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[Draugoth]

‘Fallout’ First Look: This Is How the World Ends—With a Smiling Thumbs-Up

The globally popular video game has become an epic TV series from ‘Westworld’ creator Jonathan Nolan.

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The globally popular video game has become an epic TV series from Westworld creator Jonathan Nolan.

Fallout often looks like the distant past, but it’s really the far-off future—and, actually, it’s the end of life as we know it.

In the new series, debuting on Amazon’s Prime Video on April 12, a nuclear war breaks out across Earth in the year 2077—which is (or was) an era of robots, hover cars, and a deep and abiding nostalgia for the America of the 1940s. Everything from the clothes, to the entertainment, to the vehicles mimic the look of that bygone age, albeit with a sci-fi tilt. That retro-futurist aesthetic was one of the charms of the mega-selling video game series that inspired the show.

 

[kyussman]

It looks the part.......but how will it be written,that's the question,lol.

 

[JohnnyFootball]

I have liked everything I have seen so far. It seems to nail the look visually. Will it actually respect the source material? Time will tell.

 

[schuey7]

Looks good. Hoping it turns out good.

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

Looks fine.

 

[adamsapple]

 

[e0n]

That's a huge hand.

 

[kanjobazooie]

They managed to make the jumpsuit look not silly.

 

[Elbereth]

As long as they don’t take too many liberties with the source material, it would be hard to mess this up.

The shots look great though.

 

[DaciaJC]

That's a huge hand.

Look up the meaning of perspective.

 

[Revolutionary]

Based on these photos, I'm guessing the first episode will be about the idyllic life in the Vault prior to the Vault's protocols going into action and forcing her out into the wasteland in a end-of-episode cliffhanger. Could be fun.

I'll check out the first two episodes at least. Can't be worse than Amazon's LOTR... right?

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

pleasantly surprised by what I’ve seen and read so far

 

[DenchDeckard]

Don't fuck this up.

 

[R6Rider]

 

[Salmon]

Don't fuck this up.

Well, it's Amazon so it will be woke as hell.

 

[Stafford]

It looks the part.......but how will it be written,that's the question,lol.

This. And will Amazon be pushing some woke bullshit? I fucking hope not. Nolan I trust. Do we know who the writer is?

 

[WitchHunter]

‘Fallout’ First Look: This Is How the World Ends—With a Smiling Thumbs-Up

The globally popular video game has become an epic TV series from ‘Westworld’ creator Jonathan Nolan.

www.vanityfair.com

Oh look, models in the vault. When will they fucking understand, that Fallout is an ugly world, full of ugly and/or ordinary people? Do not put these sculpted by plastic surgeon looking people in a fucking post apocaliptic series. And do not put that 300 dollar makeup on everyone...

 

[Hohenheim]

This looks and sounds very promising indeed!

 

[Dr_Ifto]

Good enough to make me watch at least the first episode.

 

[R6Rider]

This. And will Amazon be pushing some woke bullshit? I fucking hope not. Nolan I trust. Do we know who the writer is?

Lisa Joy and Jonathon Nolan (married).

Lisa has worked on Westworld, Burn Notice, and Pushing Daisies. With Jonathon working on Westworld and Person of Interest for tv and Memento, The Prestige, Interstellar, The Dark Knight, and Dark Knight Rises for films.

 

[Chuck Berry]

Wow had NO idea Jonathan Nolan and his wife were behind this. That actually gives me a smidgeon of ho-

He and Joy acquired the rights through their Kilter Films production company, then set about inventing new characters and trials and tribulations with executive producers and writers Geneva Robertson-Dworet (cowriter of 2019’s Captain Marvel) and Graham Wagner (a veteran of The Office, Portlandia, and Silicon Valley), who serve as Fallout’s showrunners.

Nevermind.

 

[RagnarokIV]

Well, it's Amazon so it will be woke as hell.

I thought they had a mass exodus of the woke staff a while back?

 

[SmokedMeat]

Looks really good. Hope it turns out well!

 

[The Infectious Paradox]

I like it

 

[Stafford]

Lisa Joy and Jonathon Nolan (married).

Lisa has worked on Westworld, Burn Notice, and Pushing Daisies. With Jonathon working on Westworld and Person of Interest for tv and Memento, The Prestige, Interstellar, The Dark Knight, and Dark Knight Rises for films.

