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DoctorFinger
04-20-2009, 06:30 AM
A series of legal filings appear to show that Bethesda is on the verge of an all out media blitz with Fallout.

Dwell on it (http://dwellonit.blogspot.com/2009/04/fallout-television-show.html) (a Second Life blog of all things) has dug up a pair of new trademark filings by Bethesda that indicate that the publisher sees big things for the Fallout property on the screen, both silver and small. On 5 February 2009, Bethesda Softworks LLC applied for the Fallout trademark for "Entertainment services in the nature of an on-going television program" (s/n 77663853) and for "motion picture films about a post-nuclear apocalyptic world" (s/n 77663852). This doesn't mean a movie set in Vault 17, or a Super Mutant reality show, are imminent. But it does mean that Bethesda is looking to move the property onto the screen in some way, shape or form.

Just last week Bethesda (http://www.colonyofgamers.com/cogforums/showthread.php?t=7543) moved to block original IP owner Interplay's nascent Fallout MMO, citing failure to meet contractual milestones before a deadline.

Sources - Dwell on it (http://dwellonit.blogspot.com/2009/04/fallout-television-show.html); Shacknews (http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/58225).
Khrymsyn
04-20-2009, 06:43 AM
The No Mutants Allowed website must be overflowing in doom, gloom, and hate over this.
Telefrog
04-20-2009, 06:47 AM
As far as I know, this doesn't mean they're actively looking to do anything in those venues. This sort of IP protection goes on all the time. Blizzard registered a trademark for Diablo long ago and defended it from a movie in the works about a drug lord that shared the same working title.
menage
04-20-2009, 06:58 AM
I don't think Fallout would translate very well to a movie, but a series could be interesting. Seeing as how the game has loads of different storylines and encounters. Could be awesome.
Raen
04-20-2009, 07:00 AM
I don't think Fallout would translate very well to a movie, but a series could be interesting. Seeing as how the game has loads of different storylines and encounters. Could be awesome.

Oh god no. The only program I can think with that kind of travelling for some ultimate goal and helping people along the way? Pokémon.
menage
04-20-2009, 07:15 AM
Oh god no. The only program I can think with that kind of travelling for some ultimate goal and helping people along the way? Pokémon.

Hahaha, only with shooting people in the head and collecting their fingers. Gotta catch em all.
Savok
04-20-2009, 07:18 AM
Oh god no. The only program I can think with that kind of travelling for some ultimate goal and helping people along the way? Pokémon.
Really, I think of Supernatural.
Hotcod
04-20-2009, 07:57 AM
New Fallout out game, Fallout New Vegas, not a squeal just another game in the universe that will be an RPG and is NOT the game Todd Howard is working on.
Worldcrafter
04-20-2009, 08:52 AM
As far as I know, this doesn't mean they're actively looking to do anything in those venues. This sort of IP protection goes on all the time. Blizzard registered a trademark for Diablo long ago and defended it from a movie in the works about a drug lord that shared the same working title.
Agreed. This sounds like Bethesda securing all the rights to the Fallout name. Maybe a reaction to the fallout with Interplay over the MMO rights?
Wasson_
04-20-2009, 04:18 PM
Fallout Movie = Mad Max with lasers instead of cars.
Raen
04-20-2009, 04:40 PM
Really, I think of Supernatural.

Haven't seen Supernatural. Just instantly makes me think of stuff like Pokémon and Beyblade.
Savok
04-20-2009, 11:46 PM
Haven't seen Supernatural. Just instantly makes me think of stuff like Pokémon and Beyblade.
*smack*

Go rent the first season.