Jonathan Nolan – Geekfeed https://www.geekfeed.com Entertainment News, Celebrities and Fandoms Wed, 24 Apr 2024 11:01:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.geekfeed.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-Geekfeed-Favicon-White-32x32.png Jonathan Nolan – Geekfeed https://www.geekfeed.com 32 32 Amazon Renews Fallout for a Second Season https://www.geekfeed.com/amazon-renews-fallout-for-a-second-season/ Wed, 24 Apr 2024 11:01:35 +0000 https://www.geekfeed.com/?p=82085 When it was announced that Amazon’ Fallout would have its whole season released on day one, a lot of fans thought that this was a sign that the network had no faith in the project, but lo and behold, Fallout is a critical hit, and it’s resulted in the massive uptick in sales for Fallout 4 the game.

Not to keep fans holding their breath for too long, Amazon has now announced that a second season of the series has been greenlit. Here’s the official post:

We don’t have an official synopsis for the second season yet, but the finale did leave us with enough breadcrumbs to find out exactly where we could be going.

WARNING: SPOILERS FOR FALLOUT SEASON ONE

For one, we get to see Lucy (Ella Purnell) and The Ghoul (Walton Goggins) teaming up to go after the Vault-Tec heads , with the Ghoul hoping that he can find his family. We also see that Maximus (Aaron Moten) has been marked a hero by the Brotherhood of Steel and we should expect him to have had a huge promotion by Season 2.

We also get to see in Vault 33 that Lucy’s brother Norm had found himself trapped in Vault 31 with the cryogenically frozen bodies of the Vault-Tec VIPs a.k.a. Bud’s Buds. Norm was given the choice to freeze himself or starve, but his decision is left for the audience to imagine until the next season.

As for Lucy’s dad, we also see him making his way to New Vegas, which Fallout players know also has its own factions of survivors.

If anything, the show has been lauded as a great introduction into the Wasteland, and we have a fantastic trio of leads. We don’t know how far Jonathan Nolan plans to have the show run, and after the cancellation of Westworld, I’m just happy he gets to play in a different sci-fi sandbox.

No release date has been announced for Fallout Season 2, but you can catch the fantastic first season now streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

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Aaron Paul Could Get Cast in Fallout Season 2 (If It Gets Greenlit) https://www.geekfeed.com/aaron-paul-could-get-cast-in-fallout-season-2/ Thu, 18 Apr 2024 09:52:10 +0000 https://www.geekfeed.com/?p=82035 It may not have looked like Amazon had a lot of faith in the Fallout adaptation when they released the whole season at once, but everyone has been gushing about the show online and is making comparisons with HBO’s The Last of Us.

It’s not clear if we’re going to get a second season yet, but director Jonathan Nolan already knows who he could bring onboard for Fallout Season 2. In an interview with IGN, Nolan was asked on which celebrities would want to be on the show, and Nolan confirms that Westworld star Aaron Paul might want in. He says:

Aaron Paul. Yeah, Aaron Paul was at the premiere, a human being I love so much. And he was very polite. He was very enthusiastic about the show. There was sort of an unspoken kind of like, “What’s up, man?” But we’ve been hearing from so many people, and it’s kind of fun to see the Fallout fans come out of the woodwork. People you’ve known a long time and you realize, “Oh, you’ve been playing this whole time.” So it’s been a lot of fun.

With the world being as vast as it is, there’s definitely plenty of room for Paul to show up, whether as a guest character or a main cast member. Notable celebrity cameos for the first season include Matt Berry, Fred Armisen, and Chris Parnell.

One cameo I would personally love to have in the series is Rick and Morty and Community creator Dan Harmon; who has played Fallout and is known to put showrunner cameos in his series like with Micthell Hurwitz (Arrested Development) and Vince Gilligan (Breaking Bad).

For now, fans are still waiting on the announcement of a second season, but a lot of people have been raving about the show—both longtime fans of the games and newcomers. Hopefully Paul will be free to have a substantial role in the future.

A second season of Fallout hasn’t been officially greenlit, but you can watch the whole first season now available on Amazon Prime Video.

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New Fallout Featurette Gives Us a Look at the Different Factions https://www.geekfeed.com/new-fallout-featurette-look-at-different-factions/ Fri, 05 Apr 2024 08:30:19 +0000 https://www.geekfeed.com/?p=81773 One of the most fascinating aspects of the Fallout universe is the different factions that roam around the Wasteland, and it looks like the upcoming series from Amazon Prime Video is going to be covering as much ground as they can.

Just in, they’ve dropped a new featurette which gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the world of the Vault-Dwellers and the Brotherhood of Steel. Check this out:

The three main characters of the series is said to be exploring the world of the three factions. We have Lucy (Ella Purnell) who is going to give us a look at what it was like to live in the Vaults; Maximus (Aaron Moten) who is a member of the Brotherhood of Steel; and The Ghoul (Walton Goggins) who looks to be a former Vault-Dweller who somehow found a way to survive in the apocalyptic wasteland.

