Live-action adaptations feel right for the popular franchise. Many fans, us included, have wondered when a live-action Fallout entry would see the light of day - and that’s definitely a “when” and not “if.” Luckily for us, the minds behind Fallout have considered the live-action route for a long time.
The Fallout Movie: Trial And Error
Fans waiting for a Fallout movie may want to take a seat for the following news. There is no planned Fallout movie coming anytime soon. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, when Interplay Entertainment owned the Fallout I.P., there were talks of adapting the series into a film. Fallout the movie had some legs as Interplay would go on to create a subdivision known as Interplay Films, which was planned to adapt their popular titles into films.
In 1998, Interplay commissioned Brent V. Friedman to write a treatment for a possible Fallout movie. The script followed the story of an assistant vault supervisor growing disgruntled with life in their Los Angeles Vault. The protagonist wants to lead a real life outside the vault and becomes emboldened after inspecting a G.E.C.K. device, eventually decides to escape, gains allies along the way, and by the end, leads a group that uses the G.E.C.K. to terraform a village in an arroyo, and start a new life outside the vault. If this story sounds familiar to some of you, this plot covers the first Fallout game’s key points.
According to Friedman, the script was worked on for quite some time until 2000. Whether the project would have been a success or failure is up to anyone’s guess because Interplay Films and the Fallout movie project would eventually be disbanded by 2000.
Fallout Live-Action Adaptation: Enter Bethesda
While Interplay’s plans for a live-action Fallout entry did not see the light of day, when Bethesda acquired the property, they also saw the potential for a live-action adaptation. Only a few months after the release of Fallout 3, Bethesda registered a trademark for a Fallout logo that would be used for “entertainment services in the nature of an on-going television program set in a post-nuclear apocalyptic world.” The registration was filed on February 05, 2009, but eventually was abandoned on March 25, 2013. A subsequent trademark was filed on January 08, 2013, but was also abandoned on January 02, 2017.
In an interview with Gameindustry.biz in March of 2016, Todd Howard explained there was no plan to move forward with a Fallout movie. At the time, Todd Howard felt that none of the ideas pitched across meetings seem to “quite clicked” and that if Bethesda were going to move forward with a movie, it should be done in a way that Bethesda wanted. Todd Howard and Bethesda’s concern was creating a live-action adaptation that could stand on its own and not feel like it could have just been done better as another gamer.
Fallout TV Show Cast And Release Date
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