Writer-director Jonathan Nolan, who is exploring dystopia again after the hit show ‘Westworld’, says ‘Fallout’ is a story about the end of the world, but it is also about the beginning of many new things.
Nolan has been a co-writer on several of his brother, filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s films, such as “The Prestige”, “The Dark Knight” trilogy, “Interstellar” and “Memento”.
The writer-director has made his mark in television with critically acclaimed, high-concept sci-fi shows like “Person of Interest,” “Westworld” and now “Fallout,” an adaptation of a popular video game series . Same name. He has created the new show with wife and creative partner Lisa Joy.
When asked why he is so interested in dystopian stories, Nolan said it may be because humans are designed to think about how bad things can get.
“It scratches the Darwinian itch for most people… One of the things that was so exciting to me about ‘Fallout’ is that it’s about the end of the world, but it’s also the beginning of many new worlds.” is also about,” Nolan, who was recently in Mumbai to promote the series, told PTI in an interview.
The writer-producers have been fans of the game series, which is set in a post-apocalyptic world where players navigate through a wasteland and encounter mutated creatures and other survivors.
He believes that despite its dystopian setting, there is an unexpected thread of optimism that runs through the game and his show.
“Where what you are seeing is not the ruins of one world, you are seeing the foundations of another world, of a new world, of a new culture emerging from it…
“We end the world all the time. Humans are also very good at recreating the world. And I think that impulse, that idea, was becoming an inspiration for me,” he said.
Both “Westworld,” which ran for four seasons on HBO, and “Fallout” share a similarity in the world in that they are set in a place structured like Western films, but a place where machines and technology play a major role.
Westerns, popular for their cowboys and outlaw stories, began to define the genre of films set in the American Old West.
Nolan said he grew up watching a lot of Western films, drawing his fascination from his wife Joy, who was also a co-creator of ‘Westworld’.
“It creates a moral field, but also a wide open space in which the characters have no other authority to rely on. They have to make their own moral decisions, and that’s exactly how the ‘Fallout’ games work.” Structure is done.
“As a player, you’re given different options. You can play as a good guy, a white hat in ‘Westworld’ parlance, or a more cowardly guy like a black hat or somewhere else. I think it’s this fantasy that being alone and making decisions is a constant thing when it comes to technology,” he adds.
Nolan, who directed three of the eight episodes of the new show, said he has always been fascinated by technology and human ingenuity.
“There is a lot of political commentary about the extent to which we trust these devices to save us. When the truth is that the technology is at most morally neutral.
“I can’t help but remain a technological optimist. I think all this ingenuity, hopefully, at the end of the day, will help us more than it will hurt us. But if you look at history, it’s a Definitely a vague proposal.” Nolan said.
“Fallout,” starring Ella Purnell, Walton Goggins, Aaron Moten, Kyle MacLachlan, Sarita Chaudhary, Michael Emerson and Moises Arias, will begin streaming on Prime Video on April 1.
The show is based on an alternate history of Earth where advances in nuclear technology after World War II led to the rise of a retrofuturistic society followed by a resource war. Survivors took refuge in fallout bunkers, known as Vaults, built to preserve humanity in the event of a nuclear annihilation.
It focuses on Lucy, an idealistic young woman who leaves her home in the Vault to venture into the hellish landscape left by her ancestors.
Nolan was introduced to the “Fallout” games in the late 2000s when he took a break from “The Dark Knight” movies, which focused on the iconic DC superhero Batman.
“I didn’t know anything about the games other than that I was told they were cool and weird. And I remember my experience playing ‘Fallout 3’ for the first time, and I hope that the audience Our series, which will be an experience to watch, maintains a constant sense of surprise with its storytelling. But there is also a sense of surprise with the tone.”
For Nolan, “Fallout” presented the perfect opportunity for adaptation and he wants other installments of the game to also be adapted for the screen.
“We were able to tell an original story within that mythos and that’s the best thing for me. As a fan of the games, it would be fun to see an adaptation of ‘Fallout 3,’ ‘New Vegas’ or ‘Fallout 4.’ ”
The British-American writer was recently in India to promote the show with lead star Purnell.
He revealed that he had visited the country several years ago when he was 20 years old.
“This is long overdue for me. I first came when I was in my twenties, just to experience this place. I came to Delhi in the middle of summer and it was very hot and humid. And I came alone and had a good experience, but a brief one,” he added.
“Fallout” is helmed by Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner. The show is produced by Amazon MGM Studios and Kilter Films in association with Bethesda Game Studios and Bethesda Softworks.
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