Bethesda open to Fallout 3 film idea

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Take it with a grain of salt as this is the jokey, off-hand comment style usual to MTV Multiplayer's One-Liners, but Pete Hines on Fallout 3.<blockquote>“You know, if we f— this game up, nobody’s gonna want to touch us with a ten foot pole. [Our attitude is] we’re a game company, let’s make the best game we can make and all that other stuff can sort its self out once we’re doing our job. Our job is not to try and make a thing that would make a great movie, we have to make a great game. If somebody says ‘we wanna do this, this is the guy who’s gonna direct it,’ then yeah! [laughs] If Quentin Tarantino wants to do ‘Fallout 3,’ yes, we will hear that proposal! [laughs harder] If Ridley Scott wants to do ‘Fallout 3,’ we will have that lunch!”</blockquote>Wouldn't there have to be a Fallout film first, Pete?
 
Notice it's not, "if so and so wants to do a fallout movie". It's, "if so and so wants to do a fallout 3 movie."

Beautiful. :|
 
the idea that anyone other than uwe boll would be interested in turning one of bethesda's sophomoric "main quests" into a movie script is so far fetched I don't even know what to say
 
Modeling the DOOM movie after DOOM3 worked so well ! Let's do the same for the FALLOUT movie ! Yaaaay !
 
oihrebwe said:
the idea that anyone other than uwe boll would be interested in turning one of bethesda's sophomoric "main quests" into a movie script is so far fetched I don't even know what to say
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Even if the main quest is bad, which remains to be seen, you greatly underestimate people's willingness to make bad movies.

Besides, they didn't say "if anyone wants to" they said "if certain big name well respected directors want to." Hell, I think they'd hear out Quentin Tarantino if he wanted to make it a hybrid of Fallout and Katamari Damacy just for the chance to talk to Tarantino.
 
I always thought Fallout 1 or 2 would make a cool movie since I love Mad Max, but it's thoroughly depressing how there are so many talented film people out there and none of them would be the ones to grab the rights to a Fallout movie. Game movies are slowly getting better and better though, the most promising currently being Max Payne, and Hitman, though over actionized, was OK. Some day the hollywood idiots will realize that you can literally take a great game story and not have to frak it up in order for it to be a great movie. They always think they have to add in there own 'artistic license' BS. Just like Silent Hill should have been a direct port of Silent Hill 2's story, STARRING Sean Bean, but no...it's some weird prologue crap with a horrible child actor. Here's hoping SH2 will be what I was hoping for in the first place.

Uwe Boll is to busy trying to make a Postal and a GTA movie. I hate that idiot. lol, and I liked Doom OK, it just wasn't Doom. More like 'Zombie Universal Soldier Lite'. :)
 
Outbreak said:
Just like Silent Hill should have been a direct port of Silent Hill 2's story, STARRING Sean Bean, but no...it's some weird prologue crap with a horrible child actor. Here's hoping SH2 will be what I was hoping for in the first place.
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OK, I'm not disagreeing that Silent Hill 2 would have made a better movie, but that was not "prologue crap" that was Silent Hill 1, adapted for the screen by a genius art director and ten thousand chimps at typewriters for the script.
 
I'm not fighting you on it, but although some of the basics were there, it wasn't the same story as the game was it? I thought it was a specially made prologue to SH2. I didn't remember anything that was in the first game, although it has been a long time since I played it.

Even though I just smashed it with that crap comment, what frustrated me badly about Silent Hill (the movie) was that I liked the story, loved the art/effects, loved the MAIN actors (except for that horrible little girl!) and yet it was like...a mess. I don't even know how to describe it. I especially liked when the lead gal would be on the verge of a breakdown when seeing one horrible thing then be like "whatever" when she sees something much worse later. (confused) I know she's a good actress. Bleh. I liked the director a lot too, which disappointed me even more. It had so much potential. I could see the effort when it was there. (sad) I adore the games.
 
bonustime said:
The idea of a Fallout movie is horrifying.
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There already is one, it's called "Mad Max" :P

In all seriousness though, I think Fallout would work as a decent movie, the problem is the length. Fallout 1 would have to have 2 movies to encompass the entire plot, while #2 would have to at least be a trilogy.

Regardless, I'd still be there on opening day in a heartbeat if they released an actual Fallout movie.

I wonder what the cast would be like in a Fallout film? Or, which characters they would actually include in the movie?
 
Outbreak said:
I'm not fighting you on it, but although some of the basics were there, it wasn't the same story as the game was it? I thought it was a specially made prologue to SH2. I didn't remember anything that was in the first game, although it has been a long time since I played it.
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Well, in SH 1 it's the father who's looking for the girl in Silent Hill, but they thought it would work better with her mother looking for her, and the game devs said when the movie was first being discussed that if they were making the game today, the protagonist would be a woman. Other than that, they changed a lot of the back story especially re: the cult, but the idea is the same.

Even though I just smashed it with that crap comment, what frustrated me badly about Silent Hill (the movie) was that I liked the story, loved the art/effects, loved the MAIN actors (except for that horrible little girl!) and yet it was like...a mess. I don't even know how to describe it. I especially liked when the lead gal would be on the verge of a breakdown when seeing one horrible thing then be like "whatever" when she sees something much worse later. (confused) I know she's a good actress. Bleh. I liked the director a lot too, which disappointed me even more. It had so much potential. I could see the effort when it was there. (sad) I adore the games.
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Yeah, I expected more from Gans, although I've since learned that the horrible script is pretty much Roger Avary's style. How that man was involved with Pulp Fiction's writing I will never know.
 
I don't care if they had some chimeric monster of George Lucas, Stanley Kubric and Chris Nolan do a Fallout movie... it would never, ever work because a movie can't be non-linear and that's what Fallout is ALL about.

But it would be cool to see a modern movie with a similar setting... or even better: an HBO miniseries

Pipe dreams blow
 
ComradeNu said:
I don't care if they had some chimeric monster of George Lucas, Stanley Kubric and Chris Nolan do a Fallout movie... it would never, ever work because a movie can't be non-linear and that's what Fallout is ALL about.
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Go see Clue and see how that holds up.

JMan said:
I wonder what the cast would be like in a Fallout film? Or, which characters they would actually include in the movie?
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Ideally, it would be Patrick Stewart as a kind of 007 secret agent with mental powers that can make women take all their clothes off.
 
@Mandrake: Yeah, thanks for reminding me about the first game, and like I said, I don't know what happened with the movie to really make fall apart. I didn't have a problem with Radha being the protaganist at all, and the basic story. (especially the end; very cool) They were so close to making it one of the first great game movies. If I had to guess, I would say rushed, but I don't know. You may just as well be right about the writing.
 
I'm just waiting for someone to want to make a video game movie with a respectful attitude to the source material. I think with Fallout it might be possible as the source is pretty strong on its own. The only problem would be marketing it to American audiences who don't want shades of gray for their heroes.

Well, if Watchmen can do well, maybe there's hope.
 
no...oh my god...no please....don't ever let this happen. We have seen enough fallout rape for the past 4 years...not this one ! :tired:
 
Then they can start selling the D&D movie, the Halo movie, the Fallout 3 movie, the Doom movie and an Uwe Boll Anthology in one mega-package.
 
I picture him as pretty much perpetually rubbing his palms together. He's like a cartoon villain.

Although, I have it on good authority that at certain times he's punching people who don't like his movies. So it's not actually perpetual.
 
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