Amazon’s TV adaptation of the Fallout video game franchise takes a fresh approach to the source material. Rather than reworking an existing storyline from one of the games (or multiple games), it will tell an original story. That means long-time Fallout fans won’t be spoiled for choice yet Falloutlike fans of another ambitious video game-to-TV adaptation, The last of usgoods.
“This is not a direct adaptation, this is an interpretation of the game,” star Walton Goggins told Polygon in a recent interview. In the series, Goggins plays Cooper Howard, who becomes The Ghoul. “It’s a different story, so I don’t know if my Ghoul, in this incarnation, ever existed in the (game) world.”
Fallout’s post-nuclear retro-futuristic setting, the factions that inhabit it, and the memorable cartoon iconography will be present. But the story beats will all be new.
Fallout Set (mostly) in the year 2296, ten years after the events of the most recent main game, Fallout 4. The TV series will also look back, to before the Great War that unleashed nuclear hell on the United States. Goggins’ Ghoul will inhabit both time periods and “bridge the past, before the bombs drop, into this post-apocalyptic landscape,” he said. “Over the course of the show, through his experiences in the world before the nuclear fallout, you will understand what the world was like.”
Graham Wagner, executive producer, writer and showrunner Fallout, has said that the show “is built on 25 years of creativity, thinking and building. We thought it was best to continue with that rather than revamp it, because that’s pretty much what has worked with Fallout over the years. It’s trading hands, it’s changed, it’s changed and it’s a living being. We felt like we should make an attempt to build a new piece on top of that.
Fallout will be populated with characters that feel familiar, even though their stories are new. Lucy (Ella Purnell) represents the optimism and naivete of the privileged Vault residents, who have lived a relatively peaceful existence, sheltered underground beneath the irradiated earth. Maximus (Aaron Moten) is an idealistic soldier in the militaristic Brotherhood of Steel, fighting to bring law and order to the wasteland. And Goggins’ Ghoul is still a mystery, “a bounty hunter who has roamed the wastelands for two hundred years,” he told Polygon.
How their storylines come together will mainly be a surprise to Fallout fans. And the TV show also won’t spoil what’s next for the Fallout game series, which for many is unlikely to see a new entry. a lot of year. In an interview with Den van GeekFallout series game director Todd Howard said: “Well, there goods some things where I said (to the showrunners), ‘Don’t do this, because we’re going to do that later Fallout 5. It was not the translation of an existing story. It was, ‘What would be next?’ It just happens to be a TV show.”
Fallout premieres April 11 on Prime Video. All eight episodes of the TV show will be released at once.