IMO, I would back the first FO in that it establishes the universe and is a fairly easy story to follow. It would make for a great live action film I believe especially with the FX & CGI that can be done like they did in LoTR.

Hmm...perhaps I should start with a treatment for a screen play and send it off to Peter Jackson?

No. No, no, no, NO.

Just watch The Roadwarrior and leave it at that.

The movie industry cannot even get films like street figher or mario brothers right... they'll never get a fallout right...

And alot of what is fallout came from movies to began with.

Gentlemen, you are mistaken. :nope:

Yes Hollywood more often than not, buggers up the treatment of game based films, however, if the right writer and director get hold of the rights and material, just like Peter Jackson did with LoTR, then there is a good chance that something good, if not great can come of it.

How do you have an Open Ended and Non-Linear movie...?


<FAIL!>

Hollywood, generally has a hard time staying true to the original novels, which are a majority of their "future works". So I find it extremely hard to believe, that Hollywood, could do any justice to the Fallout Series. Or, God forbid, it will turn out like the "Mario Brothers" film...(I mean that made "Demolition Man" look good...).

Oh great, another one with the "It would be awesome if done right!" argument. Next thing you know someone is going to create another 'Fallout MMO' thread, saying that would be great "if done right".

Please, go ahead, speak your mind, but give me some good reasons how someone could create a great movie based on Fallout.

Besides that, your point about LotR doesn't really stand. It's based on a book, a very large book with extremely much backstory might I add. There are also a lot of fans of those books that really didn't like those Jackson movies.

I think it would work really well, I thought of the same idea.
(Wouldn't it be cool to have a fallout movie)

That'd be too cool!1

IT MIGHT BE GOOD!

The only game-to-movie that I saw that stay true to the game's "element" was Silent Hill. But that's because Silent Hill's Lead Writer of the game was one of the main writers for the movie. The games are fantastically written and can be easily converted in a movie. They are, afterall, linear games.

Fallout as a non-linear RPG could never make a good movie. Like some said, movies set in a post-apocalyptic universe have already been released. And some of them are good at that. But the Fallout universe as a movie.. hmm.. Get the whole Fallout 1 team, convert them as movie makers and let them keep the movie out of the cheezy and crappy industry that is Hollywood, then we'll see.

You have a point. If you start with something like Super Mario Brothers, it's awfully hard to put together a good movie - I mean, your storyline is about Magical Plumbers. But Fallout, that game has a brilliant storyline - many of the locations would be absolutely brilliant on the BIG SCREEN (the GLOW, the Cathedral - man those would look awesome). The fact that post-apocalyptic movies can be made successfully, and when they are successful, it's usually due to unique and interesting characters.

Sure there's the possibility of getting some pretty awful dreck out of a Hollywood movie - but I agree that there is definitely the potential of an amazing movie.

I agree with Silent Hill as a good example of a staying true to the spirit of the game. It usually helps if Uwe Bolle has nothing at all to do with it. I thought Hitman was also a very good very movie that captured much of the spirit of the game. (Haven't seen Max Payne yet, so I'll have to reserve judgement on that one - I have my doubts, though.)

I think I could see the possibility to translate Fallout to a videogame. Yeah... it would have to be done right, of course.

I've seen some emphasis on this thread about how to make a movie from a non-linear RPG. I think that's not the way to think of it, though. Certainly, I'd think there's plenty of room in the source material for a movie with a constrained plot. Fallout isn't solely about being open-ended after all.

I think they'd do best if they didn't try to copy the events of any of the games themselves. Stick with many of the themes, stay within canon of course. But a movie is always going to be a condensation of the source material. Lord of the Rings could never hope to bring in all of the background material and events of the books - you'd end up with book being a trilogy in it's own right. The concept isn't to make a 100% word-for-word translation of the original, but to capture the important elements and distill it into a finite run time.

I could see it working quite well if they started with the bare bones of the standard Fallout plot - leaving a Vault in search of some macguffin, finding your place in the Wasteland, uncovering some sinister plot to rule the remains of the world, foiling said attempts, and then being banished from your home. This is essentially your archetypal "Hero's Journey" (Google or Wiki it if you don't know what that means.) Things to focus on would be the retro-futurism contrasting 50's gee-whiz optimism with the harsh realities of life in the post-nuclear Wasteland, the sketchy moral choices the Vault Dweller would have to make, and of course a certain "gore factor." Frankly, it's my opinion that a good post-apocalyptic movie is a sci-fi that's filmed as if it were a horror movie (a la Mad Max and Road Warrior,) and in this respect it would fit rather well I think.

Oh, and of course you need Ron Perlman.

If anything it should be a spin-off so that it can't destroy the Fallout 1/2 canon and storyline as we know and love it.

QFT. Ron Perlman and a soundtrack with the Inkspots.

Ron Perlman is one of the only things that keeps Fallout 3 tied to the original games (that and Harold, though I hate his new voice actor). We have to keep him.

That's because it would take a genius stoned on crack to figure out a plausible way to make a good Mario film.

Fallout, on the other hand, is excellent film material. The real challenge would obviously be choosing the story. Would it be large scale focusing on the wasteland as a whole, or would it focus on one person's journey through the wastes. If you think about it, the setting in Fallout 3 is sort of similar to 'The Road', and the story of a Vault Dweller leaving the vault and having to survive in this living hell could make an excellent story, aslong as it was told with a Coen/Tarantino tone of darkness to it.

