From ‘Warcraft’ to ‘Fallout’: How Video Game Adaptations Finally Won Over Hollywood

There is a moment in the second episode of Amazon’s Fallout where Walton Goggins, playing a 200-year-old radioactive cowboy, watches a chicken cross a desert road and decides not to eat it. He explains his reasoning in three lines of dialogue and the chicken keeps walking. It is a stupid scene. It is also the...