Fallout - The Movie

[John Galt]

Ooh, Peter Jackson, now that would be something worth watching

Anyways, a Fallout RTS seems like it would work pretty well. The only main hurdle is avoiding the "We've got three armies and they all do the same thing" disease. The biggest point would be to differentiate between Enclave and BoS but then again, that can be done pretty easily. You'd have the New Reno Families, Tribals, Raiders, NCR, and maybe the inhabitants of Vault 13 (Deathclaws and such). That seems to be all the factions that would be capable of fighting on the scale most RTS campaigns have, unless Vault City went ape and started annexing things.

 

[Silver]

I wonder what would happen if Peter Jackson or the guy who directed 300 would do with the Fallout movie?




Also I was wondering if a Fallout RST would be any good, I maen if you think about it there are so many elements in this game series that could make it a good RTS.

The numbers are wrong for an RTS. For an RTS you need armies. In Fallout you don't have that. The brotherhood of steel is as close to an army as you'll get, and there's maybe a hundred of them, and not in the same place.

Anyway, if the guy who did 300 did fallout I'd cry myself to sleep and then go kill myself. That would be the worst person that could have made it. Peter Jackson, maybe. Maybe. I don't think he's the best choice either. He did Lord of the Rings well, but the feeling of Fallout is completely different. It's not epic and huge armies fighting for the world. It's gritty, and it's one person against the world, almost literally.

 

[KapnKerfuffle]

The campy fun that is had in the video game would not translate well to a video game.

Does it ever?

I mean giant scorpians, power armor, mutants = great video game stuff.
Not for movies.

 

[Johnn Johnston]

The campy fun that is had in the video game would not translate well to a video game.

Does it ever?

I mean giant scorpians, power armor, mutants = great video game stuff.
Not for movies.

Exactamundo.

 

[T.H.O.R]

Well, maybe some well-to-do japanese anime something-or-another (I don't know what their fancy titles are) will pick it up and CG the bejeezus out of it.

Not all videogame movies need to be Live action...

 

[monodiabloloco]

Well, a movie based on how I played the game wouldn't work well. Hero walks in, takes a job to help the town with some mutant scorpions, collecs, then kills everyone.

 

[tendo82]

They already made one - it's called Mad Max.

 

[T.H.O.R]

Well, a movie based on how I played the game wouldn't work well. Hero walks in, takes a job to help the town with some mutant scorpions, collecs, then kills everyone.

I laughed a little.

Reminds me of one of my most recent playthroughs; I maxed out pickpocketing, Stealth, and Energy Guns and just walked around stealing EVERYTHING from EVERYONE. I was rich before I even got to the Hub. And with max luck, and the Fortune finder perk..I was elated when I ran across the overturned Nuka-Cola truck.

It was an interesting playthrough, I must admit..but the content I saw would just make for a terribad (yep, Terribad) movie.


If they did make a movie for fallout...I would assume it would follow the path of "Hero Jimbobcrumpetmuncher exits the vault, doesn't go back in and steal the water...makes his way to Vault-15 and realizes "Crap I need a rope"...goes to town, does some odd-jobs..etc etc.

Basically, the linearity (As mentioned above) would take away some of the 'freedom' essence that Fallout gave us as players...however, it would follow the compelling Storyline of the game. A small sacrifice, in my opinion.

It's too bad this is all speculation, and I'm not rich otherwise I'd hire some animators and pour a massive amount of money into the project. Oh well.

 

[Khaleel]

