Thanks to Vanity Fair, we have our first look at Prime Video’s upcoming live-action “Fallout” series. Based on the highly popular franchise from Bethesda, this looks to be AMAZING. HBO’s “Westworld” co-creators/showrunners Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan developed the series.
Ella Purnell plays Lucy, a vault dweller, and Kyle MacLachlan plays her father, vault overseer Hank. “Lucy is charming and plucky and strong,” Jonathan Nolan said. “And then you see she’s confronted with the reality of, hey, maybe the supposedly virtuous things you grew up with are not necessarily that virtuous. If they are virtuous, they’re couched in a circumstantial virtuousness. It’s a luxury virtue. You have your point of view because you never ran out of food, right? You guys were able to share everything—because you had enough to share.”
Lucy will eventually meet Maximus (Aaron Moten), who’s lived his whole life above ground. Maximus was raised by the Brotherhood of Steel, which Nolan describes as “being fueled by a mutated version of patriotism, religion, loyalty, and fraternity.”
Also yes, Walton Goggins is absolutely playing a Ghoul. “He becomes our guide and our protagonist in that [older] world, even as we understand him to be the antagonist at the end of the world,” Nolan said. “Walton’s equally adept at drama and comedy, which is so difficult. There is a chasm in time and distance between who this guy was and who he’s become, which for me creates an enormous dramatic question: What happened to this guy? So we’ll walk backwards into that.”
“The games are about the culture of division and haves and have-nots that, unfortunately, have only gotten more and more acute in this country and around the world over the last decades,” Nolan said. “We get to talk about that in a wonderful, speculative-fiction way,” says Nolan, who directed the first three episodes. “I think we’re all looking at the world and going, ‘God, things seem to be heading in a very, very frightening direction.’”
“We had a lot of conversations over the style of humor, the level of violence, the style of violence,” Todd Howard, the director of 2008’s Fallout 3 and 2015’s Fallout 4 who is executive producing the series, said. “Look, Fallout can be very dramatic, and dark, and postapocalyptic, but you need to weave in a little bit of a wink…. I think they threaded that needle really well on the TV show.”
Also, WE’RE GETTING THE VAULT BOY BACKSTORY, GUYS. “That was something that they came up with that’s just really smart,” Howard said about showing the Vault Boy’s origin.
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“Fallout” the series will release April 12th, 2024.
