Amazon has released the official trailer for its debut Fallout TV show – and it invites you to a role at the end of the world, a day earlier than expected.
Released today (March 7), the Fallout The TV show’s latest teaser is packed with faithful nods to the source material, including the multi-genre tonality, world-building and retro-futuristic aesthetic that Bethesda’s iconic video game franchise is known for.
As fun as all that is, the new trailer for one of the most anticipated Prime Video shows of 2024 has two more delightful surprises in store. First, it will debut a day earlier than we thought Fallout‘s TV adaptation will release on Thursday, April 11 instead. And two, all eight episodes — a clear departure for Amazon, which typically debuts a new series with a two- or three-episode premiere — will be available on launch day. If these revelations don’t deserve a Vault Boy-style compliment, I don’t know what does.
The second teaser for Amazon Fallout live-action show comes three months after the first one came online. That December 2023 trailer, which opened the vault of Prime Video’s apocalyptically authentic series, showed the first official images and introduced us to the three protagonists: Lucy (Arcane‘s Ella Purnell), Maximus (Emancipation‘s Aaron Moten) and The Ghoul (Ant Man 2‘Walton Goggins). The first trailer also followed some early footage – official stills that said seven interesting things about Prime Video’s take on the Fallout franchise.
For everyone who has lived in an underground vault since then Fallout‘s TV show began production in January 2022, here’s a quick overview of the plot: “Fallout is the story of the haves and the have-nots in a world where there is almost nothing left to have. 200 years after the apocalypse, the friendly inhabitants of luxury bomb shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind – and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, cheerfully strange and deeply violent universe awaits them.
This 3-3 we celebrate Vault 33 and its outstanding residents, like Lucy. It’s a blast down there! pic.twitter.com/qARKwfbcrhMarch 3, 2024
Join the aforementioned acting trio Fallout are Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks), Moises Arias (The King of Staten Island), Michael Emerson (Lost), and Leslie Uggams (Deadpool) among other things. Jonathan Nolan, who helmed the similarly positioned sci-fi dystopia series Westworld for HBO, co-developed the show with wife and production partner Lisa Joy. Geneva Robertson-Dworet (Captain Marvel) and Graham Wagner (Silicon Valley) are the showrunners of Fallout.
Todd Howard, president of Bethesda Game Studios and co-creator of Fallout‘s critically acclaimed first-person shooter role-playing games, is one of several executive producers of the TV adaptation. Indeed, he is joined by Nolan, Joy, Robertson-Dworet, Wagner, James Altman and Athena Wickham.
Must be Amazon’s Fallout do you have enough to make it onto our list of the best Prime Video shows? I certainly hope so. I’m a big fan of the games and, after choosing FalloutWell, as one of the ten exciting shows I can’t wait to see in early 2024, I hope it isn’t nuclear bomb (sorry, sorry, not sorry) my apparent prescient ability to pick out top tier series before they are released.