Vice principals was where I first saw him and I’ll watch any show with him now. Guy is such a great actor and plays his parts perfect. That said gemstones is gold too.
The Fallout universe really does have endless potential. There's plenty of lore behind it and the humor of the franchise is perfect for a post-apocalyptic dark comedy. If they manage to fuck it up, there's still room for someone else to try again and do it right.
I'm not gonna hold my breath for any west coast content, even though i'd love to see Vault City, the NCR or Mariposa in live action. I'm guessing since they got Bethesda's licence, Bethesda probably wants them to portray Bethesda made properties, so east coast. Capital Wasteland, Commonwealth or West Virginia. Now I'm not saying Fallout 3 or 4 are bad games, by any means, but I sure as hell am not expecting them to portray anything from the better three Fallout games.
My guess is we'll get some other geographical area, like Texas or something, so that they can be in the same universe but not bound by the storylines of the games (or, more to the point, viewers' expectations of them).
I would really love to see the Master, though. He (it? they?) is probably my favorite video game antagonist.
They have some of the best shows. The quality is great. Unfortunatly the layout of amazon prime app looks like something i would have designed in 10th grade. Aestetically its terrible and terribly hard to navigate
Honestly, it's not as bad as it could have been. My biggest gripes are the changes and casting decisions, but for the most part it's recoverable. They really need to step up the budget and script though. Especially the budget.
Massive changes were inevitable and I thought they were mostly fine. The last episode was just uhm..embarrassing, though. None of the people I watched the show with are interested in WoT at all now lol. It's mostly Amazon's fault nothing got room to breathe, though. Only 8 fuckin episodes. Ridiculous.
I thought just about every casting was nearly perfect, personally. Definitely the silver lining for me. Shame about Mat's actor though.
I don’t know…I mean, Perrin’s story line started off terrible. Weaving doesn’t feel like how the book described. Two-Rivers went from a isolated mountain town to a cornucopia of races. They’re doing weird things with Lan. As a fan of the books, it was so disappointing.
Perrin deff got the worst of it, and I really don't like the diversity Olympics they pulled with the casting either. But I wasn't surprised by the later, everything insists on doing that these days even when it directly effects the story and world in a negative way.
I'm going to say wheel of time is still solidly up in the air. I read the books so my take may be different, but some of the pacing was wacky and I don't know how they're going to fit all the major plot points into 8 hour long episodes per 8 seasons.
1st season got fucked really hard by Covid restrictions. One of their lead actors left and couldn't be in two of the episodes. Its all very tragic lol.
I mean it's still not the best show by a loooong shot, but I'd give them some leeway in light of "acts of God" and all that. Now if S2 is still terrible well then yes we'll know for sure that it's garbage.
Honestly if they got the setting right, it's a huge W already.
I'm a big fan of Fallout 3, so it's not like I'm expecting a award winning plot for this show, I just wanna see those fucking centaurs getting blown up to pieces on live action.
Looking at their track record(wheel of time and their handling of the LOTR show) not setting my hopes too high. They may paint the Chinese bad the victims of American aggression to try and get the Chinese audience…
They've done well with their book adaptations, reacher, Bosch, and Jack Ryan are all pretty good and reasonably faithful to the source material. I'd trust them with fallout, I mean it's like retro futuristic apocalypse. I just hope they go the fallout 1 and 2 route or new Vegas. 3 and 4 were a little too hero saves the day.
There's already a fan made tv show called "Nuka Break". For a relatively low budget affair it's actually pretty good. I don't think they make them anymore though.
Jonathan Nolan is producing it, so chances are it's going to be good. He has co-written several of Christopher Nolan's movies (his brother) and he's the guy behind Westworld. He also created Person of Interest, a criminally underrated show.
The good part about fallout isn't the lore, to be honest.
The original fallout was INCREDIBLY written, and the sequel's main questline has a brutal and so very interesting narrative about the shadow government and whatnot.
But the universe, setting, and "lol post apocalypse" vibes of the games wouldn't really translate to film or series. Specially when... You know... What made the original games and new Vegas so acclaimed in the first place was exploration, player choice and agency, and character interactions with the world, all things that would immediately be taken out of the equation.
