Bethesda has no present plans to bring Fallout to the silver screen, but they’re not ruling out the possibility, either.
In an interview with GamesIndustry, the game’s creator Todd Howard said that the studio held a number of meetings with movie executives over the past years to listen to their pitches, but nothing really stood out or clicked with him.
“We’ve had a couple of in-roads, particularly with Fallout, which is a bit stickier than Elder Scrolls, but everybody’s kind of asked and I’ve taken a number of meetings over the years and nothing quite clicked,” he said.
“And that may happen. I don’t rule it out, but nothing really has clicked where – the games are popular enough and that’s their identity.”
Howard says that if a movie based on Fallout had been released prior to their latest title, fans of the series would’ve felt very differently about the game when it was announced.
“One of them [the film or the game] wouldn’t be quite right and you wouldn’t want that to be the game [should] the movie take it in another direction,” he said. “I would say we have a pretty high bar as far as what we would want it to be if it ever happened and nothing’s quite clicked.
“Even little things like, ‘What does the vault suit look like?’ – every little thing we obsess over so the game is the thing where it really exists.”
Interplay, the original owners of the Fallout license, originally planned to release a Fallout movie. The publisher founded a division called Interplay Films to do just that, but nothing came of it. A script for the film was set to be written by Brent Friedman, the writer of Dark Skies and Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The writer has since released one of the three treatments he wrote for the film’s script, which you can see here.
