First Images from the ‘Fallout’ TV Series

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

Preview:

The first images from the ‘Fallout’ TV adaptation have dropped.
It’s set in a post-apocalyptic world.
The show will hit Prime Video in April.

There seems to be no end to the current trend for video game adaptations, which makes sense given the success of recent titles such as ‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ and ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’ have shown.

Now here come Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy with a small screen version of popular title ‘Fallout’. Nolan and Joy are running the show alongside Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner, and Nolan directs the first three episodes.

What’s the story of ‘Fallout’?

Ella Purnell as Lucy 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’?

Walton Goggins as The Ghoul 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.

(L to R) Power Suit and Aaron Moten as Maximus in ‘Fallout.’ Credit: JoJo Whilden/Prime Video. Copyright: © AMAZON CONTENT SERVICES LLC.

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.

(L to R) Ella Purnell as Lucy and Kyle MacLachlan as Overseer Hank in ‘Fallout.’ Credit: Courtesy of Prime Video. Copyright: © AMAZON CONTENT SERVICES LLC.

Can you enjoy ‘Fallout’ the show if you’ve never played the game?

Power Armor Suits in ‘Fallout.’ Credit: Courtesy of Prime Video. Copyright: © AMAZON CONTENT SERVICES LLC.

There have been various incarnations of ‘Fallout’ across different platforms and formats, but if you’re a total newbie, will you still understand the show? Bethesda Game Studios (which currently producers the game) director and series executive producer Todd Howard said you can in a podcast interview last year:

“It’s not retelling a game story. It’s basically an area of the map. Let’s tell a story here that fits in the world that we have built, doesn’t break any of the rules, can reference things in the games, but isn’t a retelling of the games. [It] exists in the same world but is its own unique thing, so it adds to it. While also, people who haven’t played the games, who can’t experience how crazy cool ‘Fallout’ is, can watch the series.”