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Why Fallout director Jonathan Nolan believes video games will become a major source of inspiration for movies, TV

  • TV and film adaptations of video games are often disappointing, but Jonathan Nolan, who directed Amazon Prime series Fallout, thinks that is changing
  • He talks about being a game fan and his belief that video games could be the next big inspiration for Hollywood and streaming companies

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The producer-director of Amazon Prime series Fallout, Jonathan Nolan (above), who also co-produced Westworld, talks about video games, and how they could become a major source for film and TV adaptations. Photo: Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP
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Video games are likely to become the top source of story inspiration for Hollywood, producer and director Jonathan Nolan says ahead of the release of his adaptation of the post-apocalyptic role-playing game Fallout.

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Streaming from Thursday, Fallout takes place 200 years after a nuclear war, when the descendants of people who hid in bomb shelters are forced to return to the irradiated surface beset by violence, anarchy and mutants.

The series was developed by Nolan and his wife, Lisa Joy, who together produced the acclaimed series Westworld, which won the Critics’ Choice award for most exciting new series in 2016.

Nolan, the brother of Christopher Nolan, whose biopic Oppenheimer was the hit of this year’s Oscars, also directs the first three episodes of Fallout.
The series is airing a little more than a year after The Last of Us, another series inspired by a post-apocalyptic video game. Acclaimed by the public and critics, The Last of Us, by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, showed that a successful transition from console to live action is possible.
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