Fallout is a 2024 American post-apocalyptic drama television series created by Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner for Amazon Prime Video. It is based on the role-playing video game franchise created by Interplay Entertainment and now owned by Bethesda Softworks.
Amazon purchased the rights to produce a live-action project in 2020, and the show was announced that July, with Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan’s Kilter Films joined by Bethesda Game Studios and Bethesda Softworks in the production. Nolan directed the first three episodes. Bethesda Game Studios producer Todd Howard, who directed various games in the series, signed on to executive produce alongside Joy and Nolan. Robertson-Dworet and Wagner were hired as the series’ showrunners in January 2022, and Walton Goggins and Ella Purnell were cast in February and March, respectively.
Fallout is scheduled to premiere on Prime Video on April 11, 2024.
Premise
The show depicts the aftermath of an apocalyptic nuclear exchange in an alternate history of Earth where advances in nuclear technology after WWII led to the emergence of a retrofuturistic society and a subsequent resource war. The survivors took refuge in fallout bunkers known as Vaults, built to preserve humanity in the event of nuclear annihilation. 219 years later, a young woman leaves a vault, the only life she has ever known, to venture out into the dangerously brutal, hostile, savage and unforgiving Wasteland of a devastated Los Angeles in the post apocalyptic United States.
Cast
Main
- Ella Purnell as Lucy, a young Vault Dweller and the primary protagonist
- Aaron Moten as Maximus, a squire of the Brotherhood of Steel
- Walton Goggins as The Ghoul / Cooper Howard, a mutated gunslinger and bounty hunter who has been alive since before the bombs fell
Guest
- Kyle MacLachlan as Hank, Lucy’s father and a Vault Overseer
- Xelia Mendes-Jones as Dane
- Mike Doyle as Mr. Spencer
- Moisés Arias as Norm, Lucy’s brother
- Johnny Pemberton as Thaddeus
- Cherien Dabis as Birdie
- Dale Dickey as Ma June
- Matty Cardarople as Huey
- Sarita Choudhury
- Michael Emerson as Wilzig, an enigmatic wanderer who aids Lucy
- Leslie Uggams
- Chris Parnell
- Frances Turner
- Dave Register as Chet
- Zach Cherry
- Rodrigo Luzzi as Reg
- Annabel O’Hagan as Steph
- Matt Berry as “Mr. Handy”, a RobCo Industries helper bot
- Rafi Silver as Robert House, the Pre-War founder and CEO of RobCo Industries.
Production
Development
In July 2020 it was announced that a television adaptation of the Fallout video games had received a series commitment from Amazon Studios (later renamed Amazon MGM Studios) developed by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. Joy described the series as “a gonzo, crazy, funny, adventure, and mindfuck like none you’ve ever seen before”.
In January 2022 Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner were hired as showrunners for the series, with Nolan set to direct the pilot episode.
The show was confirmed to be set within the same continuity as the franchise during an interview on November 28, 2023 since Howard wanted to avoid adapting any of the previous games and sought for an original story to be told instead.
Casting
In February, Walton Goggins was cast in a lead role as a Cooper Howard, an actor who became a Ghoul after the bombs fell. In March, Ella Purnell joined the cast. In June, Kyle MacLachlan, Xelia Mendes-Jones and Aaron Moten joined as regulars.
In October 2023, additional casting including Sarita Choudhury, Michael Emerson, Leslie Uggams and Zach Cherry was announced.
Filming
Filming began on July 5, 2022, in New Jersey, New York and Utah. Additional filming took place in Namibia on the Skeleton Coast. Nolan directed the first 3 episodes of the series, with Stuart Dryburgh and Teodoro Maniaci serving as cinematographers.
Release
Fallout is scheduled to premiere on Amazon Prime Video on April 11, 2024.
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