FALLOUT: First Look At Prime Video's TV Show Reveals Unexpected Role For ANT-MAN AND THE WASP's Walton Goggins

FALLOUT: First Look At Prime Video's TV Show Reveals Unexpected Role For ANT-MAN AND THE WASP's Walton Goggins

A first look at Prime Video's upcoming Fallout TV series has been revealed, and as well as being strikingly accurate to the hit video game franchise, we have some intriguing story and character details...

By JoshWilding - Nov 28, 2023 04:11 PM EST
Filed Under: Video Games
Source: Vanity Fair (via SFFGazette.com)

With video game adaptations no longer as routinely disappointing as they once were, Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy's upcoming Prime Video adaptation of Fallout has generated a fair bit of excitement among gamers. Now, have a first look and details courtesy of Vanity Fair (via SFFGazette.com).

Just like in the games, a nuclear war breaks out across Earth in the year 2077 (which, for some reason, is heavily inspired by 1940s America) before the story jumps forward by 219 years to the post-apocalyptic wasteland which is left behind. Ella Purnell stars as Lucy, a character who leaves her subterranean vault and ventures out into a world fans of the Fallout series have spent hundreds of hours exploring across multiple video games. 

However, that doesn't mean there won't be new ground for even the most hardcore games to discover.

Todd Howard, the director of 2008's Fallout 3 and 2015's Fallout 4 and an executive producer at Bethesda Game Studios, reveals that the Fallout TV series will finally explore Vault Boy's origin; the wider story, meanwhile, will also fit into the franchise's larger mythology. 

"We view what’s happening in the show as canon," he explains. "That’s what’s great, when someone else looks at your work and then translates it in some fashion. I sort of looked at it like, 'Ah, why didn’t we do that?'"

As Lucy sets out to explore the world for the first time, she meets aspiring soldier Maximus (Aaron Moten), part of a group of brutal warriors known as the Brotherhood of Steel, all of whom are decked out in familiar power armour.  

Kyle MacLachlan, meanwhile, stars as Lucy's father, the "overseer" of Vault 33, Moisés Arias plays her brother, and Lost alum Michael Emerson is a researcher named Wilzig. However, the biggest surprise is that Walton Goggins is set to play a bounty hunter dubbed The Ghoul.

We'd expected him to be the show's lead protagonist. Instead, "The Ghoul is a gruesomely scarred roughrider who has a code of honor, but also a ruthless streak...the show occasionally flashes back to the human being he once was, a father and husband named Cooper Howard, before the nuclear holocaust turned the world into a cinder and transformed him into an undead, noseless sharp-shooting fiend."

In the Fallout games, the Ghouls are typically portrayed as little more than mindless cannon fodder, so this is an intriguing twist. Nolan says, "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."

Fallout is currently set to premiere on April 12, 2024, and, thanks to Prime Video, you can check out some first-look stills below. 

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TheFinestSmack
TheFinestSmack - 11/28/2023, 4:07 PM
Looks really good, surprisingly.
DaHULK2000
DaHULK2000 - 11/28/2023, 7:44 PM
@TheFinestSmack - "Put a chick in it and make her gay"....
TheFinestSmack
TheFinestSmack - 11/28/2023, 8:08 PM
@DaHULK2000 - LOL, we gotta see what they do with her. The actress is fine. But is the character gonna be gay, disabled and allergic to almonds?
DevilsDreams
DevilsDreams - 11/29/2023, 4:40 AM
@TheFinestSmack - it just looks a little too clean...
TheFinestSmack
TheFinestSmack - 11/29/2023, 7:21 AM
@DevilsDreams - Now that you mention it, it does look a bit clean. They could use a dust filter or something haha.
DevilsDreams
DevilsDreams - 11/29/2023, 8:08 AM
@TheFinestSmack - just smear some dirt over everything! haha.
It's like the front of the jumbo jet, ok it's a rough cut, but I'd expect to see some scoring, dents, some weathering, that kinda thing... especially in a post nuclear apocalyptic world where acid rain is a thing...
TheFinestSmack
TheFinestSmack - 11/29/2023, 8:50 AM
@DevilsDreams - Yeah the acid rain would just rust and eat away at all of that metal. What bugged me most about that jet...if they took the trouble to hoist it up to that rooftop, presumably as a place to dwell or whatever, why not level it out? It's leaning a whole damn lot.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 11/28/2023, 4:07 PM
Wow! Looks damn good.
marvel72
marvel72 - 11/28/2023, 4:08 PM
As long as they don't f*ck it like Paramount did Halo.
ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 11/28/2023, 4:11 PM
Yeah, definitely leaning on the optimistic side for this. The armor and Megaton City look great.
LadiesmanBumble
LadiesmanBumble - 11/29/2023, 1:23 AM
@ModHaterSLADE - It’s not based on the Fallout 3 storyline. The show’s its own standalone story.
PC04
PC04 - 11/28/2023, 4:13 PM
Looking forward to this!
CoHost
CoHost - 11/28/2023, 4:13 PM
IronMan616
IronMan616 - 11/28/2023, 4:14 PM
Netflix ruined Resident Evil, Hulu F*cked up Halo, I hope Prime or whoever is making this doesn't screw this one up.
mdwilliamson24
mdwilliamson24 - 11/28/2023, 4:18 PM
@IronMan616 - I know Amazon's track record isn't perfect, but the biggest reasons for hope are Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy as showrunners.
AmazingFILMporg
AmazingFILMporg - 11/28/2023, 4:19 PM
@IronMan616 -

