Amazon Studios has just announced a Fallout TV series by Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy as producers.
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Variety reports that Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy are developing the Fallout show on Amazon based on the popular video game RPG franchise Bethesda.
Bethesda Game Studios will participate in the development of the show and series director Todd Howard will serve as executive producer on the show.
“Fallout is one of the best game series of all time. Each chapter in this incredibly imaginative story has cost us countless hours we could have spent with family and friends. So we are incredibly excited to partner with Todd Howard and the rest of the Brilliant crazies at Bethesda to bring this massive, subversive and darkly fun universe to life with Amazon Studios, “Joy and Nolan said in a statement.
“In the past decade, we have seen many ways to bring Fallout to the screen,” Todd Howard said in a statement. “But it was clear from the moment I first spoke to Jonah and Lisa a few years ago that they and Kilter’s team were the ones who did it right.”
Fallout is a series of RPG video games set in the post-apocalyptic wasteland of nuclear war. Bethesda purchased Fallout IP from Interplay in 2007 and turned the isometric RPG series into a first-person RPG with Fallout 3. Bethesda went on to create Fallout 4 and Fallout 76.
Plot or casting details have not been revealed, making it unclear whether Nolan and Joy are creating an adaptation of one of Bethesda’s Fallout games, or a new series set in the Bethesda universe.
Matt Kim is an IGN reporter.
