“Fallout: Vault 33,” the Emmy-nominated promotional site for Prime Video ‘s post-apocalyptic “Fallout” series, reintroduces a sense of interactivity that got lost in the adaptation of the popular video game. For director Jonathan Nolan , who collaborated with showrunners Graham Wagner and Robertson-Dworet, it was important to reinforce the game. “Usually when you’re adapting something, you’re adding to it: the images, the actors, the score, all the wonderful things that a book can’t do,” Nolan told IndieWire.
“But when you’re adapting a game to a series, you’re taking away that interactivity. So the opportunity with our partners at Amazon — and the rest of the people that helped us build on these experiences [including Bethesda Game Studios, Addison Interactive, AKQA, BOND] — was to restore some of that interactivity.” One of the aspects that Nolan enjoyed most about the game, where people live in fallout bunkers called Vaults following the nuclear war of 2077, was the ability “to walk through these vast environments and pick up any rock and look underneath it.
“And that feeling of a fully developed, beautifully realized world was why we wanted to adapt these games in the first place,” added Nolan, who worked with supervising producer Noreen O’Toole. “And so some of the most fun we had in building the world of the show was here. “I also think this [interactive experience] is the first time that we were introducing a lot of new fans .