dudes ive played fallout only a few times at my freinds house and igotta say, after an hour of playing the story is just too awesome. Nuclear Holucaust? THATS CRAZY! So why not make a movie u know? Remember how everyone freaked out when that rumor started about halo making a movie.....this would be triple that! Millions would watch it i garuntee it :fallout:

so tell me wat you guys think....well actually dont tell me tell the dudes who made this game!

NO

It wouldn't work they'd screw it up. Movie producers always emphasize too much on the game mechanics and not enough on the plot/story so, as the above poster said, no.

Because FO is a series of RPGs it would not work very well, because the basis of all of the games is make your own choice. Because the storyline is not linear, it would not be easy (or possible in my view) to make a movie, a good one at least.

Games generally make bad films. If it's going to work out, they do it the other way around. Certainly not role playing exploration games, though.
There's truth behind there going to be a Gears of War movie. That might work out because there's only one way to play Gears, and other like-minded games. But, Fallout? Too much to explore - the movie would end up being hours and hours long.

I really wouldnt want a Fallout movie.

Id would ruin what I like about the game.

^^Exactly. The whole point of an RPG is that there is an almost limitless amount of choices to what you can do/see/become. If they were to make a movie it would only be loosely based on Fallout 3, and therefore (imo) not worthy to be branded as such.

It would be cool but they would completely [censored] it up so I'm gonna go with NO.

Generally games don't make good movies.

I'd have to agree with the majority of posters in here for most of the reasons stated.

It would depend on how they made it. If they tried to adapt the game to film, it would be horrible.

However, if they took some basics from the game; factions, ghouls, vaults, ect. And made a movie which had no relation to the games other then those simularities it could be quite good. It would also depend on how they made it, CGI tends to be a lot more accepted for game to film conversations, but live action could also work if the time was taken to do it right.

Agreed. I don't see why a Fallout movie would have to try and be a condensation Fallout 3 in the first place. All the Fallout games follow a pretty similar plot convention - so a movie telling a new storyline that followed that would be fine with me.

(ie, a story about a Vault Dweller who has to leave in search of something important and along the way encounters a Supermutant threat and has to enlist the reluctant aid of the Brotherhood of Steel in combating them - leading to a climactic encounter with a horribly mutated leader-type; making lots of morally-questionable choices as he explores a retro-futuristic Wasteland.)

Afraid to say there is a movie on IMDB called "Fallout" and the description suggests.....

There are plenty of strories in the Fallout universe, and I dont think we just need one way to tell them.

Game ---> Movie == 99% chances of Utter Failure.

And History have proven this fact quite well.

Mabey, Urgh, NO!

It'll fail like all other Games to Movies.

Take RE They tried to make a great game into a film and failed badly.

The storyline had nothing to do with the game story line so why did they claim the name?

Just to get the game a more publicity standing, Which puts a downer on the game because of the crap FILM!

End Of Meanings: No Thank you, All understood?

Game to movie transitions are often poor. But a Fallout movie is in the works. So you may aswell just pray the Director isn't an uninspired nonce.

Fallout movies? go watch Mad Max 1-3.

you forgot the exclamation point.
NO! see like that.

It wouldn't work out. It'd have to be NC-17 to capture Fallout, otherwise it might as well be a 1950's visioned Terminator.

Plus, movies based on games rarely work out to be good ideas. Too often the movie either deviates way too far(Doom), becomes corrupted(Anything be Ewe Boll, Hitman), or was never a viable plan to start out with(Everything by Ewe Boll). You have to take the game's general premise, and craft a new story(Resident Evil, Tomb Raider).

The biggest problem is though, narrow audience. The vast majority of gamers are playing Mario Party and NFL, from there, your audience shrinks drastically. I mean most games not one of the above sells at most 10 million units, RPG's are lucky to hit 4 million. Studios shoot for audiences in the hundreds of millions.

Seriously, there's less than 20 million X-box 360's, less PS3's than 360's, and the Wii's real user base is probably only a bit above 20 million. All combined there's not even 100 million active gamers(Consoles only).

It's just not a good situation, not a viable buisness plan. Need a bigger market, need around 10 more years for another generation of gamers. Plus, need to keep people like Ewe Boll the heck away from the subject.

Finally, Games are still perceived by movie goers in the >35 crowd as "Kid material". Which explains the above. Remember, if you're much over 35, you were older when the Atari came out, there were no computers at home, and arcade games were extremely simplistic. Gen X and younger is where gamers are concentrated.

Which, at NC-17, or R, you've eliminated an easy half of your potential market. You're left with an 18 year age range window, or roughly 1/5 of the total population range. You're also stuck with what market you do have is either...

1. In college and time/money constrained, and in the highest piracy demographic.
2. In small children constrained, and least likely to have free time.

Bad buisness idea.

Guys, don't be foolish, Fallout would make a fantastic movie! All we need is the greatest video game to movie director of all time:

Uwe Boll!

/exit stage left

I coulda sworn that I read Uwe boll's production company had already been picked for the movie.

You were probably just reading the script for the movie.

"Why would anyone start a nuclear holocaust, sow untold destruction on his fellow man?!"
"Uwe Boll was gonna make the Fallout movie."
"We got any nukes left?"

I think it would be a good movie, as long as it was based on the universe of fallout, not any particular game.

Well the Halo movie has been back and forth and i think they've haulted production now, so that means it svcks. Same as the Tomb Raider movies, Hitman movie and all the rest that was originated from games. It's a bad idea. Well actually it's more like a swing and a miss, nice idea, but still bad idea.

hitman wasn't even a bad movie, i seriously don't know what you guys are talking about, they had to make a few concessions to make the story fit big deal.
you should not expect to get a 100% true adaptation since that would be impossible there simply are some things that work in games that don't work in movies.
is it possible to make a movie based on fallout lore? definately, will there be some changes? definately, just svck it up, it's not like they are forcing you to watch it.

Actually, you should, that's the whole reason the transistion always fails. A director could make any film about any hitman, they don't need to annoy a certain demographic by bringing 'that certain hitman' into a movie, the games themselves, give the fans what they want. Once a game always a game.