New Photos from Amazon's Series Adaption of FALLOUT and Story Details Revealed
Amazon has released a collection of new photos showing off its highly-anticipated series adaptation of the hit video game franchise Fallout. They offer a first real look at the post-apocalyptic setting of the series along with images of Walton Goggins in the role of "Ghoul”, Yellowjackets star Ella Purnell as Lucy, and the Brotherhood of Steel all decked out in the Power Armor.
The world of Fallout is “one where the future envisioned by Americans in the late 1940s explodes upon itself through a nuclear war in 2077. In Fallout, the harshness of the wasteland is set against the previous generation’s utopian idea of a better world through nuclear energy. It is serious in tone, yet sprinkled with moments of ironic humor and B-movie-nuclear-fantasies.”
As for the series, it is set in future post-apocalyptic Los Angeles it will tell an original story based on the fallout games and this new story will be part of the canon of the games.
The story centers on Lucy, who “has lived her entire life inside a subterranean vault, where every need and want has been satisfied while generations and generations await the day when it is safe to surface.”
It’s explained that “When a crisis forces Lucy to venture above on a rescue mission, she finds that the planet above remains a hellscape crawling with giant insects, voracious mutant animal ‘abominations,’ and a human population of sunbaked miscreants who make the manners, morals, and hygiene of the gunslinging Old West look like Downton Abbey… 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 tells Vanity Fair for this exclusive first look.”
Lucy is described as being nice, but naive. “In the Fallout universe, the human beings fortunate enough to ride out the apocalypse in underground communities only had that option available to them because they had money. Forcing doe-eyed Lucy out into this sadistic, Darwinian remnant of civilization opens the door for Fallout to engage in some social satire as well as action and adventure.”
The series was created by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy (Westworld) and Nolan said: “We get to talk about that in a wonderful, speculative-fiction way. I think we’re all looking at the world and going, ‘God, things seem to be heading in a very, very frightening direction.’”
He added: “So many of us have such naive ideas, even now, about everyone else’s experiences, and it’s one of the things I love about America. It’s this giant, manic collection of different experiences, different points of view. Lucy is charming and plucky and strong…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.”
He went on to explain that the story tracks “her collision with the hard reality of other people’s experiences and what happened to the people who, frankly, were left behind, left to die.”
The show itself is scheduled to be released on April 12, 2024. Check out the images below and let us know if you like what you see!
Source: Vanity Fair