LONDON - Filmmaker Jonathan Nolan says he was both nervous and excited to adapt the popular post-apocalyptic video game series Fallout for television.
"(It was) intimidating, honestly, and the reason why is that I had played the games and loved them," Nolan said as he premiered the new TV show in London on Thursday (April 4).
The eight-episode live-action show comes from husband-and-wife duo Nolan and Lisa Joy, who previously created the hit series Westworld, and centres on three main characters; vault dweller Lucy MacLean (Ella Purnell), Maximus, a member of the Brotherhood of Steel (Aaron Moten) and mutated bounty hunter The Ghoul (Walton Goggins).
Set in the wasteland of Los Angeles some 200 years after a nuclear armageddon, it sees Lucy resurfacing from the vaults from the first time in her life and leaning on her skills, wits, and values to survive in a world very different from hers. Traversing the hostile terrain in search of her father (Kyle MacLachlan), Lucy crosses paths with Maximus and The Ghoul, each on a mission of their own.
Nolan, who co-wrote several of his brother Christopher Nolan's films, including Interstellar and The Dark Knight, also directed the show's first three episodes.
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"I think it's very similar to the games in the sense that each game in the franchise connects to this larger universe but each game has a new setting, a new set of characters and a new story. And just like that, our series is a new story with new characters but set in this larger universe," Nolan, 47, said.
"For myself, the fun of it was having loved the games and being passionate about them, I was excited to try to bring reality in terms of large on-location impactful photography and building all the creatures, building all the stunts, the power armour ... It was just like being a kid in a candy shop."
Fallout starts streaming on Prime Video on April 11.