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Falloutis the latest video game franchise to receive a live-action adaptation and fans were blown away by the showrunner’s attention to detail. Adapting a video game to a different medium has been challenging for most filmmakers; however, this project had the advantage of having a fan at the helm.
The filmmakers are faced with the daunting task of expanding the franchise without alienating the established fan base of the source material. Easter eggs are secretly and cleverly placed throughout the series for hardcore fans to discover, while there are some that not even the director was able to spot.
One Minor Character Was Authentically Adapted Into the Live-Action Fallout Series
The gaming community applauds the efforts made byBethesda Game Studiosand Amazon Prime Video with this live-action adaptation. Todd Howard served as a producer for the series, and his input was essential to the live-action adaptation as he laid the groundwork andestablished certain parameters of what theFalloutseries can utilizeand what should be avoided.
This project has a competent group of writers and a director who is a fan of the video game series, which is a huge sigh of relief to the gaming community.
Director Jonah Nolan hired Michael Harvey as head of the makeup department and his reputation precedes him. Harvey was influenced by the source material and sharedin a recent interviewthat Nolan instructed him to avoid doing a carbon copy, but make it feel authentic and familiar.
“Jonah [Jonathan Nolan] explicitly told me, use the game as a reference,”
Harvey continued by revealing that his team can design the world as they see fit.
“lean into the world for what it is, and take the elements from that world,”
However, Nolan was adamant about standing apart from the game visually.
“Don’t carbon copy anything,”
There is one rare instance where Harvey could not resist and jumped the gun and took one actor who shares the same features as Cricket, a minor character fromFallout 4, and injected her into the game without Nolan anyone noticing.
“Nolan didn’t catch it. The writers didn’t catch it. But boy, Reddit caught it, and they went wild for it. They went nuts over it, and they’re like, ‘We know exactly who that character is. We can tell you what game, what map, and what that person was.'”
Aaron Moten, one of the stars recalls howevery day presented a new challengeon set. Production design may sound easy on paper; however, it takes a team of dedicated artists to manifest a fictional world to reality authentically and Harvey passed with flying colors.
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TheFalloutTV show was a massive success because the people behind the project wanted it to succeed. Little details may go over the heads of casual viewers but hardcore fans will be there to spot every single one of them which is a testament to the franchise’s influence.
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The series benefitted frombeing an original storyand not a retelling of a previous game. The franchise expanded in a different format, a massive win for interactive storytelling.
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Visuals are an important factor that could appeal to the general audience and catch the eye of the gaming community. First impressions last and the production design team did not hold back.
Amazon Prime Video earned another successful show thattrumped the previous viewership recordsby other shows. It proves that video game adaptations can thrive.
Jonathan Nolan is a huge fan, but Harvey was a bigger fan and concealed one reference. Hopefully, more will be added in the second season.
What are your thoughts about theFalloutshow? Let us know in the comments section below!
Rouvin Josef Quirimit
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Piqued by his interest in superheroes during the early days of Marvel movies, Rouvin fell in a rabbit hole of pop culture. His passion for movies led to video games and he fell in love with God of War, The Last of Us, Uncharted, Red Dead Redemption, and more great single-player games that paved the way for his career as a gaming writer.
