Fallout 3 heading for Hollywood?
Videogame firm files film patent…
BY Apr 21st 2009 10:10AMFILED UNDER: Movie news
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Post-apocalyptic shooter Fallout 3 is heading to the big screen if the company that made it, Bethesda Software, gets its own way.
Because the company have officially filed a patent to the rights for a film version, securing the trademark for a series of "motion picture films about a post-nuclear apocalyptic world."
Fallout 3 would certainly make a decent flick – the plot’s a bit more meaty than, say, Streetfighter – but we’ve seen Hollywood mess up these things before, Resident Evil, anyone? 
Also, this is about as early in the process as its possible to get and literally 6 billion things could go wrong before we get to a stage where we can buy a ticket to see a Fallout movie.
So, what we’re saying is, we won’t start holding our breath just yet, but we’ll be keeping an technologically enhanced eye on this one.
[Source: Firstshowing]
Would a Fallout movie be worth leaving a nuclear bunker to see? Tell us below!
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1: zangtar says
I have been a follower of the fallout game since fallout 1 and am getting through Fallout 3 at the moment. Every time I play it I keep thinking it would make a great movie, but I do agree that keeping the spirit of the game would be difficult. Where fallout 3 succeeds the most of its predecessors is that you are completely wrapped up in the silence of the Capital wasteland and that there is danger around every corner. Its a difficult one to mess up because of the vast amount of work that has already gone into the creation of the game, so I do hope for all fans of the game that the movie version is done properly.
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2: Aeghast says
there are so many things going on Fallout 3.. they certainly got a lot of stuff to choose from
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3: AYBGerrardo says
I'm a Vault-dweller myself, but I don't think it would make a good film. Namely because there's a real lack of original ideas. The game is a pastiche of loads of films and books, and that's a strength in video games but not in film. Example: Equilibrium.
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