Fans have been waiting a long time for a Fallout TV adaptation, and while they have to wait a little longer, the show continues to take shape. The latest news from diversity reports that the Amazon show has found its showrunners and a director for the first episode, Jonathan Nolan, the co-creator of HBOs Western world.
Though Nolan was first associated with the project as executive producer Western world‘s other co-creator Lisa Joy, when the series was announced in 2020, Thursday’s news is the first that he would have something more directly to do with it.
“Fallout is one of the greatest game series ever,” said Joy and Nolan in a statement back then. “Each chapter of this incredibly imaginative story cost us countless hours that we could have spent with family and friends. So we’re incredibly excited to work with Todd Howard and the rest of the brilliant lunatics at Bethesda to bring this massive, subversive, and darkly hilarious universe to life with Amazon Studios. “
At the top of the series are Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner, both of whom have their own genre references. Robertson-Dworet wrote the scripts for. written down Tomb Raider (the 2018 version with Alicia Vikander), Captain Marvel, and an upcoming Star Trek movie. Wagner comes with many credits in notable TV shows, including The office, Portlandia, and Silicon Valley.
Like Arcane, the Netflix show produced by both the streaming site and Riot Games who Stand out The series is produced by Amazon Studios with Bethesda Game Studios and Bethesda Softworks.
Just like the Games, the show will take place on an alternate timeline in which the nuclear war between China and the US turns the world into a nuclear wasteland. Remnants of humanity emerge after the dust settles and new civilizations begin to form (often with quirky ’50s-style aesthetics and technology).
Little more is known, however, about how the show plans to customize the Fallout universe. At this point, the narrative spans three centuries in more than a dozen video and board games.
