{"id":11144,"date":"2026-06-29T14:33:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T11:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/?p=11144"},"modified":"2026-06-29T17:54:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T14:24:43","slug":"fallout-new-vegas-director-says-amazons-fallout-show-is-one-of-the-best-adaptations-of-a-video-game-franchise-and-no-he-isnt-bothered-by-dinky-facing-the-wrong-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/fallout-new-vegas-director-says-amazons-fallout-show-is-one-of-the-best-adaptations-of-a-video-game-franchise-and-no-he-isnt-bothered-by-dinky-facing-the-wrong-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Fallout: New Vegas Director Says Amazon&#8217;s Fallout Show Is &#8216;One of the Best Adaptations of a Video Game Franchise&#8217; \u2014 and No, He Isn&#8217;t Bothered by Dinky Facing the Wrong Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer has given Amazon\u2019s Fallout show the thumbs up, saying it\u2019s one of the best video game adaptations ever seen on film or television.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Fallout Season 2 is set in New Vegas, which was the setting and title of Obsidian\u2019s much-loved 2010 entry, Fallout: New Vegas. Sawyer was director and designer on that game, so he\u2019s a great person to ask about Amazon\u2019s adaptation. And that\u2019s exactly what The 41st Precinct did in a new video interview about Sawyer\u2019s career.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Responding, Sawyer was very enthusiastic, even though he has a few criticisms that he\u2019s not even sure he would classify as actual criticisms.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">\u201cI think it&#8217;s an amazing adaptation,\u201d Sawyer began. \u201cLike, honestly. I know that the bar is not always very high for TV or film adaptations of video games, but I think it&#8217;s one of the best that I&#8217;ve seen, certainly.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">\u201cI guess I would say that there are sort of critiques or like personal things where I would say, \u2018I don&#8217;t know if I would have taken the plot in that direction,\u2019 or, \u2018I don&#8217;t know if I would have done that with that character,\u2019 but that&#8217;s like, any writer is going to look at something and be like, \u2018I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;d do that.\u2019 I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re like real criticisms.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">\u201cAs far as how Mr. House was handled \u2014 I didn&#8217;t write Mr. House. I didn&#8217;t create Mr. House. That was [lead writer] John Gonzalez to be clear \u2014 I love Justin Theroux and I just love him in everything, and I think he was a great Mr. House, personally. I am very interested to see where it goes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span data-cy=\"slideshow-view-trigger\"><\/p>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-preview\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 slideshow-preview\">\n<h3 class=\"title5 jsx-62124236 jsx-1085005187\" data-cy=\"slideshow-preview-title\">Fallout Season 2, Episode 1 Video Game Details &#8211; Locations<\/h3>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-images-container\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 images-container\"><button type=\"button\" data-cy=\"hero-image\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 hero-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"5. In fact, the whole neighborhood that the salesman is roaming around is similar to the one seen at the beginning of Fallout 4. Even a military Vertibird can be seen flying over the street, exactly like it does in the 2015 game.\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/fallout-new-vegas-director-says-amazons-fallout-show-is-one-of-the-best-adaptations-of-a-video-game-franchise-and-no-he-isnt-bothered-by-dinky-facing-the-wrong-way.gif\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><span class=\"button-text jsx-729543028 button button--primary jsx-3381835873 jsx-4266531355 row-pagination-button next contained centered round large\" data-cy=\"paginate next\" title=\"Open Slideshow\"><span class=\"ign-icon right-chevron jsx-2750866048 jsx-2919720488\" role=\"presentation\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-cy=\"right-chevron\"><\/span><\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Sawyer went on to touch on complaints some Fallout fans had with the accuracy of the show as it relates to the video games, although he insisted Amazon did a great job of it.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">\u201cI did get a chance to actually see the set in Season 2,\u201d he revealed. \u201cI got to see the vault and I got to see Freeside [a district of New Vegas in the Mojave Wasteland]. They look like the game. They look really, really close. I mean, the layout is not exactly the same. The same thing with Novac.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">At that point, Sawyer brought up complaints from some fans about the Dinky the T-Rex statue in the town of Novac. In Fallout: New Vegas, Dinky faces away from the town to act as a sniper perch. In the Fallout show, however, Amazon had it rotated 180 degrees to face towards the motel. While this change was made so protagonist Lucy could appear as a sniper and shoot enemies outside the motel in Season 2, Episode 1, some Fallout fans didn\u2019t like that Dinky was, as they put it, facing the wrong way.<\/p>\n<p><span data-cy=\"slideshow-view-trigger\"><\/p>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-preview\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 slideshow-preview\">\n<h3 class=\"title5 jsx-62124236 jsx-1085005187\" data-cy=\"slideshow-preview-title\">Fallout Season 2, Episode 1 Video Game Details &#8211; Items and Iconography<\/h3>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-images-container\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 images-container\"><button type=\"button\" data-cy=\"hero-image\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 hero-image\">&lt;img alt=&quot;11. A nice little detail is the shield and skull decoration seen in Novac. This is a reference to the Great Khans ending slide from the first Fallout, which you may have seen based on the choices you\u2019d made in that original Interplay Productions game.