Exclusive: Production designer Howard Cumming explains how and why the Fallout TV show had to make some change to the iconic Pip-Boy device.
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Summary
- The
Fallout
production designer explains that the Pip-Boy had to be scaled down for the show because it was too big. - Star Ella Purnell has small wrists and the Pip-Boy had to fit and look natural.
- Scenes of the Pip-Boy’s screen in the show are real since the device has a working cellphone inside it.
Fallout production designer Howard Cumming explains the show’s one big change to the game’s Pip-Boy device. Based on the beloved video game franchise of the same name, the Prime Video series was released earlier this month, following vault dweller Lucy (Ella Purnell) as she embarks on an adventure in the radioactive wasteland above ground. The Fallout reviews almost unanimously praised the show, with critics and audiences alike applauding the characters, storytelling, and faithfulness to the source material.
In a recent interview with Screen Rant, Cumming explains that the Fallout TV show did have to make a notable change to the Pip-Boy, a personal computer device that vault dwellers wear on their wrists. According to the production designer, the show had to size these devices down compared to how big they are in the games. Check out her full comment below:
Everything Fallout is all about scale, right? And the Pip-Boys are huge in the game. Huge. So, I talked to Todd Howard about it, I said, “You know we’re shrinking the Pip-Boy?” And he said, “Oh, no, the Pip-Boy is big in the game, because you have to play it on your screen. Pip-Boys should be smaller.” And then we had Ella Purnell, who’s a tiny girl and she has a tiny wrists.
So, we had to question everything, but I kept it exactly the way it looked. And we shrunk it down and they wanted it to work. I forget what the prop guys did, I don’t know which phone we found, it was some weird phone that actually could fit in that thing. So when they’re using it, you’re seeing it, it’s not replaced later in post, we actually did all that stuff.
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Fallout
Based on the video game franchise of the same name, Fallout is a drama series set in post-apocalyptic Los Angeles. The series follows the survivors of the human race in an alternate 1950s timeline, where nuclear war laid waste to the Earth, spawning large irradiated areas and mutated humans who now roam the planet.
- Cast
- Walton Goggins , Ella Purnell , Kyle MacLachlan , Xelia Mendes-Jones , Aaron Moten
- Release Date
- April 10, 2024
- Seasons
- 1
- Writers
- Lisa Joy , Jonathan Nolan
- Showrunner
- Lisa Joy , Jonathan Nolan
- Creator(s)
- Graham Wagner , Geneva Robertson-Dworet
