TIL: "A Boy and His Dog" (1975) was a little cult movie with BIG cultural impact. Fallout games, Mad Max, others
TIL: "A Boy and His Dog" (1975) was a little cult movie with BIG cultural impact. Fallout games, Mad Max, others
"Fallout" and Harlan Ellison's "A Boy and His Dog"
In 1969, he wrote a short story titled “A Boy and His Dog,” which tells the tale of a 15-year-old wasteland scavenger named Vic and his telepathic dog Blood. The story was also adapted into a 1975 film, which Fallout designer Jesse Heinig told The Escapist in 2009 "inspired Fallout on many levels" (including Dogmeat's name, which was taken from a nickname Vic gives Blood in the film).
It also influenced "Love and Monsters" (2020)
https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/lq-jones-on-a-boy-and-his-dog-the-rt-interview/
And Mad Max.
Oh, and the dog is the same dog that was "Tiger" on "The Brady Bunch"