Halo was [frick]ed up by paramount plus not Hulu💁
Taonrey
Taonrey - 11/28/2023, 5:49 PM
@IronMan616 - umm… resident evil in live action was ruined way before Netflix even sniffed the rights lol
Clintthahamster
Clintthahamster - 11/28/2023, 4:17 PM
Stills look great, and I love Ella Purnell and Kyle McLaughlin, so I'll check this out for sure.
BassMan
BassMan - 11/28/2023, 4:18 PM
Looks great, and the people behind Westworld are doing this so that gives me some optimism.
soberchimera
soberchimera - 11/28/2023, 4:53 PM
@BassMan - Westworld really dipped in quality after season 2, some people would argue it started going downhill after season 1...
marvel72
marvel72 - 11/28/2023, 5:10 PM
@soberchimera - It did seasons 3 & 4 were nowhere near as good.
JFerguson
JFerguson - 11/28/2023, 4:22 PM
Video game movies becoming the new breakthrough genre that CBMs once were?
Vigor
Vigor - 11/28/2023, 5:00 PM
@JFerguson - the people that grew up with videogames are finally the ones [old enough to be] making them
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 11/28/2023, 5:43 PM
@JFerguson - that is my expectation. CBMs are going the way of musicals, epics, westerns horror and animation. They've had their peak, and it's time for a new hot commodity.
BeNice123
BeNice123 - 11/28/2023, 4:36 PM
One my all time favs… it looks good, i hope its good…
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 11/28/2023, 4:40 PM
Looks real good but Red Skull is that you?…



Kidding aside , I like the cast and the creative team is interesting so looking forward to checking it out!!.
mdwilliamson24
mdwilliamson24 - 11/28/2023, 4:41 PM
Thankfully they went with a new story and setting.
Had they based it on, say, Fallout 3 all the game fans would be bitching about locations not looking exactly the same or characters acting differently than the game and any other precieved change that they personally didn't like.
Plus anyone whose played the game would basically already know the story.

I'd much rather get a fresh story, setting and characters that we know nothing about ahead of time and only hope it delivers a good Fallout experience.
Shivermetimbers
Shivermetimbers - 11/29/2023, 12:24 AM
@mdwilliamson24 - I agree with this. It looks straight out of one of the games without being based on a specific game. Perfect.
KaptainKhaos
KaptainKhaos - 11/28/2023, 4:53 PM
In an alternate earth, Walton Goggins is the perfect MCU Red Skull
Mixedsuperman
Mixedsuperman - 11/28/2023, 4:57 PM
Fire Marshall Bill.....
mountainman
mountainman - 11/28/2023, 4:57 PM
Baby Billy!
BritishMonkey
BritishMonkey - 11/28/2023, 5:21 PM
That looks pretty damn authentic.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 11/28/2023, 5:45 PM
"a nuclear war breaks out across Earth in the year 2077 (which, for some reason, is heavily inspired by 1940s America)"

Because it has an alternate history from the 1940s onward I believe. Think the right term is Atompunk.

But that aside, it looks great. But that's not everything. Todd Howard weighing in gives me confidence though.
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 11/28/2023, 6:50 PM
@bkmeijer1 - Watched my youngest playing the games (all of them) a LOT so may not be 100% up on the lore but always got the impression it was likely a 'what if the Cuban missile crisis went into full nuclear war' type scenario, certainly that the cold war was never cold and just escalated into silo's built and nukes dropped...

...and that the future setting is just the point radiation levels had dropped enough to be able to leave Vaults without full radiation suits.
EskimoJ
EskimoJ - 11/28/2023, 5:59 PM
🤞🏾 for this one.
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