A Fallout movie certainly sounds like it might be interesting, given the futuristic setting of Bethesda's sci-fi RPG series. In fact, back when the IP was owned by previous custodians Interplay, plans for a movie were made and then shelved.
It seems that Bethesda is having similar thoughts to its predecessors, except while the studio is considering their options in terms of a cinematic adaptation, nothing has "clicked" as yet and a movie remains a prospect, not a reality.
"We've had a couple of in-roads, particularly with Fallout, which is a bit stickier than Elder Scrolls, but everybody's kind of asked and I've taken a number of meetings over the years and nothing quite clicked," company boss Todd Howard told GI.biz.
"And that may happen. I don't rule it out, but nothing really has clicked where - the games are popular enough and that's their identity."
Part of the reason was Fallout 4, as the studio didn't want to create a disconnect between its game and a movie that might have envisioned the post apocalypse differently.
"One of them [the movie or the game] wouldn't be quite right and you wouldn't want that to be the game [should] the movie take it in another direction. I would say we have a pretty high bar as far as what we would want it to be if it ever happened and nothing's quite clicked.
"Even little things like, 'What does the vault suit look like?' - every little thing we obsess over so the game is the thing where it really exists."