‘Fallout’ TV Adaptation Launches First Trailer

Preview:

Following the first images, the ‘Fallout’ trailer is online.
The series is set in a post-apocalyptic world of brutality and chaos.
Prime Video launches the show in April.

Prime Video is hoping that its ambitious adaptation of the ‘Fallout’ series of video games will be drawn into the current success trend of games turned into movies and shows.

And with ‘Westworld’ duo Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy in charge, hopes are high for this one.

The first trailer has arrived, promising plenty of post-apocalyptic action and some fun new characters to meet.

What’s the story of ‘Fallout’?

Walton Goggins as The Ghoul in 'Fallout.' Credit: Courtesy of Prime Video. Copyright: © AMAZON CONTENT SERVICES LLC.

Adapted from the massively popular video game ‘Fallout’ is the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have.

Two-hundred 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.

Who’s who in ‘Fallout’?

Ella Purnell as Lucy in 'Fallout.' Credit: Courtesy of Prime Video. Copyright: © AMAZON CONTENT SERVICES LLC.

While this first look offers glimpses at iconic ‘Fallout’ elements such as the Vaults, airborne carriers the Vertibirds and Power Suits, it’s also focused on some of the characters, including:

Ella Purnell as 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 as 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 as The Ghoul. The Ghoul survives the Wasteland as a bounty hunter. He is pragmatic, ruthless, and hides a mysterious past.

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

Jonathan Nolan on the differences between the game and the show

(L to R) Jonathan Nolan and Ella Purnell on the set of 'Fallout.' Credit: JoJo Whilden/Prime Video. Copyright: © AMAZON CONTENT SERVICES LLC.

Here’s what Nolan said during a roundtable interview at CCXP in Brazil:

’It’s a very different mode of storytelling. One of the things I’m most excited about is telling an ensemble story and coming at it from these three perspectives. It was, to me, kind a brilliant hack for how you present that role-playing game mechanic of the games, which is you, as that vault dweller, can be anyone. They can look like anyone and can make any choices they want, which is not a luxury you can afford the audience when you’re telling them a linear story. So, having three perspectives, having Ella’s character and Aaron’s character and Walton’s characters occupy these very different corners of the fallout universe gave us a chance to encompass some of the ambition of the games, not just in terms of world building, but in terms of morality and in terms of the gray area. We talked a lot about ‘The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly,’ which is one of my very favorite films, and so that was a great touchstone for us as we sort of embarked on the journey.”