Say what you will about Todd Howard, Bethesda, and Amazon, but boy, do they know how to put on a show!
Today, Amazon released the full trailer of its TV adaptation of the beloved video game series Fallout, also confirming all eight episodes will be released on Prime Video on April 11th, 2024.
Fallout, starring Ella Purnell, Walton Goggins, Aaron Moten, and Kyle MacLachlan, will follow idealistic Vault Dweller Lucy as she heads out for the first time into the Wasteland to rescue her father. Here is what Amazon has to say about the series:
Based on one of the greatest video game series of all time, Fallout is the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. 200 years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind — and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird and highly violent universe waiting for them.
The series comes from Kilter Films and executive producers Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. Nolan directed the first three episodes. Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner serve as executive producers, writers, and co-showrunners. Athena Wickham of Kilter Films also executive produces, along with Todd Howard for Bethesda Game Studios and James Altman for Bethesda Softworks.
Rather than a reboot of the property, creator Jonathan Nolan and his team decided to stick with the existing lore of the games, telling a brand-new story in post-apocalyptic 23rd-century Los Angeles. Moreover, they made the striking decision to closely follow the visual design language of the series, giving us video-game-accurate depictions of Vaults, Vault jumpsuits, and power armor. The world design here seems more inspired by the pastel palette seen in Fallout 4 and Fallout 76 than the grittier and darker tones of Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas, but if you’ve played any of the games, you’ll immediately recognize everything from Radroaches to Pip-Boys.
The creator of the show, Jonathan Nolan, is a fan of the series and has an impressive track record as the co-writer of The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises (directed by his brother, Christopher Nolan), the co-creator of HBO’s high-concept sci-fi show Westworld, and much more. Partnered with long-time series shepard Todd Howard (making his first foray into television), we can only hope that their combined vision translates the subject matter into a binge-worthy series.
As a lover of Fallout, I can’t pretend I’m not a little disappointed that Bethesda’s vision of Fallout 5 is a television series rather than a video game. However, I also can’t help but be excited by the incredible glimpses of characters, monsters, and world-building seen in the trailer. Even better, it looks like Dogmeat is part of the cast!
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