CANNES, April 9 — Video games are likely to be Hollywood's biggest source of story inspiration, producer and director Jonathan Nolan said Monday, days before his film adaptation of the post-apocalyptic role-playing game. he said. fall out Set to streaming.
In the distribution from Thursday, fall out Two hundred years after a nuclear war, the descendants of those who hid in bomb shelters are forced to return to an irradiated surface plagued by violence, anarchy, and mutants.
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The series was developed by Nolan and his wife Lisa Joy, who together created the critically acclaimed series. westworld It won the Critics' Choice Award for Most Exciting New Series in 2016.
Nolan, younger brother of biopic Christopher Nolan oppenheimer This year's Oscar hit, he also directed the first three episodes of fall out.
This series has been airing for over a year the last of usanother series inspired by post-apocalyptic video games.
Acclaimed by both the public and critics, the last of usThis work by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann proved that a successful transition from console to live-action was possible.
Nolan told reporters at the Cannes Film Festival: “The fact that that show came out and it was so great and it was so well received really helped because it took a lot of pressure off of me.” Ta. fall out Excluded from competition.
Adapting video games to the big or small screen is nothing new, but it's often disappointing. Super mario bros Movie released in 1993 resident evil It will be made into a series on Netflix in 2022.
“Lifelong Gamer”
But that seems to be changing, thanks to directors and producers who grew up playing video games.
“I’ve been a gamer my whole life,” said Nolan, who remembers being fascinated by games. fallout 3 When it was released 16 years ago.
“It was over the last few years that I realized that video game storytelling was becoming in many ways more ambitious, more avant-garde, more punk rock than film or television,” he said. Ta.
Nolan cited video games such as Half-Life, BioShock, and Portal as good examples of video games “full of breathtaking moments,” some of which were directed by directors from movies or He said he hopes to move on to television.
“In the next few years, we're going to see a lot more talk[on TV and movies]about games as a genre. Games are not a genre,” Nolan said.
apocalyptic tone
“Video games are, in many ways, a medium for telling stories, and if you look at the numbers, the number of people playing them, the size of the industry, they're going to be the biggest medium for telling stories for some time,” he added. .
According to market data firm Spherical Insights, the global video game market was valued at US$254 billion in 2022 and is expected to exceed US$925 billion by 2032.
Nolan believes video games are likely to become Hollywood's biggest source of inspiration in the future.
“You know we're very timid in Hollywood, we're conservative,” he said.
“Wait and see if something works.”
Hollywood has been discovering comics for years, including Nolan, who co-wrote the Batman movies with his brother. dark Knight and dark knight rising.
meanwhile the last of us Closely based on the game, fall outThe film, which will be shown on Amazon Prime, introduces new characters and a new story.
“The challenge was to find a story that got to the heart of the game, which for me was obviously the post-apocalyptic setting, but most importantly the tone,” Nolan said.
I've “never come across anything quite like it. It's equal parts drama, emotion, but also dark comedy, satire, and politics,” he added.
nolan said fall out Creator Todd Howard was involved in every step of production, but insisted that the show was not intended to be fan service.
“I don't think you can make movies or shows for the fans. I think you can make them as fans,” he said. —AFP
