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Spencer Harrison

First time out of the vault
I'm another aspiring, unproven and probobly talentless filmmaker, and much like the other gentleman who has posted about the subject, I am fascinated by the post apocolyptic setting and the genius that Fallout distilled it into. I've tossed around ideas for awhile on how to make a feature film script that would take full advantage of all Fallout's great elements and have come up short. It seems to me that combining action, science fiction, human drama and black humor is something only maybe Quentin Tarantino could pull off in a single film. In other words, establishing a tone for a Fallout movie that captured everything in the game would be near impossible. But the other day I was watching the Sergio Leone "Dollars" movies. The dubbed westerns with eastwood, where hes the Man With No Name who wanders around, plays both sides then delivers a moraly satisfying conclusion. It hit me: Those movies could just as well be post apocolyptic. Their evolution is interesting as well. The first two are fairly simple yarns with great, diverse characters, enjoyable one liners and slow, deliberate showdowns. The third (the good the bad and the ugly) takes a much more epic approach, but with already established characters and visual themes. So I started watching a ton of westerns, and started to see how universal their brutality, humor and romanticism can be. Recently, Rob Zombie reinvented Peckinpah's Wild Bunch as The Devil's Rejects and saw good returns on it. Combining that classic's brand of outlaw honor and heavy gore with his stylized characters and setting, he stretched both the western genre and the horror genre to new territory. Post apocolyptic could benefit from the same thing, and the humor and character types present in the Dollars trillogy are just what the doctor ordered to give fallout a proper channel. Or maybe I'm a crazy douche. Watch the movies, and tell me what you think.
 
Mad Max?

Besides that, the enter key is your friend.

Anyway, methinks you're talking about a movie in the Fallout setting, and yes, it could work.

Then again, the 'Dollars' movies' story and characters came largely from Kurosawa's Sanjuro and Yojimbo, so this doesn't really have much to do with westerns.
 
Then credit where credit is due to the characters for Kurosawa, and the visuals to Leone. I'm interested in the opportunities that style of movie gives for subtle humor, action, story and setting. It seems to fit Fallout like a glove. As far as Mad Max, odviously thats the benchmark, and fallout itself draws heavily from it. It would require a great deal of thought and effort to make a film that retains that feeling while expanding on the road warrior trilogy. Humor and pre war culture play smaller roles in Max's world, and that would odviously be expanded greatly for a Fallout setting.
 
It would be cool to see the Trio-scene in a Fallout setting... we see the main character, Ian and a ghoul standing at a graveyard. They look at each other for 5 minutes... than all of sudden the main character grabs his Vindicator and plows them both down...
 
Exactly! It would be fun to storyboard some scenes, shot for shot, but in fallout type atmosphere. How you would shape an original film, is the question. But the basic themes are there.
 
Yeah Rob Zombie and horror/western with industrial elements. Its fit to postnuclear dark humor. Main character was live in Vault 13 (bad luck, thats why movie should be funny in some way)
 
Well I can only ask that Jim Carry be kept out of it.... as well a Ewe Boll. For the love of everything that is fucking holy, if Ewe Boll gets ahold of it, all is lost, forever.

As far as it goes? I am never in a shortage of ideas, often time this proves a bane as my thoughts become cluttered with hundreds of snipits of sequence in my head for random stories. Or freeze frames from a comic.
As result I occasionally wonder how one could construct a faithful fallout plot.

The ideas I've tossed around in my head. Never really make the character nameless prese' just never SAY his name.
What I mean to clarify this is, like Clint Eastwoods character was still called Blondy by everyone.
I figure have things like when the begining of the movie opens with the overseer saying things he says "You have been selected" and whenever the character introduces himself have him say things like "I am a man on a mission" or "I am a man from over the mountains."

Then at the end of (I figure it would have to be a trilogy) when he finally destroys the master and the master in his dying breaths goes "Who are you...." he would reply (because he now has a suitable amount of infamy built up)

"I am the Vault Dweller."

As far as basic plot structure and how to incorporate a bit of romance in the irradiated wastes? Give the main character a girl still in the vault.

The human drama comes in where she slowly discovers how much of a Nazi the Overseer is. So on that half of the story you have sort of a suspense, drama going on as you slowly uncover the Overseers warped mind and downright hateful ignorance.

I could go on as to the basic outlay I have for the movie in my head but I don't want to make this post any longer than it is. If you guys want to see what I have come up with, then I will post it.
 
Samuel L jackson needs to play sulik

tom hanks got to play the vaultdweller

the chosen one = hmmm ill leave that one open

tandi = angelina jolie

ian - edward norton

lynette - condolezza rice

harold - hmmm
 
Perhaps Brad Pitt for the Vault dweller? I mean as proven in a few movies he can do the action thing. Hes not a *terrible* actor.

He has about the right build for it too.

Gizmo- Bob Hoskins

Tycho-hmmm
Katja- Kate Nauta
 
Might I add, yet again as said in a lot of previous threads, that choosing any one path in Fallout would be completely counter to anything Fallout stands for?
If you want a Fallout movie, and don't want to piss off a lot of people, it'll have to be outside of the scope of Fallout 1 and 2.
 
SmithWesen said:
Well I can only ask that Jim Carry be kept out of it....
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Why would you say a thing like that? Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind clearly shows what an incredibly talented actor he really is. Some of the best movies I've ever seen feature him: the aforementioned Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Truman Show and Man on the Moon.

I'm sure Jim Carey would make a wonderful Vault Dweller. :look:
 
Sander said:
If you want a Fallout movie, and don't want to piss off a lot of people, it'll have to be outside of the scope of Fallout 1 and 2.
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The Fallout Universe is wide and diverse with characters. A movie that showed the events of the Great War, or what is happening in other parts of the world (China, Africa, Russia, etc.) would be interesting, and expand the universe at the same time.

The writers of the movie should be us, the fans of the game.

As for actors, I don't watch alot of movies. I'll leave that task to you.
 
Eureaka!

Everyone post their e-mails below, get writing parts of a script, e-mail everyone who puts theirs down, they help out. We could do an amateur video.

I'm a geinus!
 
Not to directly insult a lot of people. (as the intent is more of an indirect insult to a lot of people)

But I question the ability of many peoples ability to write a quality script.

Also that would require people consenting on one idea for a script. Which may be harder than it sounds.
 
Hmm. Very true. Well, that was just an idea I threw out there, but the writers for the Fallout movie should be the fans with good writing talent. These are the guys who know what they're talking (or writing) about.

Another thought I've been tossing around is how to introduce the Fallout universe to the unwashed masses. Serenity did a terrific job by introducing the universe and characters, while also giving the fans a feeling of being right at home. A good overview would be to show the opening cinematic of Fallout 1, then jump into Vault 13 where the Overseer is explaining the situation to the people who are about to draw straws. That is, if the movie loosely followed the game plot, but I think the opening movie would be a good explanation (just remove the part where he talks about Vault 13).
 
What, does no-one read my posts?
I'll repeat again: a Fallout movie following the game will only piss off a lot of people. Basically, the result will be that there will be one path chosen, and this never, ever works when the game is such an open-ended game.
 
if you guyz know so much about not pissing people off, why don't you write a script of your own here on this forum, and develop it throughout the whole thread, untill you get a complete or more or less complete script worth while of reading.
 
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