Fallout - The Movie

[acer840]

I would like to see a Fallout movie. But not one that follows the actual games storyline. More of the background leading up to the bombs and then leads to the games start? And keep Uwe Boll AWAY from the script, he could butcher The Godfather 3.

 

[Avatar Roku]

No. Sure, it has potential, but everything has potential. The movie industry is so full of idiotic bigots though, that any attempt to make it into a movie now would probably be based on the third game, and an even bigger insult to the series than that one. It would probably be cutened up as well, to allow for more income from children watching it.

Oh, so you're one of those people who thinks that FO3 ruined the franchise?

Anyway, it'd probably suck, but if they get Ron Pearlman for the introduction, at least it wouldn't be too bad

 

[Ranooth]

Mad Max
A boy and his dog
Red Dawn
The Omega Man
Endgame

The whole wasteland, invading country survival movie scene has been done. But i think one based on the Brotherhood of Steal fighting The Enclave would be pretty badass, it could also have a scene where Uwe Boll takes a Mini-Nuke to the face.

 

[Quantana]

i think is fallout to free to be a movie so you'l need a hell of a script

 

[The_Prophet]

It'd be a good movie if they made it about the first one. The third one's ending was just shit.

Well, maybe some well-to-do japanese anime something-or-another (I don't know what their fancy titles are) will pick it up and CG the bejeezus out of it.

Not all videogame movies need to be Live action...

damned right, mate.

If they made an anime Fallout movie I will go on a killing spree in protest.

Me too!

 

[nova18]

It should be based on Van Buren in that case. That's the only way I see it happening well. Anyone who knows what Van Buren is would most likely be competent enough to make it well (if they had a budget, which I doubt they would), and they'd be totally flipping off Fallout 3 at the same time and that annoying overgrown child they have working on it.

The Van Buren storyline would definetely have made a better game and film. Even the start to the game would have been more exciting, busting out of prison, not knowing what the hell to do next.
I would have preffered that game to the game they ended up releasing.

 

[dnadns]

I don't think that Fallout can be transferred into a movie.
The main reason would most likely be the setting and timeline which needs a lot of explanation. There is quite a lot of background information which had to be included to make sense for people who did not play the games.

On the other hand, I could imagine it as a TV series where it would also be possible to follow different quests and characters while explaining more and more about the setting.

It may be a bad example, but something like the old "Kung Fu" series with David Carradine transferred into the Fallout setting might work (for those who are old enough to remember).

 

[Silver]

It should be based on Van Buren in that case. That's the only way I see it happening well. Anyone who knows what Van Buren is would most likely be competent enough to make it well (if they had a budget, which I doubt they would), and they'd be totally flipping off Fallout 3 at the same time and that annoying overgrown child they have working on it.

The Van Buren storyline would definetely have made a better game and film. Even the start to the game would have been more exciting, busting out of prison, not knowing what the hell to do next.
I would have preffered that game to the game they ended up releasing.

Well, of course you would have. Anyone with any sense of taste and more experience in gaming than Oblivion, Halo and Fallout 3 would also have preferred Van Buren. It's a natural reaction to chose the better of two options.

 

[Sgt. Dante]

I dunno, the problem with big games like fallout is that they're BIG, that may sound daft but think about it.

Most of the fun coming from the games is the sense that YOU are crafting the story, the way that your actions have consequences. A movie would be like watching someone else play the game, in a fraction of the normal time, almost defiantly playing a good character, and skipping all the side quests, and a lot of the main quests... (et cetera)

 

[doomfish]

I think Fallout would make a much better novel series than it would a movie. Instead of focusing just one character you could follow the story of a brotherhood outcast in one book or read about a raider in another. You can watch the destruction caused by an evil drifter or follow the exploits of a person trying to make the wasteland a better place.

 

[GonzoGamer]

You know, it might actually work as a graphic novel. Think about it: it could take advantage of the awesome setting and art of Fallout, it wouldn't have the need to appeal to everyone, and...well, those are the only two reasons I can think of but they're damn fine reasons.

Okay that might work, but a movie?

Yea, that'll make the ending more tolerable.

Who could they find that's wooden enough to be cast as Fallout 3 characters:
The kid who played Anakin/Vader.
the skinny Al Gore; there's a ton of politicians that are just very wooden actors.
Gov. Ahrnold
Keanu
Rain Wilson (though it may just be that character from Office)
Robin Williams (as long as it's a serious role)

Then they just have to get a makeup artist that can make them all look like mannequins.

 

[PsyberGoth]

If they managed to capture the setting perfectly, they could centre the story around the ongoing power struggle between the NCR and Vault City, or the BoS and the Enclave. The black humour and retro-futurism are also a must.

 

[fish234]

I'm curnty scripting a short version of a movie, to avoid gettung beaten to a bloody pulp by game fans I just changed the setting and the storry line. I cept some of the things the same (ghols, slavers ect.) but added my own little spin on things like getting rid of the brotherhood and the Enclave due to the fact I changed the setting to scottland, there are now the Institute (DR Zimmer from the Harkness quest metions it) and the heighlanders (nothing to do with Fallout). all we need now is to finish the script, get hold of a camera (kind of important) and start shooting so you people can complain about how mutch you hate it

 

[jthm]

No thanks, I already saw Mad Max.

 

[CNKFan]

There needs to be a musical dance number with the BoS and Raiders that would be awesome

 

[Sparrow]

(Probally already been said, but bugger me if I can be bothered to check...)

Bethy already bought the rights to make a Fallout movie/TV Series, but they've not announced anything yet. Rumour was Interplay was making one, but dropped it around the same time Van Buren went tits up.

 

[Agayek]

Those aside, "Tome Raider" wasn't 'that' bad and kept good with the concept well enough but who remembers "Super Mario Bros."? Probably no one - it wasn't a memorable movie even though it ran for 140mins... *smirks*

Super Mario Bros. is quite possibly the worst thing to ever come out of Hollywood. That shit scarred me for life.

 

[xenxander]

Those aside, "Tome Raider" wasn't 'that' bad and kept good with the concept well enough but who remembers "Super Mario Bros."? Probably no one - it wasn't a memorable movie even though it ran for 140mins... *smirks*

Super Mario Bros. is quite possibly the worst thing to ever come out of Hollywood. That shit scarred me for life.

I'd say the movie was attempting to mix a part of "Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome" with a little bit of "Thriller" (minus the music), but if you attempt to make some colorful "Mushroom Kingdom" I think it will only appeal to children and I can see the target audience was young boys (12 - 16) for the year it came out.

While they did an "ok" job of creating a 'fungus' world (even adding an element of SMB 3, with the Koopahari Desert), I wasn't upset with the theme they chose.

I'll mention it again, it was some of the lines dished out that made the movie "bad", not the theme of the movie itself.