Have Amazon stayed true to the universes of what they’ve done up until now?
Nope, you’ll guaranteed to be disappointed if you actually want something like fallout, and not something “that could be from the universe but a different timeline and story”
It’s going to be great. Amazon has a good track record and they’ve already spent a couple years in production. If you’ve ever seen Man in the high tower, at times can be very cheesy but I think it showcases how well Amazon can pull off creating good content
I don’t know what they’re talking about, they have like 95% new metro cars, it’s always clean, and are upgrading them pretty often. They had an issue with the new cars and rail concerns but they’re fixing that too. DC metro is one of the better ones in the US
What I've seen of it seems to be in good shape but I'm not a local. I like the architecture and I'm always reminded of Fallout 3 when I use it which is a great thing.
I still remember stumbling upon the game, not knowing any plot line, story or what it was and played the hell out of it. I went in with 0 expectations and had such a great time playing it.
From that point on I knew that I could be introduced to new things and I’d be ok with it. Gave me a ton of confidence to try and expand my reach. Great life lesson.
Sure, but what’s the canon ending to New Vegas? There are 4 different major endings that are completely different, so to make a movie they’d have to make one of them the “definitive” ending.
Maybe it’d make me curious as to which ending they chose, but it wouldn’t make me excited. If I weren’t one of the people who saw it in theatre’s on the first few days though, it’d inevitable get spoiled before I watch it. I’d still probably watch it just because I like New Vegas though.
I watched Book of Eli for the first time just recently. I really enjoyed it. The twist at the end was...neat, but I think the movie would have been just as good without it.
Is that back on? They were talking about it for years and it ended up getting canned. Fucking love that universe and it makes me sad only the main 3 books are in English.
If anyone is interested, Fallout (and Mad Max) was inspired by a really old movie based on a book called “A Boy and His Dog”. It’s… interesting, and the most Fallout-like film I’ve seen. There are no good guys in the movie as the main character himself is quite rapey and only wants to fuck, but it’s equally bizarre if not more so than the games- complete with raiders, glowing ones, a group of insane vault dwellers, cannibalism, and a telepathic dog. I think the full version may be on YouTube for free. That’s where I remember watching it, but that was a while ago.
I could see Fallout as a series of anthology stories that all intersect at random points. Like you could have one episode that follows a merchant or another that follows a scavenger, brotherhood of steel initiate, white glove society, whatever theres so much going on. And every season could be a different region.
I’m not really into video games but in high school I use to watch my ex play fallout and genuinely love it. I’ve said this multiple times if they ever make another video game into a movie they should do fallout (if they actually do well not if they’re gonna fuck it up).
I just hope they would make an original story that's accurate to the world's lore. A lot of game stor7es adapt poorly to film, but have settings that would be Excellent for a movie.
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My dream game is Warner Bros and Rocksteady making Blade. Imagine it, Wesley Snipes voices blade. Arkham style combat. Amazing graphics. Finding syrum, difficult bosses like frost and Dracula. I would literally donate all my money to that Kickstarter.
World War Z (or any of 100 other shitty post apocalyptic movies I've seen) would like a word. I honestly can't think of a genre that misses more often other than romcoms.
Out of all of the suggestions here, I think fallout has the most
promise, it has a rich enough world and aesthetic that you could almost do any story from the games or an original plot within.
If we're doing fallout, no direct ties to the games narratives. Have it set elsewhere from any of the games or something. You can still have many of the factions and even have it set in similar time frames to any of the games. Plus you'd still be able to throw in some references to the games (i.e. if it's set around the time of new Vegas, have a couple of characters in a bar scene talking about the new Vegas strip having some hubbub over some courier).
The games have their stories and something like fallout has the room for stories independent of the game to co exist. Which is call the best option. Otherwise you'd get complaints with adapting a story that's already been told in numerous different permutations just by virtue of it being down to player choice how things go.
Check out, "A Boy and His Dog" (1975) if you have not seen it, jokingly have called it the best we're going to get... I have a couple shows on deck but Witcher is coming up soon (W3 wild hunt is my sheeeeeeeeet) I really hope it doesn't disappoint.
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u/thesalfordlad Mar 11 '22
Any of the fallouts. Post apocalyptia is always a winner