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Bethesda Game Studios is well-known for creating popular video game series, but for the first time in the studios’ history, theirFalloutseries was adapted into a TV series that was released on Amazon Prime Video on 10th April, 2024. Thanks to shows likeThe Last of Us, video game adaptations are becoming quite popular nowadays. So naturally, Bethesda hopped on the bandwagon as well.
Todd Howard, Bethesda’s boss, recently explained that Jonathan Nolan was the man who convinced him as he was always against this idea. Bethesda also has theElder Scrollsseries under its belt and fans have been eagerly waiting for an announcement regarding the adaptation of this video game franchise as well but this project will only happen if someone like Nolan works on it.
TheFalloutTV series was only greenlit because of Jonathan Nolan’s unique approach
Bethesda Game Studios boss,Todd Howard, finally revealed the reason why he agreed to this project at theFalloutTV series’ premiere in Los Angeles. In a conversation on the red carpet withIGN, Howard explained that it wasJonathan Nolan‘s vision that convinced him,
“This is something that I said no to for like, a decade – Everyone wanted to make a (Fallout) TV show or a movie, and I was like, ‘nahhh.’ I wasn’t really feeling it. I met Jonah – Jonathan Nolan – and I love his work: The Dark Knight, Interstellar, Person of Interest, and then Westworld, and he and I kind of hit it off and I felt like, ‘Hey, do you wanna do this? I’d like to approach it like it’s another entry in the games.’ Like, let’s do a new location, new story, let him and his crazy lunatic people he works with kind of do what they do, and we’re really happy with how it turned out.”
Just like Rockstar Games, Bethesda Game Studios was also not interested in adapting a video game series, as there are high chances of these adaptations butchering the franchise by not staying true to the source material. Jonathan Nolan treated the project like another entry in the video game series, an approach that kept Howard hooked.
Fallout Fans Already Have a New Vegas-based Conspiracy from Prime Video’s Show
Falloutpremiered on Prime Video on August 25, 2025, and upon release, it was bombarded with positive reviews.IGNhas claimed in its review that it is “among the best video game adaptations ever made.” Producers have expressed interest in working on a second season, and if not, theCalifornia Film Commission made them an offerthey can’t refuse.
Will fans get anElder ScrollsTV series in the future?
In his short interview, Howard also talked about adapting other Bethesda’s titles, particularly theElder Scrollsseries. Howard made it clear that he does not like this idea but there is a possibility if someone like Nolan works on the project,
“I don’t know. There’s nothing in the works – Everybody asks, like, about Elder Scrolls, and I keep saying no also. And I would approach those – I’ll probably say no. You never know if someone’s gunna click – I can’t predict the future but this has been one of the most enjoyable projects I’ve ever done, and we’re just kind of over the moon, everybody in the studio with seeing it this way.”
Jonathan Nolan has revealed in the past thatthe success ofThe Last of UsTV series is the reason why fans got theFalloutTV series. For many years, video game studios steered away from this idea but now, thanks to fans’ demand, many studios have started working onadapting their popular video games.
Fallout, streaming now on Prime Video.
Farhan Asif
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Farhan Asif is a gaming writer at FandomWire who specializes in video games/franchises like Helldivers 2, GTA, and Call of Duty. Apart from 1600+ published articles for FandomWire, he has also written more than 750 articles for AnimatedTimes. He has a passion for coding and is pursuing a degree in computer science. During his free time, Farhan loves to play video games and hopes to create a video game of his own one day.
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