One of the globe’s most successful video game franchises steps into the world of streaming series. The new action drama “Fallout,” based on the best-selling role-playing games, premieres Friday, April 12, on Prime Video.
Set 200 years after an apocalyptic event, residents of luxury bunker communities venture out onto a planet that has changed beyond belief. Ella Purnell (“Yellowjackets”) stars as Lucy, a young woman determined to leave behind the safety of the only life she’s ever known as a vault dweller to survive on the other side of the shelter’s walls on her own.
Per a Prime Video press release, “Fallout” follows vault dwellers “forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind,” leaving them “shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and highly violent universe waiting for them.” Signature “action, tongue-in-cheek gore and a twisted, post-apocalyptic setting” carry over from the games to the series.
Starring in “Fallout” are Aaron Moten (“Next”) as the Brotherhood of Steel squire, Maximus; Walton Goggins (“The Righteous Gemstones”) as the mutated, immortal bounty hunter known as The Ghoul; Moises Arias (“The King of Staten Island,” 2020) as Lucy’s brother, Norm; Kyle MacLachlan (“Twin Peaks”) as Hank, Lucy’s father and the overseer of the vault; Michael Emerson (“Evil”) as wanderer Wilzig; Mike Doyle (“New Amsterdam”) as Mr. Spencer; Johnny Pemberton (“Superstore”) as Thaddeus; Cherien Dabis (“Mo”) as Birdie; Matty Cardarople (“Reservation Dogs”) as Huey; Dave Register (“Heightened,” 2023) as Chet; Rodrigo Luzzi (“Dead Ringers”) as Reg; and Annabel O’Hagan (“Dear Edward”) as Steph.
Frances Turner (“The Boys”), Leslie Uggams (“American Fiction,” 2023), Sarita Choudhury (“And Just Like That...”), Zach Cherry (“Severance”) and Xelia Mendes-Jones (“The Wheel of Time”) also star in as yet unnamed roles.
In the official teaser trailer for “Fallout,” Lucy steps over the vault’s threshold and into a grim wasteland. Half-buried, wind-worn skeletons of humans and structures are the only things poking out of the dunes as far as the eye can see, though dangers lurk everywhere.
By the light of a campfire, Wilzig does his best to prepare Lucy for what is ahead of her, telling her, “if you insist on staying, then you will have to adapt.” Adapting is the name of the game in “Fallout.” Humans have either adapted to the safety of the bunkers for generations or have been shaped physically and emotionally by the brutal, barren dystopia left outside. Not to mention the critters evolved to thrive in the desolation — cockroaches the size of cats, a mutant bear and a giant axolotl with fingers for teeth are just a few featured creatures in the teaser.
Jonathan Nolan (“Westworld”) serves as executive producer of “Fallout” — with Kilter Films partner Lisa Joy (“The Peripheral”) — and directed the first three episodes. Co-creators Geneva Robertson-Dworet (“Captain Marvel,” 2023) and Graham Wagner (“Portlandia”) also executive produce the series.
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