‘Fallout’ Artisans on Adapting the Video Game for TV and Collaborating With Executive Producer Jonathan Nolan
variety.comJazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Prior to joining Prime Video’s Emmy-nominated series “Fallout,” few of the artisans were gamers and had even played the hit video game.
Only makeup artist Michael Harvey had in-depth knowledge having played it for over 20 years. Based on the video game franchise of the same name, the series is set 200 years after the apocalypse with people living in subterranean communities known as Vaults.
After a nuclear disaster, a young woman named Lucy (Ella Purnell) begins venturing out into the devastated landscape to find her father.
Along the way, she encounters Walton Goggins’ The Ghoul. Thanks to executive producer Jonathan Nolan’s writing and research, the creatives didn’t need to spend hours getting familiar with the video game to adapt it to their work successfully.
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