FALLOUT TV Series Shares Release Date Window, Setting, and First Look
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Yet another fan-favorite video game series is making the transition to television. Fallout is heading to Prime video with Westworld‘s Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy helming the show. Their pitch for the Fallout TV series based on the successful post-apocalyptic franchise received a straight-to-series order from the streaming service. And now its cast is coming together. Ella Purnell, who recently starred in Yellowjackets, will lead the series, alongside Walton Goggins and Kyle MacLachlan. Most recently, Prime Video released a first look at the Fallout series, as well as a release window for when we can expect the show to air.
Fallout TV Series Release Date Window
While we still don’t have a specific release date for the Fallout series or even a specific month, we finally know more about when we can expect the show. The official social media accounts for Prime Video shared, “Fallout, an original series, coming to Prime Video in 2024.”
We’re glad to hear it. Somehow 2024 isn’t far off. We’ll have to stay tuned for more information on the exact release date of the Fallout series.
Prime Video’s Fallout Series Will Take Place in LA
The release date window announcement also signals the Fallout show will take place in Los Angeles, a location the series has never before gone in the games. We’ll be curious to see how this version of the apocalypse takes shape in the city of dreams/angels.
Our First Look at the Fallout Series
Some time ago, Prime Video shared a first-look tease for the Fallout series. The first look doesn’t reveal too much, just a glimpse at Fallout‘s Vault 33. But we’re excited to know the show is coming along. In the Fallout, ghouls “are mutated humans or animals affected by the phenomenon of ghoulification… Despite their zombie-like appearance, the flesh of ghouls is not actually rotten… They have greatly extended overall lifespans and are immune to (and sometimes even healed by) background radiation and/or nuclear fallout.” So we expect to see a lot of that in the show. We wonder how ghouls will stack up against The Last of Us‘ clickers and bloaters when they arrive. We suspect they will all give us nightmares.
More About the Fallout Series
Nolan and Joy’s Kilter Films is producing the Fallout series together with Bethesda Game Studios and Bethesda Softworks. In a statement, Joy and Nolan said, “Fallout is one of the greatest game series of all time. Each chapter of this insanely imaginative story has cost us countless hours we could have spent with family and friends. So we’re incredibly excited to partner with Todd Howard and the rest of the brilliant lunatics at Bethesda to bring this massive, subversive, and darkly funny universe to life with Amazon Studios.”
When the initial announcement dropped in mid-2020, Amazon released a short teaser video, which you can watch below:
In addition to Ella Purnell, Walton Goggins, and Kyle MacLachlan, Xelia Mendes-Jones and Aaron Moten also joined the cast of the Fallout series. Their roles are currently under wraps.
The post-nuclear apocalypse games have been best-sellers since their debut in 1997. The Fallout franchise has expanded to include 10 games since then. The game’s world is based on a harsh future. Post World War II, Americans hoped for a future rooted in nuclear energy. They had a utopian vision of a better world. However, that results in a full on nuclear war in 2077. The Great War that wrecks the United States provides the setting for Fallout world. Players travel through a total wasteland. Although the games are mostly serious in tone, they also have their share of ironic humor.
Rumors of a Fallout television adaptation have circulated for a long time, so we’re glad to finally see it in action. There have been many video game series adaptations released recently, and we can’t wait to see how this one turns out.
Originally published on July 2, 2020.
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