The game-available on both PlayStation and Xbox-is set in a postapocalyptic world with players challenged to battle across the U.S.Īmazon Studios confirmed it would be working with Kilter Films and Bethesda Game Studios on the project, asking fans to “please stand by” for its release. This one has been in the making for a long time with Amazon Studios confirming back in the summer of 2020 that Fallout would be getting a series. The series will be a collaboration between Sony Pictures Television in association with PlayStation Productions and Amazon Studios, meaning a raft of PlayStation staff will also be involved, alongside colleagues at Santa Monica Studio. According to reports from Variety, Wheel of Time boss Rafe Judkins is set to be showrunner with writers Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby of Iron Man and Children of Men fame to also join as executive producers. Within days of the tweet confirming the series had been ordered it had gained near 90,000 likes from users. She claimed the FTC was trying to “protect” rival Sony-which produced the show-but added the commission has no cause for concern as Sony has an “unrivaled war chest of IP.” She finished: “In gaming, Sony is ‘the first of us’-and they will be just fine without the FTC’s protection.” Lulu Cheng Meservey, CCO at Activision Blizzard, took the opportunity to tweet about positive reception of the show to the Federal Trade Commission-which recently opposed Microsoft’s deal with Activision. It follows similar success seen by Henry Cavill’s The Witcher-also a popular game- which brought Netflix its biggest TV series opening when it debuted in late 2019 with 76 million member households watching it in its first four weeks.Īnd those with a stake in the game are pushing the success of The Last of Us as a reason to approve deals to increase the number of similar releases in future.

It’s been given a record-breaking 97% positive review score for a “fresh” release on Rotten Tomatoes.

after a pandemic has destroyed the world in hopes of saving humanity. The adaptation follows the story of Joel (played by Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey), who travel across the U.S.

Fallout by Lisa Henry