A new trailer for Prime Videos Fallout The TV series, released Thursday, gives us the best look yet at the show’s grim post-apocalyptic story — and all the funny things that will happen amid the suffering. We also get a better sense of who Walton Goggins’ Ghoul character is, both before and after the nuclear apocalypse that lays the foundation for Fallout.
The new Fallout trailer reveals that Goggins’ Ghoul was apparently a happy family man before the nuclear weapons dropped, and a slick salesman who sold space in the vaults where survivors took refuge. The Ghoul could also be an uneasy ally for Ella Purnell’s fun-loving Vault Dweller character, Lucy, who gets a harsh dose of reality during her journey through the wasteland of Los Angeles.
Lucy also gets some face time with Maximus (Aaron Moten), a young soldier in the Brotherhood of Steel, in the new Fallout trailer. Like Lucy, Maximus doesn’t seem to lack optimism, but his optimism focuses on the Brotherhood’s mission to bring law and order to the wasteland. Thursday’s trailer also offers the first glimpse of the characters Moldaver (Sarita Choudhury) and Ma June (Dale Dickey).
In a taste of the new Fallout In the trailer shown to the press on Wednesday, Goggins said in video comments that his Ghoul is akin to the poet Virgil in Dante’s Inferno. Goggins said his bounty hunter character serves as a “guide through this irradiated hellscape,” is pragmatic, ruthless, and has a wicked sense of humor. Before the war, when his character was called Cooper Howard, he was “a completely different person” and serves as the world’s “bridge between the worlds.” Fallout‘s pre- and post-nuclear holocaust.
Fallout executive producer/director Jonathan Nolan said during a press conference Wednesday that the tone of the TV series was the hardest thing to get right about the adaptation — right behind making the Brotherhood of Steel’s Power Armor suits look right in live action. He said the TV series, like the Fallout games, explores the end of the world with a sense of humor. “There is a thread of optimism woven into the show,” Nolan said. Co-showrunner Geneva Robertson-Dworet agreed and made the call Fallout a “fun post-apocalyptic story” that will explore the different factions of the retro sci-fi world.
Robertson-Dworet also called the Ghouls of the Wasteland “the most empathetic” faction, so expect to see a lot of Goggins and his irradiated mutant friends.
Fallout will premiere on Prime Video on April 11 – a day earlier than previously announced. All episodes disappear at once.