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A couple of years after Westworld, director-screenwriter Jonathan Nolan is back with another sci-fi dystopian show, Fallout, based on the popular video game franchise..
In an exclusive interview, Jonathan revealed that Fallout took him back to the Batman days, where he felt like the kid lost in a candy store.er..
It has a different ruleset than anything I'd played before and I hope the audience feels the same for anything they've watched before," said Jonathan. . Fallout may borrow its aesthetic from the retro-futuristic and atompunk sci-fi shows of yore, its genre-bending screenplay lends it a breath of fresh cinematic air..
The sense of weird optimism at the heart of the show is probably what makes it distinct from other stories that depict the relationship between nuclear technology and apocalyptic risks, like Christopher Nolan's Oscar-winning film from last year, Oppenheimer. Jonathan and Christopher have co-written films like Memento, The Prestige, The Dark Knight franchise, and Interstellar..
It also struck me when I saw the poster we made for South by Southwest, where Lucy is drinking from the Nuka Cola bottle, said Jonathan, underlining how Fallout is a marriage of Oppenheimer and its box-office rival, Greta Gerwig's satire, Barbie...
