Well, this is a nice suprise. Just a couple of weeks on from me revisiting it to check out the DLC it’d gotten since my review run, Rebellion have announced that their Cumbrian post-apocalyptic survior Atomfall’s being adapted into a TV show.

The show’s being developed by Two Brothers Pictures, the UK production company behind the likes of BBC comedy Fleabag and Amazon Prime crime thriller The Assassin. Harry and Jack Williams are writing it for Two Brothers, with Rebellion bosses Jason and Chris Kingsley executive producing.

“Harry and Jack demonstrated a clear love for Atomfall and talked about their own particular endings when they were playing the game,” the Kingsley brothers said. “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.”

There’s no release date and while the press release recaps the game’s plot, it doesn’t appear to confirm whether the show’ll be a straight-up retelling of that story. I reckon it’ll probably be better off telling its own story of life in the Windscale quarantine zone or the events of the disaster that sets the game’s events in motion rather than spending hours following a mute survivalist as they creep around the Lake District and occasionally slap people with a cricket bat.

That said, I definitely think Atomfall’s fertile TV show ground. As I mentioned in my revisit feature, I thought its two expansions – Wicked Isle and The Red Strain – did a good job of putting more intriguing narrative meat onto an initially very lean bone that generally preferred subtlety to getting weird. It’ll be interesting to see, given British post-apocalyptic media’s got a history of leaning darker than its American counterpart, whether this show dips even further into that than the base game did or if it’ll go for a gory but generally pretty upbeat vibe akin to Amazon’s Fallout show.