A Vault Dweller navigates a post-apocalyptic wasteland in
Fallout
, based on the bestselling gaming franchise.
Amazon Prime Video has dropped the full official trailer for
Fallout
, the streaming platform's forthcoming post-apocalyptic sci-fi series. It's based on the bestselling
role-playing gaming franchise
set in a satirical, 1950s-style future post-nuclear apocalypse. There's plenty for gaming fans to be pleased about, judging by the trailer, but casting national treasure Walton Goggins (
Justified
) as a gunslinging Ghoul was quite simply a stroke of genius.
The first
Fallout
RPG was released in 1997, followed by several sequels and spinoffs. According to the game's lore, modern civilization is destroyed in 2077 by a global nuclear war between the US and China. Survivors live in various underground vaults (fallout shelters). Each iteration of the game takes place somewhere across a post-apocalyptic US metro area and features a Vault Dweller—someone born and raised underground—as the protagonist. The first game takes place in 2161 and features a Vault Dweller from Vault 13, deep in the mountains of Southern California. The Vault Dweller must complete various missions to save the residents of Vault 13, which takes said protagonist to in-world places like Junktown; a merchant city called the Hub; and Necropolis, filled with Ghouls, i.e., humans badly mutated by exposure to nuclear radiation.
The series
was announced
in July 2020, with
Westworld
writers Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy serving as executive producers. In January 2022, it was
revealed
that Nolan would direct the first three episodes but that two other writers—Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner—would be the showrunners. Todd Howard, who directed several games in the franchise, is also an executive producer
and has said
the series is not an adaption of any particular game, but it is set within the same continuity. Per the official premise: