Fallout has been around since 1997, meaning Prime TV's Fallout series had more than 25 years worth of reference material to draw on. According to Emmy-nominated makeup department head Michael Harvey, director Jonathan Nolan wanted the show to feel authentic to the world fans have loved for decades… but he also wanted to avoid exactly copying the source material.
"Jonah [Jonathan Nolan] explicitly told me, use the game as a reference," Harvey told PC Gamer. Nolan wanted his team to "lean into the world for what it is, and take the elements from that world," but also use their own imagination and creativity, Harvey said. "Don't carbon copy anything," Nolan told him.
