Prime Video’s Fallout show is emerging from the Vault next April
The show comes from the duo behind Westworld and takes place in post-apocalypse California
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HBO’s live-action adaptation of the Last Of Us video game was a big hit, proving that video games are finally respectable enough to serve as the basis for prestige television, and now we know when Amazon is going to join in on that fun with its Fallout adaptation—though the idea of Fallout being prestige television seems odd, since it’s not exactly a deadly serious franchise like The Last Of Us often is. Anyway, the official account for the Prime Video series tweeted out a teaser today with mascot Vault Boy revealing a release date of April 12, 2024 for the premiere of the series. That’s relatively soon for a show we haven’t seen or heard anything about!
The series, reportedly a canonical part of franchise history (according to Variety), will take place in post-apocalyptic Los Angeles and center around the denizens of Vault 33—one of dozens of underground bunkers hidden around the United States that “saved” people from a nuclear war, though most of the Vaults were actually secret social experiments designed to see how people would react to, say, living in a VR simulation of ‘50s suburbia, or being surrounded by clones of the same guy, or some kind of Shirley Jackson thing where someone had to be sacrificed once a year. So you survive, hooray, but shit still sucks.
We don’t know what the deal is with Vault 33, but the series will star Walton Goggins as one of the series’ many irradiated ghouls (who often look scarier than they behave), along with Ella Purnell, Kyle MacLachlan, Xelia Mendes-Jones and Aaron Moten. It comes from Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan (who directed the first few episodes) and Lisa Joy, with Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner serving as writers and co-showrunners. Curiously, Variety referred to the series as a drama, but the games have always been deeply satirical and occasionally very wacky, so we don’t know if the show is going for something more traditionally dark or if Variety is just calling it a drama because it’s a show about a post-nuclear war wasteland full of Super Mutants and Mister Handy robots and hardscrabble societies that use old bottle caps as money.
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I’m not too hyped about it but Walton Goggins and Kyle MacLachlan might make it worthwhile.
I’m not optimistic but I do love Fallout, and Walton Goggins as a ghoul in the Wasteland is some of the most inspired casting I’ve seen in ages.
I was pretty meh on it myself, but seeing that note about Walton Goggins immediately changed my view. That dude is one of my favorite actors out there, and every show I’ve seen him in has been fantastic. And having him as a ghoul? What a fucking choice!
Yeah that’s the thing, he’s one of the best choices I can think of to play a ghoul.
Oh great. So we’ll get another Westworld where they go out of their way to be mysterious and clever for a few years, write themselves into a corner, and completely abandon it and tap out. Can’t decide whether it’s a shame or not that the Peripheral was killed off before they could screw it up.
Seriously, Lisa Joy and Nolan are even more overrated than JJ Abrams.
I hope it’s not like that but I’m not very confident that it won’t be.The Peripheral was good until I made the mistake of rereading the 2 books in the week between the second to last and last episodes. The books are so much better that reading them killed all desire I had to see the end.
Is JJ Abrams overrated? I can’t think of the last time his name came up in a positive context. Perhaps there was a time when he was but I feel like people are on to him now.
So we’ll get another Westworld where they go out of their way to be mysterious and clever for a few years, write themselves into a cornerLol… They had to pause production of SEASON ONE for a full year because they wrote themselves into a corner. Westworld was my prime example of showrunners who needed to be strapped into a chair, Clockwork Orange-style, and made to stare at the phrase “being deliberately vague is not the same as being clever” for days on end.
I felt like the little boy at the end of The Emperor’s New Clothes during S2:FANBOYS: “Wow, this is so incredibly deep and subtle and philosophical and high-brow and brave. Nolan is an unimpeachable genius.”ME: “This is vague bullshit that you guys like because you want to appear like you ‘get’ it, when there’s fuck-all to actually get.”It didn’t help that the writers spent all their spare time over on the Westworld subreddit, getting their dicks sucked/clits licked by the raging fandom who picked the twist in the first season – of course a thousand monkeys dire nerds working at a thousand keyboards were of course going to guess the plot if they kept punching their Massdrop mechanical keyboards long enough.And then they did it for S2 before S2 was even released, so Joy and Chris Nolan’s Brother rewrote it to the confusing, vague shitshow we got, just to impress a few hundred mouthbreathers in one of the sweatiest corners of the internet.
Nolan was absolutely phenomenal with PoI.It was only with Westworld that he ran off the rails after one season of greatness.
I can’t say I ever saw it, but the fact that Jim Caviezel was in it is an automatic Nope from me.
I agree that now it may be difficult to separate the actor from the role, but you’re really missing out.Which is what makes the faceplant WW did after S1 even more odd.
Well, why would you stop judging things you haven’t seen now?
Of course the Gary vault was a reference to this scene.
How much of it will be generated by AI?
Literally the only thing I know about this franchise is that they doxxed their entire fanbase over a tote bag, plus something about shitty rum. But I’m absolutely here for Nolan and Joy.
Nolan and Joy… Oh tidings of Nolan and Joy.
the world of the bethesda fallout games is completely devoid of a single original idea. everything, literally EVERYTHING in those games is a “reference” to another genre IP. awesome idea for a tv show!
You’re too stupid to have an opinion, be quiet.
Even Black Isle original Fallout was a rip off of Wasteland mixed with King Arthur, Mad Max and every fiction existed before them.
And even Wasteland wasn’t that original. It was relatively novel in terms of computer RPGs (which were almost entirely D&D style fantasy in the 1980s), but it obviously was inspired by post-apocalyptic tabletop RPGs like Gamma World and the Morrow Project.
The best part about the Fallout games is less the mysteries held within the Vaults, and more surviving and learning the Wasteland life. The show could be good if they prioritise a day/week/whatever in the lives of the various wasteland factions and keep the same humour that’s in the games…
Just started Twin Peaks: The Return, and this will obviously be a Kyle MacLachlan performance of equal talent.I’m cautiously optimistic! I hope they don’t try to make it too dark and gritty, though (at least tonally – kind of unavoidable content-wise). Fallout is at its best when its mixing serious themes with deeply silly humor, and any adaptation worth its salt should reflect that.
So you survive, hooray, but shit still sucks.This is my thing about doomsday preppers. Is a life spent eating canned peaches, only interrupted periodically to fend off marauding bandits, really a life worth worth working toward? I’ve told my friends that they’re welcome to try to survive, but to just set me up under a nice tree with a case of whiskey and a carton of cigarettes, and I’ll just wait for the mutant coyotes or whatever.
This is how my kids and I clown my ex-wife, who is an actual hoarder whose hoarding includes big-ass buckets of disgusting post-apocalyptic “food.” We will all be glad to just perish.