Fallout TV series director Jonathan Nolan says his obsession with Fallout 3 “almost derailed his career” and that pleasing video game fans is “a fool’s errand”
by Anteater_Able
Fallout TV series director Jonathan Nolan says his obsession with Fallout 3 “almost derailed his career” and that pleasing video game fans is “a fool’s errand”
by Anteater_Able
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Chris: Jonathan! Please! We have one more Batman movie to make, can’t you just save and quit for a while?
Between this and James McAvoy, I wonder how many careers Bethesda has had on the line for gamers?
https://www.pcgamer.com/james-mcavoy-was-so-hooked-on-oblivion-he-had-to-burn-the-disc/
My young adult life was derailed by Fallout 3, Halo 3, and GTA SA.
Really not that difficult to please most of them if you really love the source material and do an earnest attempt at an adaptation.
It’s the writers that believe not being a fan of the source material is a positive trait and “subverting expectations” is a necessity that draw the ire of the fans.
All we give a fuck about is respect for the source material.
That’s it. It’s only foolish to call it a fool’s errand. It’s really a low fucking bar.
Like changes WILL be made. It’s an adaptation—some mega loser neck beards will be mad, but that’s such a small number.
Gamers just want to see their favorite IPs translated to screen without the (usually) inexperienced show runners be handed a massive massive massive budget with AAA actors only to piss all over the source material in the name of “subversion” or whatever.
The Witcher is probably the best example of this. You had Henry Cavil, a diehard nerd and Witcher expert, and told him to stfu while a showrunner who clearly had no idea how to produce or write such a big budget show OR understand the source material at all—kick out Henry and run the show into the ground—shameful. Also those dumb ball sack Nilfgaard armors.
Like I’m not saying it’s *easy* to adapt a video game to film/TV—but why the fuck do these massive networks keep giving millions of dollars and some of the most beloved IPs to showrunners who have zero idea what they are adapting and who’s only experience is writing for like a web series comic or some weak sauce shit lol?
We just want the story and characters and world of the game, put into the screen. Stop trying to mangle the script and the art design and the characters for no fucking reason lol.
The Last of Us seems to be like the only show to ever try to understand and respect the source material in order to adapt a beloved video game to the big budget tv screen. And it was super successful.
I think that if anyone can pull this off it’s Jonathan Nolan. The Fallout games don’t really follow any particular characters from game to game, and the times and places they occur in vary quite a bit, so there isn’t a need to keep any specific character true to their in-game counterparts. From the trailers it looks like what they will be doing is fleshing out a lot of the different factions that are prevalent in the games like the Brotherhood and NCR. The one thing Im really hoping for is that there will be some locations and factions and even minor characters from New Vegas since it takes place 15 years after in the same vicinity, but even if it doesn’t, I don’t think it’s a big deal at all.
-quote from a fool.