‘Fallout’ Television Series in the Works at Amazon Prime Video

It’s time! We are finally getting a Fallout television adaptation!

Amazon Studios has licensed the rights to the Fallout, with producers Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s Kilter Films attached to produce the project, currently in development with a series commitment.

The series is set to be developed by Amazon Studios and Kilter Films in association with Bethesda Game Studios and Bethesda Softworks, with executive producers Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, and Athena Wickham for Kilter Films, Todd Howard for Bethesda Game Studios, and James Altman for Bethesda Softworks.

This is what Joy and Nolan had to say about the news:

Fallout is one of the greatest game series of all time. Each chapter of this insanely imaginative story has cost us countless hours we could have spent with family and friends. So we’re incredibly excited to partner with Todd Howard and the rest of the brilliant lunatics at Bethesda to bring this massive, subversive, and darkly funny universe to life with Amazon Studio.

Kilter Films

Albert Cheng, COO and Co-Head of Television at Amazon Studios also commented on the news:

Fallout is an iconic global franchise, with legions of fans worldwide and a rich, deeply compelling storyline that powers it. And Jonah and Lisa are the perfect storytellers to bring this series to life. We’re thrilled to join with Bethesda to bring Fallout to television.

Amazon Studios

Fallout is a series of post-apocalyptic role-playing video games currently owned by Bethesda Game Studios. The series is set in a fictionalized United States in an alternate history scenario that diverges from reality following World War II. In this alternative atompunk “golden age”, the transistor was never invented. As such, a bizarre socio-technological status quo emerges, in which advanced robots, nuclear-powered cars, directed-energy weapons, and other futuristic technologies are seen alongside 1950s-era computers and televisions. The series is set during the 22nd and 23rd centuries, and its atompunk retrofuturistic setting and art work are influenced by the post-war culture of 1950s United States, with its combination of hope for the promises of technology and the lurking fear of nuclear annihilation.

Todd Howard from Bethesda Game Studios is an executive producer on the Fallout Amazon series. This is what he had to say about the television adaptation news:

Over the last decade, we looked at many ways to bring Fallout to the screen, but it was clear from the moment I first spoke with Jonah and Lisa a few years ago, that they and the team at Kilter were the ones to do it right. We’re enormous fans of their work and couldn’t be more excited to work with them and Amazon Studios.

Bethesda Game Studios

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