The Fallout series promises to be one of the main attractions on Amazon Prime Video this year. The adaptation of the successful game owned by Bethesda seeks to match the company's greatest successes and has a clear objective: to be at the level of video games.
However, although they aspire to emulate the characteristic atmosphere of the saga, Bethesda asked Amazon for a key condition for the creation of the series: Todd Howard He supervised the plot and asked the producers that the ending be completely original to avoid contradictions with the video games.
“We felt like that would be the best to honor the player's experiences and the most truthful. If we were to adapt a specific game, it wouldn't actually have been truthful because it's an open-world game and everyone's experience is different. We would have done that too. done by taking other endings from any of the games, but the players would say, 'That's not the order I played it in.'”.
Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Lisa Joy revealed to SFX Magazine that, although the series takes place in the same universe as the video games, they wanted to preserve the individual experience of each player in creating their own story, something that would not be possible in this production. for obvious reasons.
Adapt something like fallout It turns out to be more complicated than it seems. The Last of Us or Halo are relatively “simpler” adaptations to make (as difficult as it is to adapt), since they have linear plots and do not have the aspect of creating your own story as you advance in the world.
Fortunately, it seems that Amazon has found the formula to carry out the series, since they came up with concepts that even Todd Howard requested to eliminate from production because they were planned for the next installment of the franchise. fallout will be available in its entirety on Amazon Prime Video starting April 12.
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