Video games top source for TV inspiration says Jonathan Nolan

Cannes, France: Video games are likely to become the top source of story inspiration for Hollywood, producer and director Jonathan Nolan said Monday,...

Cannes, France: Video games are likely to become the top source of story inspiration for Hollywood, producer and director Jonathan Nolan said Monday, days before his adaption of the post-apocalyptic role-playing game "Fallout" is set to stream.

Streaming from Thursday, "Fallout" takes place 200 years after a nuclear war when the descendants of people who hid in bomb shelters are forced to return to the irradiated surface beset by violence, anarchy and mutants.

The series was developed by Nolan and his wife Lisa Joy who together produced the acclaimed series "Westworld" which won the Critics' Choice award for most exciting new series in 2016.

Nolan, the brother of Christopher Nolan whose biopic "Oppenheimer" was the hit of this year's Oscars, also directs the first three episodes of "Fallout".

The series is airing a little more than one year after "The Last of Us", another series inspired by a post-apocalyptic video game.