So far, in the renaissance of film and TV adaptations of video games, on the film side, the clear winners have been the Sonic film franchise and the Super Mario Bros movie, with the latter grossing over $1.3 billion at the box office. On the TV side, the standouts have been HBO's The Last of Us and Amazon's Fallout series, and the momentum started by Season 1 of Fallout is already being carried forward with Season 2.
In fact, it seems that Amazon is so enamoured with the success it has seen from its Fallout series that not only is Fallout getting a Season 3, but a new report from film and TV insider Jeff Sneider (spotted by ComicBook) claims that Amazon is working on a totally new Fallout TV show based on a different game in the franchise: Fallout Shelter.
Yes, you read that right. The hit mobile and tabletop game that eventually made its way to consoles and PC is apparently the foundation for the next adaptation of Fallout, and it's not going to be another fictional story with new characters in Bethesda's nuclear dystopian future. It's going to be a reality competition show, according to the report, with competitors vying to keep vault dwellers alive and provide them with the necessary resources like food, water, and keeping their vault shelter safe.
The report adds that we could see the show take place across multiple Vaults, or potentially just one large one. It's unclear at the moment, though hopefully, as we get into 2026 and once the current season of Amazon's already-running Fallout series has concluded, we'll hear more about this Fallout Shelter spin-off.
While it'll be some time before we know for sure if this reality competition adaptation is in the works, we do know that Bethesda has already been weaving in references to the TV show Amazon already has running in the mobile game.
Alongside the premiere of season 2, Bethesda introduced a Viva New Vegas Season in Fallout Shelter, which features limited-time vaults separate from your main vaults and features three main characters from the TV show: Lucy, Maximus and The Ghoul.
It's clear that Bethesda is doing whatever it can to create connections between every game in the Fallout franchise and the hit TV show on Amazon. There's even a new season of Fallout 76 inspired by the show. It doesn't confirm anything, or even lean towards Sneider's claim being correct, but these connections do at least suggest that Bethesda wants to do everything it can to take advantage of the show's success.
A reality competition show, based on one of the more obscure games in the Fallout lineup, is definitely one way of trying to do that.
After all, it'll be years before we even see any hint of Fallout 5, with The Elder Scrolls VI on deck to be Bethesda's next major game. It'll be a lot easier for Bethesda to have a successful return for the series if it can keep it top of mind for players while we all wait for a new mainline game. They can only re-release Fallout 4 so many times before people stop caring, after all.
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