FALLOUT: THE MOVIE your thoughts on if it could be adapted well from the game
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I'd really like a prequel movie in the vein of The Sum of All Fears that shows the Great War; no way in hell would I allow directors a chance to screw up any game for me with shitty "adaptions/interpretations."
I'm going to go against the grain and say that a Fallout adaptation would work, but not in a film. Rather, I say a tv miniseries would be better suited for it. Granted, the show would have a tough time trying to stand out, but if someone could get good writers to hammer a good story that feels like Fallout, then that would be start. You just need folks that get the game and its mythos. Look at Hitman. Skip Woods, the writer, didn't seem all that familiar with the game, hence the story took so many deviations from what was already a solid background story. Xavier Gens, the director, claimed to be more familiar with the games, and it showed. At least, that's how I felt about that film. However, my original point still stands. Get people that at least understand Fallout (and make it into a miniseries event, which would probably only happen somewhere like HBO or Showtime), and you may have a chance.
Hmmmm. Maybe. But Harold would have to be in it.
But it might work. It wouldn't be an easy thing, since Fallout is so much more about the setting than the plot. At least that's how I play it.
But it might work. It wouldn't be an easy thing, since Fallout is so much more about the setting than the plot. At least that's how I play it.
The appeal of a Fallout game is the ability to interact with your environment. Actually, that's the appeal of most games. A movie doesn't provide the ability to leave the main storyline and go deathclaw hunting. It won't provide the hours of endless fun of trying hare-brained schemes to discover Vault 87. And it doesn't let the viewer project themselves onto the main character. A videogame movie, and especially an RPG movie, and DOUBLE especially a Fallout movie, wold fall flat on its face.
It would completely detract from the game world.
It just doesn't work. The game and a movie about it doesn't do the same thing.
It just doesn't work. The game and a movie about it doesn't do the same thing.
oh my god NO! Blasphemy! Fallout is just too huge to be explained in just a movie!
the only way it might work, would be to make it like V: The Miniseries.
the only way it might work, would be to make it like V: The Miniseries.
Maybe if you followed only the core plot of Fallout 3, otherwise it would be too convoluted.
plus you could get Liam Neeson to star.
But with the game to movie success rate, It'd be very hard to pull off.
I'll wait until the new PoP movies comes out before I give my final verdict, there's still a little part of me that believes it'll be good.
plus you could get Liam Neeson to star.
But with the game to movie success rate, It'd be very hard to pull off.
I'll wait until the new PoP movies comes out before I give my final verdict, there's still a little part of me that believes it'll be good.