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Post-Apocalyptic Folk Horror Survival Game ‘Atomfall’ Set for TV Adaptation
Atomfall, a post-apocalyptic action survival video game inspired by British sci-fi and folk horror, is being turned into a TV series, Deadline reports.
The game was published last year by indie studio Rebellion, which has teamed up with Two Brothers Pictures (“Fleabag”) for the adaptation.
Two Brothers founders Harry & Jack Williams (“The Tourist,” “The Missing”) are writing the series.
Atomfall is set in an alternative 1960s within a walled and militarized quarantine zone in England’s Lake District established after a nuclear disaster. The outside world is assumed to be continuing as normal, but life within the zone has deteriorated into something far stranger.
The game, which follows a protagonist who wakes up inside the quarantine zone with no memory of how they arrived, boasts over 3.7 million players since its March 2025 launch.
Rebellion co-founder Jason Kingsley developed the game, inspired by the UK’s worst-ever nuclear accident in 1957.
Kingsley and Ben Smith (Rogue Trooper) will executive produce the show for Rebellion alongside Alex Mercer (“Doctor Who”) for Two Brothers.
“Atomfall has such a distinctive British tone and setting, and it’s been a real joy developing it alongside the Rebellion team” the Williams brothers commented. “There’s something very exciting about expanding this strange, unsettling story for television.”
“Harry and Jack demonstrated a clear love for Atomfall and talked about their own particular endings when they were playing the game,” Kingsley added. “It is always exciting to work with people who share the same passion for creating and telling great stories and we are sure that this partnership will help to deliver a television series that will delight fans of the game and beyond.”
Atomfall won Best British Game at the BAFTA Game Awards earlier this month.
Himesh Patel (Tenet, Don’t Look Up) will star opposite Danielle Deadwyler (The Woman in the Yard) in Ryan Coogler’s reboot of “The X-Files“, which has wrapped filming on the pilot.
Patel confirmed the news in a chat with The Direct, while reiterating that he and Deadwyler play new characters.
“I don’t want to say anything that’s going to get me disappeared. Needless to say, myself and Danielle Deadwyler are playing completely new characters, and we just wrapped on the pilot. If we get to do more… we’ll see where we go from there,” Patel said.
That last sentence is noteworthy, as Patel is reminding that Hulu has only ordered the pilot so far. A full series order has yet to be greenlit.
It’s a good reminder, considering that Hulu also ordered a pilot for the “Buffy: New Sunnydale” reboot that was filmed and delivered earlier this year, only for the streamer to send shockwaves when it opted not to move forward with the series.
As for “The X-Files” pilot, Sinners filmmaker Ryan Coogler writes and directs the pilot. Jennifer Yale (“The Copenhagen Test”) serves as showrunner.
Himesh Patel and Danielle Deadwyler play two highly decorated but vastly different FBI agents who form an unlikely bond when they are assigned to a long-shuttered division devoted to cases involving unexplained phenomena.
Patel and Deadwyler previously co-starred together on “Station Eleven.”
Other actors who have signed on for guest roles include Amy Madigan, Steve Buscemi, Ben Foster, Devery Jacobs, Lochlyn Munro, Tantoo Cardinal, Joel D. Montgrand, and Sofia Grace Clifton.
“The X-Files” originally ran for nine seasons between 1993 and 2002, with two additional seasons arriving in 2016 and 2018. 218 episodes were produced in total, along with two feature films: 1998’s The X-Files: Fight the Future and 2008’s The X-Files: I Want to Believe.
Himesh Patel in “Station Eleven”
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