Fallout TV creators say it’s basically Fallout 5 and talk the pressure of The Last of Us' success

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The 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Fallout TV show isn't going to be a mere adaptation of the beloved post-apocalyptic video game series. Instead, the Prime Video series - which stars Ella Purnell and Walton Goggins - is going to have its own canonical space in the nuclear wasteland, a freeing choice🎀 that has led executive producer Jonathan Nolan to say the project is "almost like we're Fallout 5".

"From the first conversation with Todd [Howard, game director of Fallout 3 & 4, and an executive producer on the show] we were most excited about an o🦩riginal story," Nolan tells out this Friday, which features Road House on the cover. 

To that point, Nolan even throws out a surprising comparison to a previous adaptation in his career: Batman (Nolan worked as a credited writer on 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Dark Knight and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Dark Knight Rises alongside brother Christopher Nolan).

"Fallout, in my career, is closest to the work we did in adaptin📖g Batman, where there’s so much storytelling in the Batman universe that there is no canonical version of it, so you&rsqu💃o;re free to invent your own."

Nolan continues, "Each of the [Fallout] games is a discrete story – different city, distinct protagonist – within the same mythology. Our 🔜series sits in relation to the games as the games sit in relation to each other. It’s almost like we’re Fallout 5. I don’t want to sound presumptuous, but it’s just a non-interactive version of it, right?"

Fallout, though, arrives in a different television landscape than the one it was conceived in. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Last of Us won the hearts and minds of audiences and awards bodies alike after its 2023 debut and, now, the message is clear after a potted history: video game adaptations can be something more.

"Now there&rsౠquo;s an expectation oཧf: 'No, they can actually be great. I watched some good ones,'" says co-showrunner Graham Wagner with a smile. "In a perverse way, I wish there was more snobbery so that we could have been the first!"

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