This movie idea would actually be running in circles... I mean, about 70-80% of Fallout game is already based on a movie ("A Boy and His Dog" - 1975) - post-nuclear surrounding, Dogmeat, mutants (although, in the movie, they refer to them as "The Screamers", and are described as huge, green creatures), raiders, vault, wasteland etc. etc... The only thing missing is "the Master-quest"...
I advise you to check it out if you consider yourself a Fallout fan The main character Vic (played by young Don Johnson) and his dog Blood (he sometimes calls him Dogmeat) are able to communicate telephatically ) Vic is in charge of finding food for both of them, while Blood sniffs around looking for females so Vic can rape them ... the end of the movie is absoultely priceless!
Anywho... if someone, some day, decides to make the movie based on this game, it SHOULD NOT be created in some Hollywood-blockbuster-crap-factory where the main character would be played by Orlando-Bloomish-type or some other pretty boy, and where the entire movie would be adapted for mass-audience, because that would kill it (when I say mass-audience, I mean 6 year olds). Fallout has enough fans for the movie to be as close as possible to the original plot. I mean, in these past ten years, Hollywood has exhausted almost every decent comic book hero; every game that became popular... why?... because those people have no fresh ideas, so they tamper with the classics.
This movie SHOULD BE brute! It SHOULD BE amusing! Bloody! Grotesque! Dynamic & passive at the same time. In other words... it can't be done... extract some of the "small missions, dialogues, eccentric npcs", and you extract its essence.
Here's how I would film this movie... it would last for about 13 minutes... the vault dweller exits the vault 13, enters the Shady Sands and gets killed while standing in front of Ian while his SMG is set to burst-mode (this should sound familiar to those who played Fallout 1 alongside this long-haired maniac)

 

[Chaossebba]

i think Fallout could definitly be turned into a movie, just depends on how they decide to do it. if they're gonna use the main story of Fallout 3 for the movie, they'd probably have to give some sort of name to the "Vault Dweller" and his dad!

 

[xitel]

We should get Uwe Boll to direct it!

 

[Chaossebba]

I'm pretty much with HSIA on this one - I would pay gladly to see it, but to encompass the many separate playstyles, would there not need to be a good thirty different films?

Indeed, will our hero go around with a minigun tearing stuff up while shouting like a madman. Or maybe he'd prefer the sneaky approach with a switchblade in hand? while we're on that, hows the personality gonna be? Evil is probably out of the picture for the most part, can't have a protagonist who murdered everyone around him for their spare change.

 

[DonPauliani]

Well, maybe some well-to-do japanese anime something-or-another (I don't know what their fancy titles are) will pick it up and CG the bejeezus out of it.

Not all videogame movies need to be Live action...

damned right, mate.

 

[Spartan Bannana]

No. Sure, it has potential, but everything has potential. The movie industry is so full of idiotic bigots though, that any attempt to make it into a movie now would probably be based on the third game, and an even bigger insult to the series than that one. It would probably be cutened up as well, to allow for more income from children watching it.

While I do not believe that Fallout 3's story would make that great of a movie, the game itself was not an insult to the series, and you cannot deny the stellar quality of the setting.

 

[Combined]

It MIGHT work. But, and that's a big but, it'd probably be messed up by the director/writer/costume department/ anyone else.

And I'll personally snipe Mr. Boll in the ASS if he even dares suggest a fallout movie.

 

[ygetoff]

fallout 3 would be the most "accessable" because it is on more systems...so the studio would probably choose that one...plus they could just get liam neelson to do the vault dweller's father...how would they recreate the ron perlman narration without it being very very hokey sounding?

 

[TheTygerfire]

I was having this very thought myself not too long ago. Definitely would look forward and see that movie. It should start at the first game's story though. (says the man that never played Fallout 1)

 

[Yokai]

We should get Uwe Boll to direct it!

Great Heavens no.

The thing about a Fallout movie is that it's not really linear enough as an RPG to make a good film. The script would have to have a bunch of completely made up stuff involving the main character following a very direct path in order to make a good movie, which kind of defeats the purpose of the original game. I don't think it would work too well.

Now, the Half-Life series, especially HL2, would make a totally kickass film. It's got a great story and relatively believable characters, and a linear plotline, which makes it much easier to adapt for a movie. Just as long as it isn't Boll or *shiver* Tarantino directing it...

 

[InsanityBaronOfAtrocity]

Get a half decent director on the job then yeah it'll be alright. Get Uwe Boll on it on the other hand....

 

[LesIsMore]

I honestly think the Fallout series has a lot more potential for a film than other games - the three Fallout titles and Tactics mean that there's no need to focus on any of their main plots, as long as you make sure to capture the '50s cyberpunk look and don't butcher the Deathclaws and Super Mutants from their in-game appearance (in what is known as the Wing Commander syndrome, if anyone else remembers how terrible that film was). If they can get the aesthetic look and attitude, they could make it about basically anything in the post-apocalyptic world.