Save yourself time and money and avoid this movie like the plague. Not only was it a bad movie adaptation of a game, but it was a bad movie altogether. Never in my whole life have I come out of a cinema where everyone was shaking their heads.

I dunno. I've never seen one good live action movie based on a game. I'm guessing because the people who made these movies never played the games they were based on, and thus, don't know what makes it special.

A movie based on Fallout? Given the history of game movies, I'm against it.

And for the love of god, please don't let Uwe Boll get his grubby hands on Fallout.

Well, it can't be anywhere near as bad The Spirit...

+1

Yeah, I think the way to go would be to focus on the Vault Dweller and their journey through the Wastes. Actually, this is a theme I think they could take father in Fallout in general, is contrasting a safe normal life in the Vault to getting thrown out into Wastes and struggling to survive. What sort of moral challenges you will face in regards to your upbringing and the sorts of choices you have to make to survive. This of course brings up all sorts of questions as to whether life in the Vault is even preferable to that in the Wastes, where life is harder but you are at least "free"...

That's where I'd go with it at least.

Any concept can be made into a film and that film can be a good if not great film if the writing is good. It's as simple as that. However, there will always be trolls and knockers out there who are dead against anything newand are of the set-in-contrete/tunnel-vision-opinion that humanity should have never come down from the trees and started walking on the african plains. We'll just ignore that sad useless bunch of negetive twits as arguing with them will achieve as much as a one legged man in an b_um kicking competion Besides, if people listened to all the nay sayers, nothing would ever get achieved so it's good policy to ignore them as they are nothing more than a pack of oxygen thieves anyway.

Back on topic:

With Fallout we have a story that focuses on the initial quest of the vault dweller to find a replacement water chip but in the process discovers that there is far more at stake than merely his own vaults survival.

Now just because a game is non linear, the main plot is not and thus a coherent narrative/storyline can be constructed around the key events that appear in the 1st game.

The story should focus on the central plotline of the VD going out and exploring the wastes, after of course Ron Pearlman delivers the intro. In fact I'd see a role for him aside from being the narrator in the film, what character he'd play or voice over would have to be decieded but having him in at least a cameo role would be a nice nod to his involvement with the franchise. IMO, I'd cast him to play Harold the Ghoul as he is a common thread for the 3 games and he is long lived and thus would know the history of the valt dweller. Now before the nay-sayer crowd get on thier hobby horse of nononono, it's just an an opinion ok.

This is the way I see the story playing out:

Vault Dweller is sent out from Vault 13 to find vault 15 and it's water chip, comes across shady sands, meets Ian, investigates the ruins of vault 15, then does the quest killing Rad Scorpions and takes on the Khans to rescue Tandy. From there heads on to Junktown, picks up Dogmeat and journeys onto the Hub. Learns of Necropolis, investigates the place and comes across first Supermutants. From there moves onto the ruins of L.A and starts to encounter the masters followers. After coming across a patrol of the BoS and going to their base, heads off to the glow to learn more about the FEV. Returns with the holotapes and info about the master. Ends up trashing the church back in L.A and heads out to Mariposa to finish the job. Cut to epilogue where Vault Dweller is refused entry back into the vault to his contanimation from the outside. Ends with shot of VD wanders off into the wastes with Dogmeat with Ron Pearlman narrating the epilogue while the Ink Spots play as the credits role.

No. Movie companyies ruin video game movies, don't take them seriously enough, and are all around incompetant. For the most part. The Halo movie attempt is a great example of this.

For every decent video game film (I saw Silent Hill and found it to be very true to the material of the game, a rarity) there is a HEAP of crappy titles. In recent memory Doom, Max Payne, Dungeon Siege, dead or alive, Alone in the dark, Resident Evil: Extinction... It is a proven rare thing for director to adapt games into good movies.

Now, fallout... it has the basic elements of a film, sure. A reluctant hero sent in to the wasteland, a post apocalyptic world filled with danger, guns, six, and a journey. But those are just the barebones of what made fallout great. Witty dialogue,pop cultural references, cheeky jokes/humor, overdone gore/death and more... Case in point, a director/producer has a TON of opportunities to mess up this film and would more likely end up as barebones film.

Like the doom movie: "Ok, hell invades a mars station and demons/hell pours thru the portal there. Demons? Hmm, that is to touchy to the religious crowd... lets make them Mutants instead! Perfect! Heck lets throw a 1 min FPS moment in the movie to make players of the game happy!"

Btw, they are making "The Road" into a movie... filmed in nearby where i live in Pittsburg. I read the book and found it a sad tale and struggle for a father and his son (now it is going to be a daughter instead, in the movie). It is one thing to cut portions of a written story into a flim, it is done all the time. Lord of the Rings was a landmark in adaptation of a book to film in a long chain of successes. Peter was passionate about the books and had a vision for the film with a expectional cast, crew and art department. All the right players, at the right time. Could this happen for fallout?

And the comments lets get Peter Jackson to make the film!!111... Do you know how busy he is? Do you think he is even aware of this game? You do know he picks what HE wants to direct/produce... he is supposedly helping with Halo but that may now be in development hell.

Edit: Now graphic novels are being bought up to be made into films... Anime is starting up too with Dragonball, Akira, cowboy bebop... Hollywood is looking everywhere for fresh movies to make.