Fallout may the only Bethesda property that receives the live-action treatment, according to new statements that Todd Howard, the celebrated game designer, director, and producer behind some of today’s most popular RPGs, gave during a recent interview to the gaming press. Howard, who originally joined Bethesda in 1994, is credited as an executive producer on Amazon and Kilter Films’ new series, which began streaming yesterday on Prime Video.
Howard on whether he’s up for more adaptations:
- “I don’t know. There’s nothing in the works.”
- “Everybody asks, like, about Elder Scrolls, and I keep saying no also. And I would approach those – I’ll probably say no. You never know if someone’s gonna click.”
- “But I think [Fallout] really came out of, ‘we think things are aligning to do a high-quality job.’ It wasn’t forced.”
- “It was kind of a natural relationship and ‘hey, this sounds really cool.’ As opposed to, ‘we should have a show,’ right? It never came from that.”
As for how the Falllout series came to be:
- “Everyone wanted to make a (Fallout) TV show or a movie, and I was like, ‘nahhh.’ I wasn’t really feeling it.”
- “…[but] I met Jonah – Jonathan Nolan – and I love his work: The Dark Knight, Interstellar, Person of Interest, and then Westworld, and he and I kind of hit it off.”
- “And I felt like, ‘hey, do you wanna do this? I’d like to approach it like it’s another entry in the games.'”
- “Like, let’s do a new location, new story, let him and his crazy lunatic people he works with kind of do what they do…and we’re really happy with how it turned out.”
A part of the interview:
@ign Todd Howard says he’ll probably say no to other Bethesda adaptations. #fallout #tv #show #streaming #primevideo #bethesda #skyrim #ign #redcarpet #celebrity #premiere #gaming #videogames ♬ original sound – IGN
Amazon’s synopsis for Fallout, which is now streaming:
Based on one of the greatest video game series of all time, Fallout is the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. Two-hundred years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind—and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and highly violent universe waiting for them.
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That's ok. I'll probably say No too
1000% we will see a Skyrim Movie and/or Show in the future. 1000%.
I think producers will be the ones saying no when the fallout show falls on its face.
You'd be silly to think they'd stop after the first failed attempt, or the 20th failed attempt. Where you been the last 20 years?
I've been here and giant flops usually doesn't get a second chance. I know skyrim is not fallout, but it's bethesda which makes it basically the same.
I love how your take on the show is your own self fulfilling prophecy. LOL.
It's not a prophecy since I've written it after seeing the first episode. So far I see mixed reactions. First impressions are rarely where the needle will settle anyway, many people will realize that it is worse than they first thought.
Amazons likes to spin fails as wins, but their actions will speak louder than their words. If we see budget cuts for season2, or changes in filming locations that's more indicative of a failing show than anything they report.
I'm just saying it's awful easy to say numbers don't match because it's new. Numbers are 'falsely' high.
Lets see in six months of people are wanting more I suppose.
I will agree I wanted the wheel of time to be great but when they wrapped up the whole 13 book freaking story arc in the first season. I had a feeling things would be bad. (broad strokes wise not individual scenes.) I can go into detail if folks don't care about spoilers.
Yeah, look at all the "video game" big screen spin off over the years that never hit big or was a success, yet they still kept making them. Now that Sonic is doing pretty good on the big screen, Mario crushing the big screen and the shows that have been doing pretty good recently, the last of us, the witcher (kinda), Halo... they'll give their IPs a chance to do the same. You just watch. Regardless if Fallout fails or not.
If anything, Fallout is probably a test run for them to see how to do it. If it fails, they'll still learn something. If it succeeds, then they'll just repeat it with other IPs.
I don't know if Skyrim would be a good movie in and of itself, but more broadly The Elder Scrolls depicting the confluence and history of each of the race-origin lands interspersed with requisite Daedric meddling ... that might be a show. But it would need a compelling, all-encompassing, and great story behind it. So ... not anything Bethesda would be capable of successfully creating by themselves.
Yes you are right. I mean The Elder Scrolls. I just got a bad habit of referring to only Skyrim as that's the only Elder Scrolls game I've played so I refer to it all as Skyrim for some dumb reason.
There is so much content, so many different stories they can make up around the races, origins, factions, strong holds, you name it. They have it all in the vast world of The Elder Scrolls.
Oh yeah that was horrible.
The lotr spinoff wasn’t much better either.
Amazon has … The Boys, and Mayor or Kingstown and …. not a lot else going for it.
I still don't know how. Absolute garbage, both of those movies. The 3rd movie and the Knuckles show will be no different.
While the CG SMB movie was the least offensive video-game-based movie I have ever seen, it still didn't need to be made, and I have no idea why it is doing so well. It was barely okay.
Two words. Kids movies. Parents could go and stomach the content that the kids fell in love with.