Now that Bethesda’s famous Fallout game series is being adapted into a TV series, it marks a new era for the iconic game franchise. The Fallout universe is all set to expand with Prime Video’s Fallout TV series just around the corner.
When talking about Fallout, it would be criminal to miss out on some names who have made the franchise what it is. One of them is Todd Howard, an American video game designer, director, and producer, who is the director and executive producer at Bethesda Game Studios. Howard has played an instrumental role in developing Fallout ever since its inception.
Todd Howard’s reaction to Fallout TV series
As part of the promotions of the upcoming TV series, the executive producer and director of the show, Jonathan Nolan, executive producer, and co-showrunner Graham Wagner, as well as the series stars Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten, and Walton Goggins, were recently interviewed by IGN.
During the interview, Nolan was asked about how Howard is allowing them to peacefully work on the TV adaptation of the game, which happens to be “his little baby.” To this, Nolan said,
“And so what was exciting about the very first conversation that I had with Todd was that he had spent years kind of rebuffing offers to adapt these games waiting to try to find someone who sort of got it.”
He further adds,
“When we sat down, it was sort of this love connection of I’ve always wanted to be you and vice versa. My favorite collaborators to adapt from are dead people because they don’t argue. Todd is very much alive, but he had that great confidence of someone who has created a world and allowed, in some cases like New Vegas, other people to sort of create within that world.”
Nolan shared that Howard possessed both the confidence and the experience of understanding that if one builds a good enough world, people can further create within it and connect to the stories that one has previously told. And hence, Nolan says they knew from the beginning that they wanted to tell an original tale within the Fallout universe.
He adds,
“And because of the way the games work, where each game is a different city and a different set of characters with a different set of deeper questions it wants to ask and different ways of playing with time and all the delicious speculative fiction, the bits, and pieces that go into each of these stories that, if we did it right, we’d fit right in.”
Furthermore, Nolan believes that where they have landed with the series and that it feels like just another entry in this series, but the best one.
About Fallout TV Series
The TV series based on the Fallout game franchise was first announced back in July 2020. Amazon Studios announced that a television adaptation of the Fallout video game was in the works and was being developed by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy.
Interestingly, the Bethesda Game Studios producer, Howard, who has the credit of directing various games in the series under his belt, has also executive produced the TV series alongside Joy and Nolan.
The show will cast Ella Purnell as Lucy, the primary protagonist, along with Aaron Moten as Maximus and Walton Goggins as The Ghoul or Cooper Howard. Apart from these three maid roles, the series will have a start cast in the side roles.
Prime Video’s Fallout TV show is scheduled to premiere on the streaming service on April 11, 2024. It will have a total of eight episodes, all of which will be released on the same day.
