While waiting for more news on Fallout Season 2, producer Jonathan Nolan recently expressed his even more clear dissociation from the games.
During the Paley International Summit in New York, Inverse was able to interview Jonathan Nolan, executive producer of the hit Prime Video series Fallout. While filming for Season 2 was or will begin later this month, he spoke about what his adaptation brings to the already very dense universe of the games of the same name.
Fallout Season 2 will continue to feature Solitary Nomad
Even though adaptations of video games into series/films usually seem to have finally found favor with audiences, the task is anything but easy. While we need to be able to satisfy fans of the original games, we also need to be able to introduce an entire universe to laypeople. Some try not to take too many risks by doing a kind of “copy and paste” of a particular game, which often leads to unconvincing results. One formula that seems to work very well is adaptations that go in their own direction, as is the case with Fallout on Prime Video. In fact, we do not retrace the events of an existing game, but rather discover another story in a region of the United States not explored since the first works, with never-before-seen video game-level perspectives, such as flashbacks.
On the Inverse mic, Jonathan Nolan hinted that Fallout Season 2 will continue this momentum and differentiate even more from the games on which the series is based. “ It’s grammatically difficult to depict flashbacks in games, right? It’s one of the elements I like best in Season 1, and we’ll definitely be adding more of it in Season 2 “. The Prime Video series should therefore continue the theme of double temporality between before and after the nuclear apocalypse, especially through the prism of the ghoul masterfully embodied by Walton Goggins. Everything should take place in New Vegas, a place famous thanks to the monument of the same name from Obsidian Entertainment has now become a symbol of the license.
However, patience is required to see what Fallout Season 2 has in store for us. One would actually speak, with some optimism, of a release sometime in 2026. Hoping that no real bombs fall on our heads by then.
Source: Inverse
