“The bar wasn’t very high” The Fallout series got off to a bad start, but this other acclaimed adaptation allowed it to raise its level

News culture “The bar wasn’t very high” The Fallout series got off to a bad start, but this other acclaimed adaptation allowed it to raise its level

A new successful adaptation

With the Fallout television series, video game adaptations are on the rise. A real success for Amazon: The series, which will be broadcast in full length on Prime Video from April 10th, has just been renewed for a second season. Excellent news that rewards the work of the production and confirms all the good things that the first viewers thought, while this first season has a press rating of 94% on Rotten Tomatoes and a public rating of 88%. A real success, This has also led to games experiencing a real resurgence in vitality as they are currently breaking popularity records on Steam.

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The Last of Us Revelation.

Last year, viewers around the world were able to discover the first season of The Last of Us, an adaptation of the game of the same name that was a smash hit. This HBO success, which proves that a video game adaptation can be cinematic and sophisticated, opened the door for a whole range of projects, according to Jonathan Nolan, who explained to The Hollywood Reporter that the Fallout series had never existed before The Last of Us can exist.

When we first had lunch with Todd (Howard), the bar wasn’t very high, in fact it was non-existent, especially for television. There would have been someone who wanted to adapt a first-person game and a studio would have said, “So the show will be from the first person perspective“No, it’s about the grammar of the game, not how to adapt it. It’s always nice to be the first. But when someone makes something as good as The Last of Us, it becomes easier because suddenly everyone understands what is possible.

For Jonathan Nolan, the first difficulty in video game adaptations was to make the difference between video game grammar and audiovisual grammar understandable and thus justify the entire purpose of the adaptation work. With The Last of Us, HBO and Naughty Dog paved the way for Fallout and possibly other ambitious video game adaptations. We obviously hope to discover new productions of this caliber in the coming years.