There’s more to the story of Fallout if you’ve checked out the games, but we don’t know just how far the series is expected to go. If they plan to go on further than one season, then there’s definitely a lot more ground they can cover.

I’m just worried that with Amazon releasing the full season on day one, it means that they don’t have too much faith in the series. Hopefully that won’t be the case when it finally comes out, because I do think the world if very interesting and I’d like to see where Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy want to take it after their work on HBO’s Westworld.

All episodes of Fallout are set to drop on April 11 on Amazon Prime Video.

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Fallout Director: Pleasing Fans is a ‘Fool’s Errand’ https://www.geekfeed.com/fallout-director-pleasing-fans-is-a-fools-errand/ Mon, 18 Mar 2024 14:16:31 +0000 https://www.geekfeed.com/?p=81530 Jonathan Nolan may not be making a new season of Westworld any longer, but he is jumping over to Amazon Prime Video to work on the series adaptation of the hit game Fallout.

The show, set in an alternate dystopia heavily inspired by 50s Americana is set to premiere this April, and a lot of fans are curious about what Nolan and his team are going to bring to the series. As it turns out, pleasing fans is the last thing on Nolan’s mind.

“It’s kind of a fool’s errand to try to figure out how to make [other] people happy,” Nolan tells T3,  “You’ve got to make yourself happy. And I’ve made myself very happy with the show.”

Though Nolan does say that he isn’t trying to please the other fans of Fallout, he does confirm that he’s a huge fan of the franchise himself, having spent an entire year getting obsessed with Fallout 3. He shares, “It started, for me, with Fallout 3,  which devoured about a year of my life… I was an aspiring young writer at that point, and it almost derailed my entire career. It’s so ludicrously playable and fun… seriously, the games were just incredible.”

With Nolan’s approach, he says that he does believe that as long as he’s pleased with his own project, then other fans like him who’ve also enjoyed the games would also find something to love about his series.

If properties like Avatar: The Last Airbender on Netflix and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power have proven anything, it’s that IPs with huge established fandoms are always hard to please. So while we should expect some people to absolutely trash Fallout when it releases; we can be rest-assured there will be some that share Nolan’s taste that would think the show was a great adaptation.

Catch Fallout when it premieres on Amazon Prime Video on April 12.

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The Apocalypse is Not What it Used to be in Official Trailer for Amazon’s Fallout https://www.geekfeed.com/official-trailer-for-amazons-fallout-released/ Mon, 11 Mar 2024 16:23:16 +0000 https://www.geekfeed.com/?p=81420 HBO may have cancelled Westworld, but Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy are teaming up with rival streaming service Amazon Prime Video to deliver their adaptation of hit video game series Fallout.

The show is set to premiere this April, and we have a new trailer showcasing the main characters of Lucy (Ella Purnell), the Ghoul (Walton Goggins), and Maximus (Aaron Moten). Check this out:

Fans of the original Fallout games will immediately remember the song used in the trailer I Don’t Want to Set the World of Fire by The Ink Spots since it was also used to promote the release of Fallout 3.

We don’t know how much of the game’s influence is going to be in the series, but the show pretty much has the aesthetic down. The games really did build a very unique atmosphere with the soundtrack, so it would also make sense that the series would adapt the same thing.

Just like The Last of Us before it, fans are hoping that this series adaptation will bring even more into the Fallout fandom. Nolan and Joy have done some great work with previous series; so fingers crossed that they hit a home run with this one.

Here’s the official series description:

Based on one of the greatest video game series of all time, Fallout is the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. 200 years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind — and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird and highly violent universe waiting for them.

Fallout premieres on Amazon Prime Video on April 11.

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“It’s Like We’re Making Fallout 5”: Jonathan Nolan on Fallout Series’ Connection to the Games https://www.geekfeed.com/nolan-on-fallout-series-connection-to-games/ Mon, 11 Mar 2024 10:42:22 +0000 https://www.geekfeed.com/?p=81392 Jonathan Nolan has created a sci-fi cult classic with Westworld, but now he’s jumping over to Amazon Prime Video for an adaptation of the hit video game series, Fallout.

Like with every adaptation, fans are wondering how exactly this would be connected to the established canon of the games, and Nolan says that it’s essentially like writing the story for the next Fallout game. “Each of the [Fallout] games is a discrete story – different city, distinct protagonist – within the same mythology,” explains Nolan to TotalFilm, “Our series sits in relation to the games as the games sit in relation to each other. It’s almost like we’re Fallout 5. I don’t want to sound presumptuous, but it’s just a non-interactive version of it, right?”

