Given the fact that Bethesda Game Studios won’t even start working on Fallout 5 until The Elder Scrolls 6 is out of the way (which itself only recently started full production), fans of the franchise clearly have long wait ahed of themselves for the next mainline game in the series- but Amazon’s upcoming Fallout TV show could fill that void. Or, at least, that’s what the show’s executive producer Jonathan Nolan suggests.
In an interview with Total Film, speaking about the upcoming show, Nolan likened it to Batman, in that each new instalment tells its own story that is so separate from the others that every new story gets to have a lot of creative freedom. According to Nolan, thanks to that creative freedom, the Fallout TV series feels “almost like Fallout 5“, other than the fact that it’s not going to tell its story in an interactive manner, the way series fans will obviously be used to.
“Fallout, in my career, is closest to the work we did in adapting Batman, where there’s so much storytelling in the Batman universe that there is no canonical version of it, so you’re free to invent your own,” Nolan said. “Each of the [Fallout] games is a discrete story – different city, distinct protagonist – within the same mythology. Our series sits in relation to the games as the games sit in relation to each other. It’s almost like we’re Fallout 5. I don’t want to sound presumptuous, but it’s just a non-interactive version of it, right?”
The Fallout series is set to premiere on Amazon Prime Video on April 12. Bethesda’s Todd Howard, who’s also executive producing the show, has confirmed that it’ll be part of official Fallout canon.
Meanwhile, if reports are to be believed, fans of the series also have a remaster of Fallout 3 to look forward to.