It’s been a long while since we heard anything regarding the TV adaptation of Bethesda’s Fallout series. Of course, you know where this is going. According to Deadline, the series is finally moving forward at Amazon with Jonathan Nolan (Westworld) at the helm.
The series will be co-developed by Amazon Studios and Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s Kilter Films, in association with Bethesda Game Studios and Bethesda Softworks. Nolan, Joy and Athena Wickham will be producers on the series, along with Todd Howard and James Altman from Bethesda.
Geneva Robertson-Dworet (2018’s Tomb Raider) and Graham Wagner (Silicon Valley) have also come on board as showrunners. Nolan will direct the premiere of the series, which is slated to begin production in 2022.
Back in 2020, Joy and Nolan remarked that the Fallout series was “one of the greatest” of all time, and that they had sunk “countless hours” into the characters and story.
For those not in the know, the Fallout series was initially created way back in 1997 by Interplay Productions and Black Isle Studios, and centres on an alternate mid-22nd century United States after a global nuclear war. Survivors of the war inhabit underground bomb shelters known as Vaults. The series is known for its retro-futuristic stylings, along with its dark humour and over-the-top violence.