With a world that has very dense lore and a huge landscape, it would be pretty easy to just make some new characters that just exist in that world. Albeit, it does seem that the story in the series is going to take some inspiration from the games, what with Ella Purnell’s character seemingly looking for her long lost dad (Kyle MacLachlan).

Then again, I’m just guessing that plot point based on the trailer.

With Nolan’s brother being infamous for adapting Batman on the big screen, he also explains how adapting Fallout is kind of like the same task. “Fallout, in my career, is closest to the work we did in adapting Batman, where there’s so much storytelling in the Batman universe that there is no canonical version of it, so you’re free to invent your own,” says Nolan.

We don’t know how Fallout will be received when it comes out, but so far I think everything looks fantastic. Fingers crossed they have another Last of Us on their hands (and not another Halo).

Watch out for Fallout when it premieres on Amazon Prime Video on April 12.

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Amazon’s Fallout Series Drops Retro Character Posters https://www.geekfeed.com/fallout-series-drops-retro-character-posters/ Wed, 06 Mar 2024 10:23:23 +0000 https://www.geekfeed.com/?p=81329 It’s going to be a while before we get the next season of HBO’s The Last of Us, but Amazon has teamed up with Westworld’s Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy for an adaptation of the hit game Fallout. The series is set to premiere this April, and we have a set of new character posters.

Check these out:

With the world of Fallout having some rich lore behind it, it does look like the show is going to be exploring characters that belong to three different factions from the game.

Lucy (Ella Purnell) is a vault-dweller who finds herself going outside into the Wasteland; Maximus (Aaron Moten) is a member of the Brotherhood of Steel and is in charge of restoring order to the post-apocalyptic world; and The Ghoul (Walton Goggins), who is a bounty hunter who used to belong to a vault based on the trailer.

You’ll also notice that the fictional product of Nuka Cola is prominent in all three posters. In the game Nuka Cola caps are considered a form of currency and are highly valuable.

We don’t know how the Fallout series will fare when it releases, but with a great world and some great producers behind it, we should expect something special when it comes to this adaptation.

Here’s the official description for the series:

In a future, post-apocalyptic Los Angeles brought about by nuclear decimation, citizens must live in underground bunkers to protect themselves from radiation, mutants and bandits.

Amazon’s Fallout series is set to premiere on April 12.

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Christopher Nolan Looks Back at the Dark Knight Line that ‘Haunts Him’ https://www.geekfeed.com/nolan-looks-back-at-the-dark-knight-line/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 06:07:34 +0000 https://www.geekfeed.com/?p=81236 Christopher Nolan may still be coming down from the hype surrounding Oppenheimer, but he has a lot of solid movies in his filmography that a lot of fans will definitely turn to when thinking about him—like The Dark Knight.

As it turns out, there is one line in The Dark Knight that seemingly haunts Nolan, and it’s the quote from Harvey Dent where he says, “You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”

Talking to Deadline, Nolan explains why this line has seemingly haunted him since it wasn’t him that even thought to put it in the movie. He says, “I’m plagued by a line from The Dark Knight, and I’m plagued by it because I didn’t write it… My brother [Jonathan] wrote it. It kills me, because it’s the line that most resonates. And at the time, I didn’t even understand it. He says, ‘You either die a hero or you live long enough to become the villain.'”

Here’s the scene from the movie:

“I read it in his draft, and I was like, ‘All right, I’ll keep it in there, but I don’t really know what it means. Is that really a thing?’”, said Nolan, “And then, over the years since that film’s come out, it just seems truer and truer. In this story, it’s absolutely that. Build them up, tear them down. It’s the way we treat people.”

For now, Nolan has finally become hands off of DC projects—especially after helping set the tone for the DCEU producing Man of Steel. We don’t know if he’ll ever jump into comic book films again, but some are convinced he would love a hand at a Bond movie down the line.

Nolan’s next project hasn’t been announced yet, but fans have their fingers crossed for an Albert Einstein-centric biopic spinoff of Oppenheimer.

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Fallout First Teaser Prepares Us for the World Outside of the Vault https://www.geekfeed.com/fallout-first-teaser-world-outside-of-the-vault/ Mon, 04 Dec 2023 16:32:25 +0000 https://www.geekfeed.com/?p=79961 Ella Purnell may have tried her best to get into a Vault in Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead, but she’s now going to be leaving one with Amazon’s adaptation of Fallout.

The series is set to come out early next year, and we have our first teaser for the show giving us a look at Vault-dwellers, the Brotherhood of Steel, and more. Watch this:

The official description reads:

Based on one of the greatest video game series of all time, Fallout is the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. 200 years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind — and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird and highly violent universe waiting for them.

