David Farnor | On 07, Mar 2024

Amazon has opened the vault to the first trailer for its Fallout series.

The live-action adaptation of the hit video game franchise tells the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s 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 – and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and highly violent universe waiting for them.

The trailer maintains the game’s expansive world-building and signature dark humour, seeing vault dweller Lucy (Ella Purnell) struggle to adapt to the twisted and dangerous world of the irradiated wasteland, and offering the first glimpse of Moldaver (Sarita Choudhury) and Ma June (Dale Dickey).

Jonathan Nolan directed the first three episodes of the Kilter Films series. Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner serve as executive producers, writers and co-showrunners. The series co-stars Aaron Moten (Emancipation) and Walton Goggins (The Hateful Eight), along with Moisés Arias (The King of Staten Island), Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks), Michael Emerson (Person of Interest), Leslie Uggams (Deadpool), Frances Turner (The Boys), Dave Register (Heightened), Zach Cherry (Severance), Johnny Pemberton (Ant-Man), Rodrigo Luzzi (Dead Ringers), Annabel O’Hagan (Law & Order: SVU), and Xelia Mendes-Jones (The Wheel of Time).

You can see them in action on 11th April, when all eight episodes arrive on Amazon Prime Video – one day sooner than previously announced.

 

First look: Amazon’s Fallout series arrives in April 2024

2nd December 2023

Amazon’s Fallout series will premiere in April 2024, and new images give us a first look at the video game adaptation.

Fallout tells the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s 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 – and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and highly violent universe waiting for them.

The series comes from Kilter Films and executive producers Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. Nolan directed the first three episodes. Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner serve as executive producers, writers and co-showrunners. The series stars Ella Purnell (Yellowjackets), Walton Goggins (The Hateful Eight), and Aaron Moten (Emancipation).

The series cast includes Moisés Arias (The King of Staten Island), Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks), Sarita Choudhury (Homeland), Michael Emerson (Person of Interest), Leslie Uggams (Deadpool), Frances Turner (The Boys), Dave Register (Heightened), Zach Cherry (Severance), Johnny Pemberton (Ant-Man), Rodrigo Luzzi (Dead Ringers), Annabel O’Hagan (Law & Order: SVU), and Xelia Mendes-Jones (The Wheel of Time).

Ella Purnell plays Lucy, an optimistic Vault Dweller with an all-American, can-do spirit. Her peaceful and idealistic nature is tested when people harm her loved ones.

Aaron Moten plays Maximus, a young soldier who hides his tragic past as he serves in a militaristic faction called Brotherhood of Steel. He believes in the nobility of the Brotherhood’s mission to bring law and order to the Wasteland – and will do anything to further their goals.

Walton Goggins plays The Ghoul, who survives the Wasteland as a bounty hunter. He is pragmatic, ruthless, and hides a mysterious past.

Kyle MacLachlan plays Hank, the Overseer of Vault 33 and Lucy’s father. He is eager to change the world for the better.

You can see them in action on 12th August 2024, when the series premieres on Prime Video.

 

 

Fallout series gets April 2024 release date

25th October 2023

Amazon will officially release its Fallout TV series in April 2024.

Fallout, which began in 1997, takes place in a world where the future envisioned by Americans in the 1940s has exploded through a nuclear war in 2077. The series will juxtapose the wasteland fallout with the utopian idea of a better world through nuclear energy, fusing B-movie thrills and dark humour with the bleak depiction of a harsh future.

Set in the future post-apocalyptic Los Angeles and world of Fallout, the series is an original story based on Fallout that will be part of the canon of the games. The series comes from Kilter Films and executive producers Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, the creators of Westworld.

The series cast includes Ella Purnell (Yellowjackets), Walton Goggins (The Hateful Eight), Aaron Moten (Emancipation), Moisés Arias (The King of Staten Island), Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks), Sarita Choudhury (Homeland), Michael Emerson (Person of Interest), Leslie Uggams (Deadpool), Frances Turner (The Boys), Dave Register (Heightened), Zach Cherry (Severance), Johnny Pemberton (Ant-Man), Rodrigo Luzzi (Dead Ringers), Annabel O’Hagan (Law & Order: SVU), and Xelia Mendes-Jones (The Wheel of Time).

Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner serve as executive producers, writers and co-showrunners. Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy executive produce via Kilter Films under their Amazon overall deal. Athena Wickham of Kilter Films also executive produces along with Todd Howard for Bethesda Game Studios and James Altman for Bethesda Softworks. Amazon and Kilter Films produce in association with Bethesda Game Studios and Bethesda Softworks. Nolan directed the first three episodes of the epic series.

You can see the end result in action on 12th April 2024, when the series will debut on Amazon Prime Video worldwide.

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Amazon orders Fallout series from Westworld creators

3rd July 2020

Amazon has ordered a new series based on the Fallout video game franchise. Booting it up? Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy.

The duo have become one of the most prominent show running partnerships in TV, inking a five-year overall deal with Amazon Studios via their company Kilter Films. The agreement has already borne fruit in the form of The Peripheral, a sci-fi drama based on the William Gibson novel picked up by Amazon Studios in 2018. Now, they’re setting their sights on another sci-fi epic.

Fallout, which began in 1997, takes place in a world where the future envisioned by Americans in the 1940s has exploded through a nuclear war in 2077. The series will juxtapose the wasteland fallout with the utopian idea of a better world through nuclear energy, fusing B-movie thrills and dark humour with the bleak depiction of a harsh future.

The series is being made in association with the games’ producers, Bethesda Game Studios, with Nolan and Joy exec-producing alongside Kilter’s Athena Wickham and Bethesda’s Todd Howard and James Altman.

“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,” said Joy and Nolan in a statement.

“Over the last decade, we looked at many ways to bring Fallout to the screen,” added Howard. “But it was clear from the moment I first spoke with Jonah and Lisa a few years ago, that they and the team at Kilter were the ones to do it right. We’re enormous fans of their work and couldn’t be more excited to work with them and Amazon Studios.”

“Fallout is an iconic global franchise, with legions of fans worldwide and a rich, deeply compelling storyline that powers it. And Jonah and Lisa are the perfect storytellers to bring this series to life,” added Albert Cheng, COO and co-head of television at Amazon Studios. “We’re thrilled to join with Bethesda to bring Fallout to television.”

The news comes as HBO is working on an adaptation of The Last of Us, while Showtime is producing a Halo series. The project has a series commitment penalty attached, which means it will go straight to series if Amazon Studios likes the scripts.

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