Amazon's Fallout adaptation "not retelling a game story"

Bethesda’s Todd Howard has shed more light on Amazon’s upcoming Fallout adaptation.

Speaking on Lex Fridman’s podcast, the show’s executive producer stated that the upcoming series is “not a retelling of a game story”. Rather, it will take place on a separate area of the world’s map.

“Let’s tell a story here that fits in the world that we have built, doesn’t break any of the rules, can reference things in the games, but isn’t a retelling of the games,” Howard elaborated.

“[It] exists in the same world but is its own unique thing, so it adds to it. While also, people who haven’t played the games, who can’t experience how crazy cool Fallout is, can watch the series.”

Howard says it is this fresh approach to the franchise from Amazon that ultimately won him over.

“When people wanted to make a movie they wanted to tell the story of Fallout 3 or tell the story of Fallout 4, and it was meh,” he explained. “For this it was, ‘hey let’s do something that exists within the world of Fallout.'”

There are still very few details pertaining to this upcoming adaptation, although leaks have revealed the inside of the series’ vault, some Vault insignia and a Vault Boy poster warning of the outside world.

Meanwhile, an official shot from the producers was released as part of the series’ anniversary in October.

This showed a mysterious figure silhouetted in the open entrance to Vault 33, while three other figures – all wearing their regulation blue Vault-Tec jumpsuits – looked on from within. Rather ominously, a pair of legs could also be seen on the floor in the distance.