Australian Filmmaker Wade K. Savage is making a film based on the Fallout: New Vegas universe, Fallout: Lanius. Savage and his team are seeking $10,000 to fund their take on the title. They’ve launched a campaign on indiegogo.com, and so far they have about $1,000. If any video game would work well as an adaptation, it would be Fallout. Most video game movies in the 90’s were awful, but you can’t do much when your sources are fighting games or an Italian stereotype. It really is a sign of the improvements made in games when many games would work well as adaptations. Bioshock, Half Life, and Portal would make amazing films. I wonder if they could adapt Minecraft. It would be a surreal movie, where half of the time the lead would be chopping down trees and punching pigs, while the other half would be spent with the character in a dirt hole while spiders, zombies, and skeletons crawl around. I don’t even want to think about what a creeper would look like in the real world.
If people support Fallout: Lanius on Indiegogo, they’ll get perks that range from having their name in the credits, to a special edition of the film on DVD, to a photo signed by Mitch Lewis, the voice actor for the character. The film will not be made for profit, as Savage said, “We don’t just want to make a not for profit fan film, we want to make a small piece of cinema in the Fallout Universe…”
The film will follow the story of Legate Lanius from Fallout: New Vegas, and will apparently recount “how a single man brings ruin to his people due to his lust for bloodshed and victory.” Why does that sound so familiar?
