Fallout: The Movie and TV Show?

Anybody who knows me knows that I love me a good old fashion post-apocalyptic yarn. I don’t even need it to be fancy schmancy, or filled with mythos or pathos or any other -os. I just need some good, clean, post-apocalyptic, wandering the wastelands fun. That sounds a lot like “Fallout” the game, which, according to the blokes over at Joystiq.com, may be headed to the big screen, as well as a TV series.

Says the gaming site:

Spotted on the US Patent and Trademark Office website recently were two suspicious trademarks filed by Bethesda Softworks, the folks behind the Elder Scrolls series and, most recently, Fallout 3. First, a trademark staking claim on the Fallout name for “entertainment services in the nature of an on-going television program,” hinting pretty heavily at the possibility of a Fallout-themed … television program. Another filing secures the trademark for “motion picture films about a post-nuclear apocalyptic world.” We imagine you get the gist of that one, eh?

I’ve played a lot of games, but I’ve never played “Fallout”. So what’s it all about? Wikipedia to the rescue:

Fallout is a computer role-playing game produced by Tim Cain, developed by Black Isle Studios (though before the studio was named “Black Isle”) and published by Interplay in 1997. The game has a post-apocalyptic setting in the late 22nd century, though its story and artwork are heavily influenced by the post-World War II nuclear paranoia of the 1950s.

Critically acclaimed, the game inspired a number of sequels and spin-off games, known collectively as the Fallout series.

Well the game itself doesn’t sound like a whole lot of fun, at least not the type of game I usually play (FYI: I like to run’em and gun’em, I’m superficial that way), but a movie based on it would be all kinds of good times. The whole “50’s-era end of the world paranoia” theme would also be visually very novel.

Below: Looks like self-defense to me.