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‘Last of Us,’ ‘Fallout’ Creators Talk Future of Prestige TV Adaptations and Impact on Gaming Biz Ahead of BAFTA Games Awards: ‘The Size of These Things Requires Time’
Ahead of the BAFTA Games Awards, 'Last of Us' and 'Fallout' creators discuss the future of the gaming biz and prestige TV adaptations.
“I think what people have seen in Hollywood is that video game adaptations, if done right, can actually be very popular, and they scale really well,” PlayStation Productions chief Asad Qizilbash told Variety. How you adapt it matters too, as Qizilbash notes “Horizon” was found to be a better idea as a film than a TV series when PlayStation was working with Netflix and “it just wasn’t creatively going how we wanted to.” The head of Microsoft’s Bethesda Game Studios and “Fallout” producer Todd Howard echoes Qizilbash’s sentiment when it came to the choice to go with Jonathan Nolan’s idea for a TV series over a “Fallout” movie. Mazin thinks one of the biggest lessons to be learned is how to manage development pipelines across all mediums, as expectations grow with each passing year for the quality of games, TV shows and movies.
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