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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.
AMC announced today it has renewed Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire for a fourth season, and it’s officially titled Anne Rice’s Queen of the Damned.
The news was announced during its Comic-Con International Hall H panel for The Vampire Lestat featuring series executive producers Mark Johnson and Hannah Moscovitch and castmates Jacob Anderson, Assad Zaman, Eric Bogosian and Sheila Atim.
Based on the beloved novel, Anne Rice’s Queen of the Damned will be executive produced and showrun by Moscovitch, along with executive producers Johnson and Rolin Jones.
An accomplished writer and playwright, Moscovitch was a writer on the first two seasons of Interview with the Vampire and an executive producer on The Vampire Lestat, for which she specifically wrote the “Akasha” and “Gabriella” characters.
“In The Vampire Lestat, Mark, Rolin, Hannah and this extraordinary cast delivered an unforgettable season filled with propulsive storytelling that captivated the passionate and engaged fans of this franchise,” said Dan McDermott, Chief Content Officer of AMC Global Media and President of AMC Studios. “We can’t wait to continue the journey with Queen of the Damned, one of the most iconic stories in Anne Rice’s mythology, and watch our established and beloved characters confront Akasha with their world, and ours, very much hanging in the balance.”
The Vampire Lestat stars Sam Reid, Anderson, Zaman, Bogosian, Atim, Delainey Hayles and Jennifer Ehle and is executive produced by award-winning producer Johnson, creator, writer and showrunner Jones, Moscovitch, along with Christopher Rice and the late Anne Rice.
In season three, Lestat goes on an electric multi-city tour while being haunted by “muses” from his wild and rebellious past. As his band’s popularity and star power rise, so does Lestat’s influence over vampires and humans alike, leaving others to contend with Lestat’s power in the face of the Great Conversion, an unnatural surge in the vampire population.
He awakens Akasha (Sheila Atim), the eponymous character of season four. Watch the teaser below.
All hail your new queen.
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