14 DAY TRIAL // A fan site linked to the Fallout series has managed to dig up a potential plan for a movie linked to the gaming franchise, written back in 1998, showing how the complex post-apocalypse universe of the game could be translated to the movie screen.
After the successful launch of the first Fallout game, Interplay decided to expand into other media and created a new division called Interplay Films.
This movie treatment was written in 1998, but it never moved beyond the production phase, with Interplay Films itself closed down in 2000.
Here's a small part of the Fallout movie concept: “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 terraforming 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.”
Those who are interested can see the full movie treatment in this PDF document.
The right to develop Fallout-based video games now lies with Bethesda and both Fallout 3 and its spin-off New Vegas have been pretty successful, introducing the universe to a new generation of gamers that might have been familiar with the first two games in the series, those created by Interplay.
Bethesda is also fighting a court battle with Interplay in regard to the rights to create an MMO based on Fallout.
The company might be interested in creating other media products based on Fallout, but it's highly unlikely that they pick up the old film idea and run with it.
Any modern Fallout movie will probably include well-known elements like the Brotherhood of Steel, ghouls and maybe even New Vegas as a setting.