Bringing Fallout’s gritty retrofuturism into the real world

For production designer Howard Cummings, Fallout wasn't just the name of his most recent project - it also became a verb. As he was working on Amazon's live-action adaptation of the game series, Cummings and his team used the word Fallout as a shorthand to describe the particular retrofuturistic, post-apocalyptic style the franchise is known for. Everything had to be Fallout-ed," he tells The Verge. For locations, I'd say: How do I Fallout this grocery store?'"

Initially, though, that wasn't the plan. Going into the project, Cummings - who previously worked on shows like Westworld and Lovecraft Country - didn't know all that much about the games and thought he might have to update the visual style to make it slicker." That changed...

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