In an interview this week with podcaster and AI researcher Lex Fridmen (opens in new tab), Todd Howard answered a query that is been on the minds of each Fallout fan. Will the story of Amazon’s upcoming Fallout TV collection be an unique one, or is it an adaptation of one of many many Fallout video games we have performed through the years?
“It is not retelling a sport story,” Howard mentioned. “It is mainly an space of the map, let’s inform a narrative right here that matches on the planet that we’ve constructed. It would not break any of the principles, it might probably reference issues within the video games, however is not a retelling of the video games. It exists in the identical world however is its personal distinctive factor.”
It is nice to have that lastly confirmed, nevertheless it’s not a complete shock. We lately realized that the Fallout TV collection will contain Vault 33, which hasn’t been utilized in any of the Fallout video games but. That makes a little bit extra sense realizing that the story is a completely unique one.
Howard additionally says within the interview that after the success of Fallout 3, he met with a variety of movie producers and executives who needed to create a Fallout film. However he wasn’t satisfied by the thought of condensing the world of Fallout right into a two-hour movie, and wasn’t enamored with the idea of merely retelling the story of Fallout 3. As tv studios started to supply exhibits with larger budgets, Howard started assembly with producers once more, together with Jonathan Nolan who grew to become the Fallout TV present’s govt producer and director.
Not that Todd Howard is an neutral observer, however he says he is “surprised” by what he is seen of the present thus far, praising the staff’s work. “Their consideration to element, and [they are] obsessive, simply obsessive with what’s on the display screen, and the storytelling, and the way it appears to be like, the entire thing.”
You’ll be able to watch the full interview right here (opens in new tab) on YouTube, which ranges to different subjects like the rationale you will not need to refuel your spaceship in Starfield (Howard calls operating out of fuel a “enjoyable killer”) and the way Bethesda’s upcoming Indiana Jones sport is a “love letter” to the famed archeologist adventurer.