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Topic: Fallout [Action, Sci-Fi]
https://next-episode.net/fallout
Just wanted to share what I found at https://entertainment.slashdot.org/stor … production: Amazon Prime Video's adaptation of the Fallout franchise of video games is entering production this year, and its two lead writers have been named, according to reports in Deadline and Variety. Ars Technica reports: It was previously known that Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy (who worked together on HBO's Westworld) would be executive producers, and Variety and Deadline both report that Nolan will direct the first episode of the show. But Nolan and Joy will not be the primary creative leads on the series. Rather, Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner have been attached as showrunners. Robertson-Dworet wrote the screenplays for the superhero movie Captain Marvel and the 2018 Tomb Raider film adaptation. She is also writing a future Star Trek film planned for release in 2023. Wagner is best known as one of the main writers on the sketch comedy series Portlandia and for work on modern sitcoms like The Office, Silicon Valley, and Baskets. Robertson-Dworet brings the science fiction and action/adventure credentials, and Wagner brings the comedy, covering two foundations of the Fallout franchise's narrative style. For those unfamiliar, Fallout is a long-running video game franchise set in a post-apocalyptic alternate future where a cold war between China and the United States turns hot, leaving the world in a brutal nuclear winter with mutated creatures and violent bandits. Despite the grim setting, the series is known for its sense of humor as much as its darkness, with pop culture references, a 1950s aesthetic, heavy influences from pulp science fiction, and biting satire of American capitalism. The series originated as a slow-paced, top-down role-playing game on the PC in the 1990s, but the intellectual property was later bought by game publisher Bethesda Softworks.
(Quoted text includes links on the linked page.) I'm not a gamer, but I heard good things about Fallout, and I've (mostly) enjoyed https://next-episode.net/westworld so far, so this could be good! By the way, Jonathan Nolan is a brother of director Christopher Nolan (The Dark Night, Inception, ...)
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Re: Fallout [Action, Sci-Fi]
I have several hundred hours of Fallout time logged on my steam account, it's hilarious, hopefully Chris and Jon don't screw it up. I always wanted to be able to reprogram the Institute synths to clean up, repave, and rebuild Boston, use the "serum" in a syringer gun to transform the mutants back to normal, then fix up an old vehicle and drive around, but alas, no such luck. It'd make for a better end game sandbox than vault interior design. Here's the Fallout Parody.
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Re: Fallout [Action, Sci-Fi]
thanks for the info added to watch list
- lighton
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Re: Fallout [Action, Sci-Fi]
Woooooooooow, Fallout - Teaser Trailer | Prime Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kQ8i2FpRDk is out and it looks even better than I had hoped for. A lot better! Also out is Fallout - A Special LIVE Report from Galaxy News | Prime Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1YhcviJ7IU which is something like a pre-teaser teaser. It's weird (very unusual) and funny, but I didn't yet have the time for all of its 1:00:00 (!) playtime. Galaxy News is here live with an exclusive look at the next generation of apocalypse-proof, purpose-built luxury housing, sponsored by our friends at Vault-Tec.
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Re: Fallout [Action, Sci-Fi]
I have my doubts....has anything that heavily features "social commentary" been remotely good in the past 10 years? https://thatparkplace.com/prime-videos- … -and-evil/ I really hope I'm wrong
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Re: Fallout [Action, Sci-Fi]
Very limited optimism, looked like a comedy to me and I don't think they have managed to make a good scifi comedy yet, adding modern "social commentary" will not improve that category of shows, it rarely works with comedians to begin with so why would it work within a scifi frame?
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Re: Fallout [Action, Sci-Fi]
Well, the world of Fallout was always a "social commentary"... they describe a dystopian world after society as we know it collapsed and got rebooted. Starts with economy (bottlecaps), over to racism (men vs ghouls), protectionism (vaults and the large city complexes) vs the open wasteland, Brotherhood of Steel vs. Enclave etc... The question is: Will they just "put in chicks and make them gay"?, i.E. enforce the typical non-sense of these days or will they take a serious look at the social construct and tell a great tale? The latter has a lot of potential...
8 Reply by graybags 2023-12-07 21:02:08 (edited by graybags 2023-12-07 21:02:21)
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Re: Fallout [Action, Sci-Fi]
Kanga wrote:Very limited optimism, looked like a comedy to me and I don't think they have managed to make a good scifi comedy yet...
Red Dwarf?
2020. Meh.
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Re: Fallout [Action, Sci-Fi]
graybags wrote:Kanga wrote:Very limited optimism, looked like a comedy to me and I don't think they have managed to make a good scifi comedy yet...
Red Dwarf?
Doesn't count. That's British.
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