Prime Video’s FALLOUT Series Needed The Ghoul ‘To Be Kind of Hot’

Video game fans have been safely enjoying the excitement/terror of a post-nuclear wasteland since 1997. That’s when Fallout and its ’50s-era Cold War aesthetic first came to stores. Since then countless sequels and spinoffs have turned the game into one of genre’s most successful franchises. Now Fallout is ready to conquer another medium entirely. It’s getting its very own show from Amazon. What kind of story can gamers expect from the adaptation? Who’s behind it and who will star on it? And when will we get a chance to see it?

Recently, we got our first good looks at the characters that will populate Prime Video’s Fallout. Additionally, the series’ creators delved deep into what we could expect from this new video game adaptation series. Speaking to Vanity Fair, they revealed more about the world and story of the Fallout show.

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Of special interest to many fans out there since the release of Fallout‘s first-look images is the character of the Ghoul. The Vanity Fair article shares, “The Ghoul is a gruesomely scarred roughrider who has a code of honor, but also a ruthless streak. He is the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly all rolled into one. He’s also quite a survivor—having existed for hundreds of years. The show occasionally flashes back to the human being he once was, a father and husband named Cooper Howard, before the nuclear holocaust turned the world into a cinder and transformed him into an undead, noseless sharp-shooting fiend.”

Walton Goggins plays The Ghoul, a seemingly immortal gunslinger who has been unnaturally preserved by radiation poisoning. All three characters are in pursuit of an artifact that could change the balance of power in the series.

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— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) November 28, 2023

Show creator Jonathan Nolan notes, “He becomes our guide and our protagonist in that [older] world, even as we understand him to be the antagonist at the end of the world.” But, of course, The Ghoul won’t look as ghoulish as he does in the games. Prosthetics designer Vincent Van Dyke shares, “I need to be able to see Walton and his performance, he needs to look like a Ghoul from the game, and he needs to be kind of hot.” We say, mission accomplished.

📍 Vault 33
Location: Los Angeles

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— Prime Video (@PrimeVideo) August 23, 2023

Of course, while the series will sometimes depart from the Fallout games in certain ways, it will also add canonical lore to them. Fallout‘s “Vault Boy” iconography, for instance, will appear in the Prime Video series, but we’ll learn even more about this aspect of the world. Vanity Fair reveals, “Vault Boy not only appears in the show, but the imagery even gets an origin story (which we won’t spoil here).” Whatever it is, it’s approved by Todd Howard, who directed Fallout 3 and Fallout 4 and is an executive producer at Bethesda Game Studios, which develops the Fallout games. He notes, “That was something that they came up with that’s just really smart.” We’ll have to wait and see what the Vault Boy origin story entails, but we definitely feel excited for more of these kinds of inter-genre collaborations.

Here’s everything we know about Prime Video’s Fallout series so far.

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Prime Video’s adaptation will share the same name as the original game, Fallout.

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Prime Video has released an official synopsis for the show, setting us up for what’s to come. It reveals, “Based on one of the greatest video game series of all time, Fallout is the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. 200 years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind — and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and highly violent universe waiting for them.“

Additionally, we know that the series is “set in the future post-apocalyptic Los Angeles.” It will also tell an “original story based on Fallout that will be part of the canon of the games.” 

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The first look at the show featured a glimpse at the franchise’s all-new Vault 33. And more recent looks have revealed the main characters of the series including Walton Goggins’ The Ghoul, Ella Purnell’s Lucy, Aaron Moten’s Maximus, and Kyle MacLachlan’s Overseer Hank.

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Fallout comes from Bethesda Game Studios, Bethesda Softworks, and Kilter Films. The latter is the production company of executive producers Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan, creators of HBO’s Westworld.

Writers Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner will also serve Fallout co-showrunners and executive producers. Nolan directs the first three episodes.

Fallout‘s Cast

The show stars: Ella Purnell (Yellowjackets), Walton Goggins (The Hateful Eight), Aaron Moten (Emancipation), Moisés Arias (The King of Staten Island), Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks), Sarita Choudhury (Homeland), Michael Emerson (Person of Interest), Leslie Uggams (Deadpool), Frances Turner (The Boys), Dave Register (Heightened), Zach Cherry (Severance), Johnny Pemberton (Ant-Man), Rodrigo Luzzi (Dead Ringers), Annabel O’Hagan (Law & Order: SVU), and Xelia Mendes-Jones (The Wheel of Time). 

Fallout‘s Release Date

Prime Video celebrated the 26th “Fallout Day” by announcing when the series will premiere via a Pip-Boy-style message. The show begins its post-apocalyptic adventure on April 12, 2024.

PLEASE REMAIN CALM. An Important Dated Message Brought to You By Your Friends at @PrimeVideo. pic.twitter.com/yyaFynVjAK

— FALLOUT⚡️ (@falloutonprime) October 23, 2023

That’s a lot closer than it sounds, which means we should start getting trailers and more information soon, too. When we do you’ll find everything you need to know about Prime Video’s Fallout right here.

Originally published on October 23, 2023.

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