The Fallout vein is definitely inexhaustible for Prime Video. The Amazon platform has obviously found the right formula with the television adaptation of Bethesda’s post-apocalyptic saga. The first season surprised with its solidity, the second confirms the public’s interest, and a third seems inevitable.
Fallout invites itself into reality TV
But Prime Video would not be content with chaining the seasons. According to information from specialist journalist Jeff Sneider, a new project is in development, this time alongside the main series. No more scripted stories in the wastelands: make way for a reality TV show directly inspired by Fallout Shelter.
Originally released on mobile before arriving on consoles and as a board game, Fallout Shelter offers a lighter approach to the universe. The player plays a supervisor responsible for managing an atomic shelter: construction of rooms, management of resources, welcoming new inhabitants, and protection against external threats. A simple, effective, and surprisingly addictive formula.
It is precisely this logic of management under pressure that Prime Video would seek to transpose to the screen. The program would feature candidates playing supervisors, faced with a series of strategic choices to ensure the survival, and prosperity, of their Vault.
According to initial indiscretions, the show could take place in one or more Vaults reconstituted for the occasion. Filming would not begin until next year, but the project would already be well supervised creatively. Production would in fact be handled by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy via Kilter Films, in close collaboration with the Bethesda studio. In other words, the same names behind the series Fallout.
On paper, the idea might make you smile. Adapting a management game into a reality TV show is not easy. But Fallout Shelter is already based on very understandable mechanics: it is indeed necessary to arbitrate between comfort and productivity, avoid shortages, manage crises when everything accumulates a little too quickly. So many elements which can easily turn into tests, into tensions between candidates, and into quite effective moments of television.
Prime Video would also only follow a major trend. Netflix showed with Squid Game: The Challenge that a fictional universe could give birth to an independent television program, without necessarily treading on the toes of the original series. It obviously remains to be seen how the rules, interactions between candidates and victory conditions will be defined. Who will win, and on what criteria?
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