Fallout: the movie?
Considering how many Game of the Year lists it made, it's surprising there hasn't been more discussion about a movie based on the hit videogame FALLOUT 3.
Developer Bethesda may be giving some thought to the possibility, or at least taking precautionary measures. As Joystiq points out, the company recently filed trademarks for the brand as "motion picture films about a post-nuclear apocalyptic world," as well as "entertainment services in the nature of an on-going television program." Whether any studio or talent is actually involved or interested at this point remains unknown.
While it has a rich world and some groovy 50s retro designs, I'm not sure how well the game might translate to the screen given how much of its unfolding story is conditional on the multitude of individual decisions made by players (and besides, like sex and volleyball, it's more fun to be involved than watch).
But the remarkable expanse of FALLOUT 3 can't be argued -- I got it at Christmas and I'm still wandering the burned-out landscape of future Washington DC and its surrounding mutant-filled environs. And war... war never changes.
Source: Joystiq
Extra Tidbit: Bethesda was responsible for some of the earliest TERMINATOR games, including the acclaimed TERMINATOR: FUTURE SHOCK. Training ground for FALLOUT 3?




































































































5:45PM on 04/21/2009 Add as a friend | MFC profile
p.s. sucks that jackson cant help out with Halo :(
11:20AM on 04/21/2009 Add as a friend | MFC profile
Actually, they could make a crazily ...
Actually, they could make a crazily cool Fallout HBO series. The only real budget-breaker would be the mutants, depending on how they did them.
9:25AM on 04/21/2009 Add as a friend | MFC profile
The important thing here is to remember to focus on just the very superficial aspects of the world, like vault dwellers, and '50s retro, and keep a cutthroat sense of humor.
The important thing here is to remember to focus on just the very superficial aspects of the world, like vault dwellers, and '50s retro, and keep a cutthroat sense of humor.
Any movie based on the Fallout games won't be definitive, but if it treats the world as a cinematic entity, it could work out.
3:34AM on 04/21/2009 Add as a friend | MFC profile
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Shack: You guys trademarked the Fallout name for movies and television recently. Was that related to a specific project, or..?
Pete Hines: That's more part of, we spent a lot of time developing Fallout into something that is very hot. It h...
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Shack: You guys trademarked the Fallout name for movies and television recently. Was that related to a specific project, or..?
Pete Hines: That's more part of, we spent a lot of time developing Fallout into something that is very hot. It has a lot of people's interest--
Shack: So you're just protecting it.
Pete Hines: --and we just want to be make sure that we're protecting what we created. And I can tell you, we've gotten a ton of interest about those kinds of things, not just with Fallout, but over the years. And it was just a, "Let's make sure that we're protecting what is ours and not letting somebody else do anything with it." So it's more of that, and it is not in response to any specific project or initiative or anything in particular.
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The game is fun, and as long as the movie keeps the same mean spirited humor then I'm all for it.
The game is fun, and as long as the movie keeps the same mean spirited humor then I'm all for it.
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