With the first two seasons of Netflixโs The Witcher and HBOโs The Last of Us fresh in our memories, we were feeling rather optimistic about the Fallout series destined for Amazon Prime Video. Now that weโve received an early preview via first-look galleryโฆ we cannot bloody wait.
From the Vault Dwellersโ costuming and the Brotherhood of Steelโs imposing live-action presence to Walton Gogginsโ transformation into The Ghoul (courtesy of prosthetics extraordinaire Vincent Van Dyke), the video game adaptation has already been garnering major praise. And weโre inclined to agree.
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The images published today also tease Ella Purnell as Lucy โ a young, naive Vault Dweller who wanders from the safety of her irradiated shelter to venture forth into the post-apocalyptic world; Kyle MacLachlan as Hank โ Lucyโs father and โoverseerโ of Vault 33; plus Aaron Moten as Maximus โ a wannabe soldier and fresh-faced squire for a Power Suit knight from The Brotherhood of Steel.
The Fallout mythology is set in a post-apocalyptic world sometime after a seismic nuclear conflict between the US and China during an alternate timelineโs WWII.
Fast forwarding to the 21st century, resources are scarce, civilisation as we know it has collapsed, and there are now threats at all sides in the form of countless factions (as well as countless mutated species).
Amazon Prime Videoโs Fallout series will apparently be an entirely original story set in Los Angeles; and also be considered a canonical addition to the existing game franchise. The official synopsis is as follows:
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 thereโs 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 โ and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and highly violent universe waiting for them.
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The forthcoming affair has been developed by husband-wife duo and Westworld creators โ Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan (brother of director Christopher Nolan) โ with Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner signed on as series showrunners.
Walton Goggins, Ella Purnell, Kyle MacLachlan, and Aaron Moten are joined onscreen by Xelia Mendes-Jones, Mike Doyle, Moisรฉs Arias, Johnny Pemberton, Cherien Dabis, Dale Dickey, Matty Cardarople; alongside Sarita Choudhury, Michael Emerson, Leslie Uggams, Frances Turner, Dave Register, Zach Cherry, Rodrigo Luzzi, and Annabel OโHagan.
Amazon Prime Videoโs Fallout series is scheduled to premiere on April 12th, 2024 โ check out the first-look gallery above and below; stay tuned for updates.
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