Stock said:
Maybe the Vault Dweller should join the BoS so he can, together with his squad of BoS recruits (somehow) save his village/vault?
For the love of god, NO!
The second i read that my mind instantly thought of Resident evil (the movie of course) When writing the script for such a movie one would have to very careful to avoid making it another failed zombie slaying flick!
As fun as it was slaying ghouls and mutants with the bozar in the game, it would contribute to movie if you had to follow the vaultdweller for two hours plow through a necropolis kinda setting with a very large gun!
The brotherhood of steel is overwhored anyways! Having the main character being either a private or a recruit in the film would just make it another zombie slaying gore movie (think doom and as above: resident evil)
No in my opinion the main character should be the vault dweller! Why? Because (remember this is still only in my opinion) the whole story of fallout more or less revolves around the vaults!
I would really like to back that up with reason but there is too many holes in my vocabulary for a proper explanation!
The plot of the movie could also very well revolve around the vaultdweller getting the waterchip, have him hitchhike a caravan to the hub... There he meets the water merchants wich in this case are evil gangsters, that for some reason beats him into a bloody pulp and dumps his corpse in the scorching desert! The mandatory good samaritan helps him (could be harrold or Ian for that matter)
He wakes up in Junktown severly wounded and dehydrated, meets Tandy, romantic sequence, possibly a sex scene at this point, afterwards this point he reveals his identity, to wich noone at Junktown was aware of Tandy and Ian included, Tandy is eager to follow the vaultdweller to the vault with her family as shes sees it as a safe haven, vaultdweller agrees and offers Ian to tag along B/c he safed his life...
Everybody grabs their gear and heads back to the hub to kick some ass, takes the waterchip and heads back to his vault,
(there is a moral issue here because many people will now die from polluted water with the waterchip now abscent... This adds to the whole dark, bleak and grimm feeling. This will also add the karma aspect from the game)
Some more fighting in the hub on their way out, maybe even a post-nuclear car chasing scene in the battered wastelands (maybe Tandy should bite the bullet at this point)
Back at the vault the vaultdweller hands over the water chip to the overseer! Ian is a this point severly wounded and a team of vault-medics takes him in to the sick bay and treats him... Of course he dies on the table (emotional scene here) Overseer comes back and asks the vaultdweller to follow him out into the vaults airlock where he betrays him like in the game, the vault dweller executes him (best death ever right here) and walks out!
There the finds a large group of very angry and very armed people that followed his tracks from the hub! Eager to tear him a new one, the vault dwellers only reply is: "You want your chip back? its right in there *points at the open Vault door*"
Close-up picture of the vault dwellers scarred face with muzzle flashes and gunshot sounds in the background, leaves the cave gunshots goes silent, he looks at the sun, reloads his sawed off, and starts walking into the desert, just like in the end movie from fallout 1. Music fades in (im thinking open theme from fallout 2 here)
Now that would be a great movie for me! Its completly inaccurate from the games but it revolves around the same story, is not another zombie slayer, it involves human emotions to the whole setting and i think people could in some bizzare way relate to the character!
Wow, i got carried away there!
Remember i only gave my two cents and i am open to constructive critique... Hell even a STFU N00b is acceptable!
They'd need to find a place for Sylvester Stallone as well.
