Atomfall Game Getting TV Series From Two Brothers
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- Rebellion and Two Brothers Pictures are co-producing a TV adaptation of Atomfall, with Emmy and Golden Globe-winning writers Harry and Jack Williams set to write the series.
- Atomfall won Best British Game at this month's BAFTA Game Awards, with over 3.7M players having explored the game since it launched last year.
- The game is set in a walled, militarized Quarantine Zone in England's Lake District established after a nuclear incident, and was developed from an idea by Jason Kingsley inspired by the 1957 Windscale nuclear plant disaster — the UK's worst-ever nuclear accident.
- Rebellion's Jason Kingsley (CEO/Creative Director) and Chris Kingsley (Co-founder/CTO) will executive produce alongside Two Brothers' Alex Mercer (Doctor Who), with Ben Smith (Rogue Trooper) exec producing for Rebellion.
- Two Brothers Pictures is part of All3Media and its credits include Fleabag, Liar, Baptiste and The Assassin, while Rebellion — owner of the 2000 AD comic book imprint (Judge Dredd, Rogue Trooper) — is ramping up its film and TV operations.
- Atomfall marks Rebellion's first major foray into TV series, joining The Last of Us and Fallout in a wave of post-apocalyptic videogame-to-TV adaptations currently in vogue.
Why it matters: The deal gives Rebellion — best known for Sniper Elite and its 2000 AD comic book imprint — its first major TV series credit, pairing the studio's 3.7M-player Atomfall IP with Two Brothers' prestige TV pedigree (Fleabag, The Assassin). Atomfall's distinctly British folk-horror take on the post-apocalyptic genre, set in a Lake District Quarantine Zone, is a tonal lane none of the competing U.S.-based game adaptations (The Last of Us, Fallout) currently occupy.
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