagonist, since the games span more than a century of fictional history.
In fact, the series will introduce us to new characters: Lucy (Ella Purnell), a resident of a vault whose leader is her father (played by Kyle MacLachlan) and who must now go outside for the good of the group; The Goul (Walton Goggins), a cowboy bounty hunter whose trademark is his missing nose; and the leader of the Brotherhood of Steel, Maximus (Aaron Moten). All of them, in one way or another, look for that something that justifies all post-apocalyptic stories: surviving.