Summary
- Amazon’s adaptation of the popular video game, Fallout, will premiere on Prime Video next year.
- The show will maintain the game’s retro-futuristic aesthetic and post-apocalyptic setting, depicting an original story set in a world devastated by nuclear war.
- The Fallout series features an all-star cast including Walton Goggins, Ella Purnell and Kyle Maclachlan.
We finally know when Amazon’s adaptation of the hugely popular video game, Fallout, with Bethesda Softworks taking to social media to reveal that the show will land on Prime Video next year. “PLEASE REMAIN CALM. An Important Dated Message Brought to You By Your Friends at @primevideo,” the post on Instagram reads, with the short video unveiling the release date of the Fallout series: April 12th, 2024. Check out the post below:
Featuring all the iconography, including the Fallout mascot ‘Vault Boy,’ that fans of the video game have grown accustomed to, the announcement should have fans even more excited for the Amazon adaptation and eager to see the first trailer for the series. The announcement has been made on today of all days, ‘Fallout Day,’ the day the war began which led to the world becoming a post-apocalyptic wasteland riddled with mutants and all manner of other threats.
Based on the series of post-apocalyptic role-playing video games, Fallout will maintain the same “atompunk” retro-futuristic aesthetic and 1950s America as the source material. It has been reported that the show will be an original story, but one that will still depict the aftermath of a nuclear war which has forced humanity to live in bunkers underground.
The Fallout saga first began way back in 1997, and has since spawned several sequels and spinoffs, with fans awaiting the official confirmation of Fallout 5.
Fallout Stars Walton Goggins, Ella Purnell & Kyle Maclachlan
The Fallout show will feature an all-star cast including Ella Purnell (Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Yellowjackets), Walton Goggins (Justified, The Hateful Eight), Aaron Moten (Emancipation), Moisés Arias (The King of Staten Island), Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet), and Sarita Choudhury (Homeland).
Developed by Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan for Amazon Prime Video, Fallout is a co-production between Amazon Studios and Kilter Films, in association with Bethesda Game Studios and Bethesda Softworks, with Bethesda’s executive producer Todd Howard (who has also directed several of the Fallout games including Fallout 3 and Fallout 4) is an executive producer on the series.
Howard has hinted at what audiences and fans can expect of the series, revealing that he was drawn to this take as it would not simply be a transfer of the game from pixel to live action (via IGN).
“When people wanted to make a movie they wanted to tell the story of Fallout 3 or tell the story of Fallout 4, and it was meh. For this it was, ‘hey let’s do something that exists within the world of Fallout.’ It’s not retelling a game story. It’s basically an area of the map. Let’s tell a story here that fits in the world that we have built, doesn’t break any of the rules, can reference things in the games, but isn’t a retelling of the games,” he continued. “[It] exists in the same world but is its own unique thing, so it adds to it. While also, people who haven’t played the games, who can’t experience how crazy cool Fallout is, can watch the series.”
So, once again, Fallout is scheduled to land on Amazon Prime Video on April 12th, 2024.
This story originally appeared on Movieweb
