In 1998, Interplay Entertainment founded the film division Interplay Films to make films based on its properties, and announced that a "Fallout" film was one of their first projects, along adaptations of "Descent" and "Redneck Rampage". In 2000, Interplay confirmed that a film based on the original "Fallout" game was in production with "" screenwriter Brent V. Friedman attached to write a film treatment and with Dark Horse Entertainment attached to produce it. The division was later disbanded without any film produced, but Friedman's treatment was leaked on the Internet in 2011.