Let's hope Amazon doesn't get into their shit at all, let them stay away.

 

[clarky]

Well this they certainly nailed the look. Hopefully its better than the latter seasons of Westworld.

 

[danklord]

As someone who loved Westworld but hated the Peripheral, I'm cautiously optimistic. This is daring creative team and willing to go there, so I'm more excited for this than any other game adaptation.

 

[MiguelItUp]

Well, it definitely looks the part. Would be awesome if it lands really well.

 

[digdug2]

As someone who loved Westworld but hated the Peripheral, I'm cautiously optimistic. This is daring creative team and willing to go there, so I'm more excited for this than any other game adaptation.

You're in luck because Peripheral was canceled.

 

[StereoVsn]

Based on these photos, I'm guessing the first episode will be about the idyllic life in the Vault prior to the Vault's protocols going into action and forcing her out into the wasteland in a end-of-episode cliffhanger. Could be fun.

I'll check out the first two episodes at least. Can't be worse than Amazon's LOTR... right?

LOTR and Wheel of Time were pretty bad. I don’t expect any better here. At least visually it’s pretty good from the released info so far.

 

[BouncyFrag]

It has Walton Goggins. There is hope.

 

[Diddy X]

Could be fun.

 

[LavitzSlambert]

I still have no trust for any of these video game adaptations. I have yet to see one done well. Even Last of Us was diluted and while it was decent TV, the production really messed up the pacing and character development from the game.

I do think Fallout style games without a true main character might be easier to work with and tell their own story, but so far everything Amazon gets their hands on has been bad. They even fucked up the end to The Expanse.

 

[digdug2]

so far everything Amazon gets their hands on has been bad.

That's not true. Invincible, The Boys, Jack Reacher, Good Omens, Jack Ryan, and Upload are all excellent Amazon exclusives. Many of those listed are adaptations too.

 

[StueyDuck]

Visually it's looking on point... but how 2020s the writing will be is the real question.

Honestly at this point I'd be fine with master cheeks (I didn't hate that show as much as others did, I found it pretty normal sci-fi, but yes a terrible halo adaptation, but as a sci-fi show it wasn't bad)

 

[StueyDuck]

That's not true. Invincible, The Boys, Jack Reacher, Good Omens, Jack Ryan, and Upload are all excellent Amazon exclusives. Many of those listed are adaptations too.

take out invincible and the boys and add the continental and the terminal list and you've got yourself quite the list there.

For me Amazon are a close 3rd maybe forth on the streaming producers (which is good to me)

 

[Spyxos]

Looks like fun.

 

[Chuck Berry]

It has Walton Goggins. There is hope.

I still dont get what's so special about this fucking dude. Is it because he has a wacky name? I always call him Walter's Goggles.

 

[AJUMP23]

Looks like good costumes.

 

[BouncyFrag]

I still dont get what's so special about this fucking dude. Is it because he has a wacky name? I always call him Walter's Goggles.

He’s great in The Shield and Justified.

 

[j0hnnix]

It has Walton Goggins. There is hope.

This is best news, but its also Amazon.

 

[Chuck Berry]

He’s great in The Shield and Justified.

Justified is where I first started hearing all the praise. Never seen it and Deadwood is one of my fav shows of all time.

 

[Johnny Concrete]

Are the VFX done in the Creation Engine?

Seriously looks a bit cheap. Maybe a lot of Virtual Production in Unreal Engine?

 

[Alebrije]

Need to see the mutants, beasts, lore..will have Nukecole?

Also hope they copy this on the show just for fun :

 

[Punished Miku]

Could be good?

 

[Kagoshima_Luke]

Unfortunately, I'm too jaded at this point with any new shows or movies for even a smidgen of excitement. Everything is firmly in the "wait and see" category, no matter how promising production shots look.

 

[Mister Wolf]

Hopefully they have good CGI for the monsters.

 

[bitbydeath]

I thought they had a mass exodus of the woke staff a while back?

That was Netflix.

 

[ThatStupidLion]

Rings of power and wheel of time tell me nope

 

[yet_another_alt]

Oh look, models in the vault. When will they fucking understand, that Fallout is an ugly world, full of ugly and/or ordinary people? Do not put these sculpted by plastic surgeon looking people in a fucking post apocaliptic series. And do not put that 300 dollar makeup on everyone...

*checks mod list*
nah