Fallout studio says creator Todd Howard didn’t want “the guy who makes video game movies” to make the Prime Video TV show: “We want the best director, the best showrunner possible”

Besthesda senior dev Emil Pagliarulo says the team behind Fallout wanted the best creatives possible when developing Prime Video’s TV adaptation of the hit video game franchise – and they definitely made the right call.

“Hollywood, at the time, they wanted to throw the ‘video game directors’ at us,” Pagliarulo told PC Gamer. “We don’t want the guy who makes video game movies. We want the best director, the best showrunner possible. And it wasn’t until Jonathan Nolan and his company had their pitch. This is the guy who wrote the Batman movies. This is the guy who made Westworld. This is the guy we want. A lot of it was waiting to find the right partner, and not just doing it because you could.”