Game News Fallout: The Movie that Never Was

[Jason]

Tags: Fallout; Interplay

<p>Vault overseer Ausir brings you a treatment of the <a href="http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Ausir/Fallout_movie_treatment_revealed" target="_blank"><strong>aborted Fallout movie</strong></a>.</p>
<blockquote>A full movie script was never written, but writer Brent Friedman managed to find an early 15-page film treatment containing a full summary of the story on an old floppy, and was kind enough to send it to me. You can read the whole thing in this wiki article or download the PDF here. Here's a short excerpt:<br /><br />"Hero at prestigious job -- or so he’s told -- as Assistant Vault Supervisor, working on Supply Inventory. He inspects the G.E.C.K. -- The Garden of Eden Creation Kit. As part of his daily ritual as resident dreamer, he watches an old promo tape, which explains the G.E.C.K. is a miraculous, one-shot terra forming device to be used by the Vault Dwellers upon eventual emergence onto the surface. Our Hero can’t wait. Then he discovers some anomaly in the vault’s water supply. Makes presentation to Vault Supervisor (his father), who is pleased at how sharp our Hero is... but also knows how bored he is. Father’s already seen video tape of the tram incident – this is not the first time Hero has disturbed the peace. Establish internal strife between those who believe salvation/damnation is above. It’s become a generational thing, like the 60’s. Hero points out that all his generation’s complaints with pre-fab Vault life are irrelevant without water…"</blockquote>
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[Gragt]

Life in the Vault is about to change.

 

[bhlaab]

Brent V. Friedman is movie and video game writer and producer who wrote the treatment for a Fallout movie in 1998 for Interplay Films, a division of Interplay. Eventually the division was disbanded and the movie was canceled. The full treatment was later released at The Vault.

His film and TV writing credits include Necronomicon: Book of the Dead, Dark Skies, Star Trek: Enterprise and Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. He was also a writer on the game Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars.

I'm sure this would have been a fantastic movie

 

[Xor]

I just hope this doesn't give Bethesda any ideas.

 

[Azrael the cat]

Brent V. Friedman is movie and video game writer and producer who wrote the treatment for a Fallout movie in 1998 for Interplay Films, a division of Interplay. Eventually the division was disbanded and the movie was canceled. The full treatment was later released at The Vault.

His film and TV writing credits include Necronomicon: Book of the Dead, Dark Skies, Star Trek: Enterprise and Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. He was also a writer on the game Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars.

I'm sure this would have been a fantastic movie

And Hollywood's conception of videogame audiences is as people interested in deep and nuanced storylines, too.

Thank fuck this died - there's only one way that this kind of film goes, and it would end up embarassing the fuck out of all of us who liked Fallout.

 

[Gragt]

We could still protest that we never wanted this shit. Then again we already protested that we didn't want that Fallout 3.

 

[bhlaab]

Thank fuck this died - there's only one way that this kind of film goes, and it would end up embarassing the fuck out of all of us who liked Fallout.

Ironically, the “social revolution” the Overseer sought to keep suppressed in his idyllic vault now erupts as a desperate battle for survival. With dozens of Mutants on attack, most vault dwellers die, including Hero’s father, who dies in son’s arms, so proud of what he’s become. During the battle, the Overseer is destroyed by the Master, who recognizes him as the creator of these vaults. The one who started WWIII 50 years ago.

 

[Mister Arkham]

I actually did some strange little comedy novella a few years ago about a bunch of Hollywood types, and one of the characters was trying to write a Fallout movie and the studio kept giving him revisions that were turning it into something surprisingly similar to this treatment...

As a '90s action movie it doesn't really sound too bad. It's silly and too cutesy with its gags and the setting is ridiculous in the same way as Escape from LA, but there is at least a story that is present from beginning to end and isn't TOO full of holes.

It would make an absolutely fucking terrible Fallout story though. I mean, shit, talk about missing the point.

 

[Suchy]

It's just a matter of time. Robert Pattison and Miley Cyrus will happen.

 

[Jackalope]

Seeing how games like Mortal Kombat and Dragon Age have recently jumped on the Webisode bandwagon, I wouldn't be surprised if we soon see Bethesda joining this new crappy trend. After all, it's pretty easy to find a desert, a couple of prop guns and a blue jumpsuit.