<\/p>\n<p>12. And of course, it wouldn\u2019t be Fallout with Nuka Cola. A vending machine for the wasteland\u2019s favourite carbonated drink can be seen in Novac by the motel.&#8221; decoding=&#8221;async&#8221; class=&#8221;progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity&#8221; loading=&#8221;lazy&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/fallout-new-vegas-director-says-amazons-fallout-show-is-one-of-the-best-adaptations-of-a-video-game-franchise-and-no-he-isnt-bothered-by-dinky-facing-the-wrong-way.gif&#8221; data-cy=&#8221;progressive-image&#8221;&gt;<span class=\"button-text jsx-729543028 button button--primary jsx-3381835873 jsx-4266531355 row-pagination-button next contained centered round large\" data-cy=\"paginate next\" title=\"Open Slideshow\"><span class=\"ign-icon right-chevron jsx-2750866048 jsx-2919720488\" role=\"presentation\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-cy=\"right-chevron\"><\/span><\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Sawyer, though, understood the change and said he wasn\u2019t bothered by it, although he admitted he might have incurred the wrath of Fallout fans for saying so.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">\u201cI remember people were really upset that Dinky has turned around, and I&#8217;m like, personally\u2026 I get why people get upset about that, but also the scene wouldn&#8217;t work at all because it&#8217;s about Lucy firing into the thing or whatever.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">\u201cSo I understand why they did it. I wasn&#8217;t personally really bent out of shape about it. Maybe people will say I&#8217;m a traitor to Fallout now or something! I thought it was a good representation of a lot of the iconic stuff that you see in it. I am very interested in where it&#8217;s going to go. I think it&#8217;s probably one of the best adaptations of a video game franchise I&#8217;ve seen to TV or film. And I\u2019m looking forward to the next season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"jsx-313219616\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"null\" class=\"progressive-image article-image article-image-full-size jsx-1809694635 jsx-2338608387\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/fallout-new-vegas-director-says-amazons-fallout-show-is-one-of-the-best-adaptations-of-a-video-game-franchise-and-no-he-isnt-bothered-by-dinky-facing-the-wrong-way.gif\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><figcaption data-cy=\"caption\" class=\"caption jsx-1762799490 jsx-479945570 article-image-caption\">Dinky is facing the &#8220;wrong&#8221; way in the Fallout TV show, but there is a good reason for it. Image credit: Prime Video.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">\u201cWhat&#8217;s interesting though is the plot is like, yes, New Vegas was there, but it wasn&#8217;t about the plot of New Vegas,&#8221; Sawyer continued, as thoughts turn to Season 3. &#8220;It&#8217;s their own plot that they&#8217;re charting. Location-wise, I don&#8217;t know, but it&#8217;s clear that they have their own specific story that they&#8217;re telling through all of these areas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\"><em><strong>Warning!<\/strong><\/em><em> Spoilers for Fallout Season 2 finale follow\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Interestingly, the ending of Fallout Season 2 sets up Colorado as the location for Season 3, with The Ghoul, played by Walton Goggins, already on his way. The snowy peaks of post-apocalyptic Colorado have yet to be explored by the mainline Fallout video games, but it was the setting of a canceled version of Fallout 3, codenamed \u201cVan Buren,\u201d which Sawyer worked on as lead technical designer back at Black Isle Studios.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">As a result, everything Season 3 brings to the table will feel brand new to Fallout fans, and we can expect a significant expansion of the Fallout canon. The Fallout TV show is set after all the games, but are within the Fallout timeline and are canon. So everything we see in the show continues the overarching Fallout storyline. <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Bethesda chief Todd Howard recently said pre-production was underway on Season 3, which starts shooting this month in Los Angeles. Amazon has announced a number of actors joining the cast for Season 3, including Manny Jacinto from Star Wars show The Acolyte, Thomasin McKenzie from Jojo Rabbit, Emily Mortimer from The Newsroom, and Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul. Howard has described Paul as \u201ca Fallout fan from way back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\"><em>Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/fallout-new-vegas-director-says-amazons-fallout-show-is-one-of-the-best-adaptations-of-a-video-game-franchise-and-no-he-isnt-bothered-by-dinky-facing-the-wrong-way.webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/fallout-new-vegas-director-says-amazons-fallout-show-is-one-of-the-best-adaptations-of-a-video-game-franchise-and-no-he-isnt-bothered-by-dinky-facing-the-wrong-way.webp\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/fallout-new-vegas-director-says-amazons-fallout-show-is-one-of-the-best-adaptations-of-a-video-game-franchise-and-no-he-isnt-bothered-by-dinky-facing-the-wrong-way.webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/fallout-new-vegas-director-says-amazons-fallout-show-is-one-of-the-best-adaptations-of-a-video-game-franchise-and-no-he-isnt-bothered-by-dinky-facing-the-wrong-way.webp\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-11144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-49","tag-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11146,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11144\/revisions\/11146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}