The Creators of WESTWORLD Are Developing a FALLOUT Series and Prime Video Has Announced the Premiere Date
Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy have been developing a series adaptation of the hit video game franchise Fallout for Amazon Studios and Prime Video has announced that the series is set to premiere on April 12, 2024.
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 cast for the show 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).
Jonathan Nolan is set to direct the first three episodes, and Geneva Robertson-Dworet (Captain Marvel) and Graham Wagner (Silicon Valley) have jumped on board as showrunners.
When previously talking about their excitement for the project, Nolan and Joy 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.”
The premiere date announcement comes on the 26th anniversary of Fallout Day, which is an annual celebration of all things dedicated to the video game franchise. Amazon Studios has also launched the series’ official social channels with an interactive Pip-Boy interface graphic.