Bethesda’s Todd Howard has revealed that ‘nothing has clicked yet’ in regards to a possible movie adaptation of its multi-million selling Fallout video game franchise.
Speaking with GI.biz, Howard didn’t rule out a possible silver-screen debut for the post-apocalyptic action-RPG series, but made it clear that nothing has been set in stone as of yet.
“We’ve had a couple of in-roads, particularly with Fallout, which is a bit stickier than Elder Scrolls, but everybody’s kind of asked and I’ve taken a number of meetings over the years and nothing quite clicked,” said Howard.
“And that may happen. I don’t rule it out, but nothing really has clicked where – the games are popular enough and that’s their identity.”
He went on to say that fans may have felt different about Fallout 4 at the time of its announcement had a movie adaptation of the series seen the light of day.
“One of them [the film or the game] wouldn’t be quite right and you wouldn’t want that to be the game [should] the movie take it in another direction,” he explained. “I would say we have a pretty high bar as far as what we would want it to be if it ever happened and nothing’s quite clicked.
“Even little things like, ‘What does the vault suit look like?’ – every little thing we obsess over so the game is the thing where it really exists.”
A Fallout movie has been on the cards since 1998, back when Interplay owned the rights to the long-running franchise.
Read our review of Fallout 4 here.