What was your relationship like with the “Fallout” franchise previous to engaged on the present, after which how a lot did the video games affect the route by which you took the sequence?
Yeah, I believe it began for me with a love of the video games. I began with the franchise in “Fallout 3.” Graham [Wagner], one in all our showrunners, began from the very, very starting, OG, the very first recreation. However I began with “Fallout 3” with [game director] Todd Howard’s first entry within the franchise, and I simply by no means skilled something fairly prefer it. And the video games are so bizarre and so distinctive of their tone and their scope. The ambition of the storytelling, the ethical ambiguity of it, the darkness, the political, satirical, subversive qualities, all these items, that I simply thought had been extraordinary in gaming.
And so it actually, for us, began there. It began with a love of those video games and a want to take that distinctive tone from the video games and convey them to, I would not say a wider viewers as a result of these are extremely widespread video games, however possibly to an viewers that hadn’t skilled it earlier than.
You talked about getting your begin with “Fallout 3.” I imagine there is a quote from you the place you jokingly stated that “The Darkish Knight Rises” could have been delayed a bit due to “Fallout 3.” Did “Fallout 3” possibly affect “Darkish Knight Rises” since that film does contain nuking a metropolis?
Good query. Yeah, to some extent, most likely inconceivable that it did not on some degree as a result of I used to be enjoying that recreation and desirous about the place we might go together with that franchise. I believe one of many issues that I believed was so … And truly it is humorous, it is true. I keep in mind having a dialog, not essentially particularly about “Fallout,” however one of many experiences that you’ve enjoying “Fallout” is it simply goes there.
“Fallout” is the expertise of the pond that you simply’re enjoying in simply getting larger and larger till it is an ocean. The expertise of enjoying these video games is one by which the grandeur of it, the ambition of it, it simply goes there and it goes there when it comes to the world being over and making an attempt to determine, okay, what occurs after that? And I believe to some extent, yeah, I believe that one of many issues that we talked about with “The Darkish Knight Rises” which will have been kicking round in my head, partly as a result of the expertise of enjoying these video games was that want. In all of the Batman motion pictures, there’s this second the place it is, “Batman’s going to avoid wasting the town!” And the query was, properly, what if he did not? What if we went there? What if we went right into a model of Gotham by which he loses, they lose? And it’s important to think about what occurs after the world is over.