The director and screenwriter Jonathan Nolan — brother of Christopher Nolan, who directed the Oscar-winning “Oppenheimer” — talked about his new post-apocalyptic series “Fallout” and said that the program has a touch of “Barbenheimer” .
With premiere scheduled for April 11th on Prime Video the new production is based on the video game of the same name, which takes place 200 years after the apocalypse.
The two Nolan brothers have already worked together as co-writers on several productions, such as “Amnesia”, “Interstellar” and “Batman: The Dark Knight”.
In an interview with Hindustan Timeswhen asked if he thinks “Fallout” deals with similar themes to “Oppenheimer”, Jonathan agreed, but said the tone is different.
“It certainly plays in a similar space, but with a very different tone. Last year I joked with my brother that he could have done 'Barbenheimer the Series'. Because it has a little bit of each of those things,” he explained.
For Jonathan, the humor present in “Fallout” makes the series more fun than dark or pessimistic, even in the post-apocalypse.
“We were filming in the middle of the pandemic with masks on, so it was nice to be in touch with this lighter side. The shoot was strangely upbeat and I hope the show conveyed that too,” she added.
The director and screenwriter also declared himself a fan of the video game that inspires the adaptation: “I hope that the audience experiences in this program what I felt while playing: you never know what will happen next, what is around the corner , what the game will do. It has a ruleset unlike anything I've played before and I hope audiences feel the same about anything they've watched before.”
Watch the trailer for “Fallout”
Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy are the executive producers of the series made by Kilter Films, which stars Ella Purnell, Walton Goggins and Aaron Moten.
The story portrays the world situated two hundred years after the apocalypse. In it, people who live in luxury radioactive shelters return to the landscape that humanity left devastated and explore a complex, happy, strange and violent universe.
The series premieres on Prime Video on April 11.
Source: CNN Brasil
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