Probably the biggest hook of this show besides the IP is that the series is being run by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, both whom are behind HBO’s fantastic sci-fi series Westworld. We don’t know how much of the Westworld vibe will make its way to Fallout, but it does seem like Fallout will have more room for whimsy and silly violence.

Besides Purnell, the show also stars the likes of Aaron Moten, Chris Parnell, Kyle MacLachlan, and Walton Goggins.

The world of the show is definitely interesting, and with the games being so popular, this could be Amazon’s attempt at getting a video game adaptation that receives The Last of Us-level of critical acclaim.

Fallout premieres on Amazon Prime Video on April 12, 2024.

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Westworld has been Cancelled by HBO https://www.geekfeed.com/westworld-has-been-cancelled-by-hbo/ Tue, 08 Nov 2022 15:38:11 +0000 https://www.geekfeed.com/?p=71936 A lot of fans thought that the last season of Westworld was actually pretty solid, and showrunners Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan have expressed their plan to wrap the whole story up with five seasons. Too bad though, because it looks like HBO isn’t interested in coming back to the realm of Delos.

THR reports that Westworld has been cancelled after four seasons. We don’t have any specifics as to why the series was cancelled, but it could have something to do with new WB head David Zaslav trying to build franchises with mass appeal. Though Westworld does have a lot of critical acclaim, it has never been able to gain the same kind of general audience appeal as Game of Thrones did.

The cancellation comes as a huge disappointment, but some can say that it had already been foreshadowed by the last season. Joy and Nolan’s Kilter Films did have to say this about the show not getting picked up for a final season:

Though the series did start out with a solid, contained story, future seasons of Westworld were rife with more existential themes and convoluted narratives. Though there are fans who find a lot of this storytelling enjoyable, I guess it wasn’t able to tickle the fancy of your general audience member. You think it’s because it didn’t have enough nudity to keep people satiated? House of the Dragon still managed to continue without any exposed breasts.

Personally, I have my fingers crossed that HBO greenlights a straight-to-streaming film like El Camino, but for now, I think we’ll just have freeze all motor functions.

Catch Westworld now available on HBO Max.

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Westworld 4 Gets New Trailer from HBO https://www.geekfeed.com/westworld-4-gets-new-trailer-from-hbo/ Mon, 27 Jun 2022 07:09:11 +0000 https://www.geekfeed.com/?p=66665 HBO has always prided itself with some very intellectual content—and none can get as analytical as Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s Westworld. The show is set to return with its fourth season, and we have a new trailer bringing us the return of new and old characters.

Check the trailer for Westworld‘s newest season out here: 

With the show not being shy with trying to be obscure about their plot, we have a preview that barely gives anything away about the story. It’s unclear if William has died in the series, but it looks like he’ll be having a taste of his own medicine this time around—being controlled by “Charlores”. We also see that characters like Bernard and Caleb have their own kind of arcs to follow; and its possible that Maeve has once again found herself in one of the parks.

I do have a question about the structure at 0:50 because it looks pretty much like the Millennium Clock that we see in HBO’s Watchmen series. I doubt it has any machinery that’s made to entrap a quantum being like Doctor Manhattan though.

We don’t know how long HBO plans to run Westworld, but I think the series has been pretty consistent so far when it comes to quality. Hopefully it will be able to complete its story—unlike another cool sci-fi property, Raised by Wolves, which HBO recently cancelled.

Westworld 4 premieres on HBO Max on June 26.

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Wetsworld Season 4 Trailer Teases ‘A Perfect Day’ https://www.geekfeed.com/wetsworld-season-4-trailer-teases-a-perfect-day/ Thu, 12 May 2022 09:09:15 +0000 https://www.geekfeed.com/?p=65187 Westworld is set to come back this June, and HBO has dropped a whole new trailer featuring some returning faces from the world’s most realistic theme park.

Watch the preview for Westworld Season 4:

We don’t really know what kind of story the fourth season of Westworld is going to bring, but we do know that the whole plot has moved out of the park and into the human world. Besides returning characters like Maeve and another version of Dolores; we also have Season 3’s new face Caleb, who has managed to break out of his pre-determined life after the destruction of Rehoboam.

The show admittedly looks pretty different from the first season, with the departure of actors like Sir Anthony Hopkins and James Marsden. Nevertheless, Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy have managed to stick true to the themes of control and humanity, and they’re using the science-fiction genre to the best of its abilities.

We don’t know where Westworld Season 4 could go, but I’m excited to see what Nolan and Joy have planned down the line. I’ll admit, I’m a tad confused as to who’s who anymore, but I’m pretty sure someone on Youtube has already meticulously explained everything in a non-dramatic, easy-to-digest way—just in time for the premiere.

It’s unclear how long Westworld has to go in terms of its story, but hopefully it doesn’t end up like the final season of Game of Thrones—which a lot of fans still can’t shut up about.

Westworld 4 premieres on HBO Max on June 26.

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