(Lille) The Fallout series, adaptation for Amazon Prime of the eponymous video game, promises to be “huge, daring and funny”, assures AFP its co-screenwriter Lisa Joy, president of the international jury of the Series Mania festival, who ends Friday in Lille.
“I’m very excited about Fallout. I’ve seen scenes in the episodes we’re editing and it’s huge, racy and funny, in a tone that I’ve never seen anywhere before, it’s very crazy (“gonzo ”)”, assures the co-creator of Westworld, at the helm of this new series with her husband Jonathan Nolan (brother of Christopher).
“The tone of the game is extended in the series, which is very subversive in a way, and very humorous”, she adds about this production embodied in particular by Walton Goggins (Justified), Ella Purnell (Yellowjackets) and Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks, Desperate Housewives).
“We’re mostly in post-production right now,” she added, without giving a release date.
A hit franchise, the game Fallout is set in a world ravaged by a global nuclear war that has led to the appearance of mutants.
The expectation around this project is all the stronger as another series adapted from a post-apocalyptic game, The Last of Us (HBO) set the bar high at the start of the year, meeting with great public success. and criticism.
“Video games are a form of storytelling” in their own right. “It’s great to take the skeleton, the super world, and the super story of Fallout and dive into it and play with that environment,” while still having room for “interpretation,” says Lisa Joy.
Season 2 of The Last of Us will probably hit screens in 2025, HBO boss Casey Bloys told AFP on Thursday.
