Amazon’s Fallout TV series: Everything we currently know

The long-awaited Fallout TV Series seems to be finally coming together, much like the worn pieces of an armor suit. The post-apocalyptic action series RPG has been teased since summer 2020. However, there have been several updates to the live action version of it over the last few months. Ella Purnell was recently cast.Yellowjackets, Army of the DeadWalton Goggins plays the lead role (The Righteous GemstonesVariety reported that he was a.

There are not many details available about the series’ plot. However, it is well-known that the series is set in a retro-futuristic alternative future, ten years after the U.S. and China have declared war on each other. Whether the series will take place within the same continuity as the games or adopt a new timeline (à la the “Silver Timeline” of Paramount Plus’ Halo series).

With that being said, here’s everything we currently know about the live-action Fallout television series.

Amazon Prime will offer the streaming of Fallout TV on its website

As revealed through the series’ initial teaser trailer, the live-action Fallout TV series is a co-production between Amazon Studios and Westworld creator’s Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s Kilter Films. The series, officially marketed as an “Prime Original,” will stream on Amazon Prime Video.

“Fallout is an iconic global franchise, with legions of fans worldwide and a rich, deeply compelling storyline that powers it. And Jonah and Lisa are the perfect storytellers to bring this series to life,” Amazon Studios COO and Co-Head of Television Albert Cheng said in a press release. “We’re thrilled to join with Bethesda to bring Fallout to television.”

The pilot episode will be directed by Jonathan Nolan, Westworld executive producer and creator.

In January Variety reported that Jonathan Nolan, who would be executive producing the Fallout TV series alongside his collaborator and wife Lisa Joy, would also direct the series’ first episode. They have previously worked together on other projects. WestworldThey also created the television version, titled.

“Fallout is one of the greatest game series of all time,” Joy and Nolan said in a statement at the time. “Each chapter of this insanely imaginative story has cost us countless hours we could have spent with family and friends. So we’re incredibly excited to partner with Todd Howard and the rest of the brilliant lunatics at Bethesda to bring this massive, subversive, and darkly funny universe to life with Amazon Studios.”

The writer of 2018’s Tomb Raider and the executive producer of Portlandia will be helming the series

Joy and Nolan Joy will also be producing the executive producer. FalloutShow, and the show’s actual showrunner will be Geneva RobertsonDworet or Graham Wagner. Robertson-Dworet is a screenwriter whose previous credits include co-writing the screenplay for 2018’s Tomb Raider starring Alicia Vikander and 2019’s Captain Marvel starring Brie Larson. Wagner’s credits include several notable shows including The Office Portlandia Silicon Valley.

Walton Goggins has also been cast alongside Ella Purnell as one of the leading characters of the series.

Variety reports Ella Purnell was (Yellowjackets, Star Trek: ProdigyA lead role has been given to ), in Fallout TV’s upcoming series. Walton Goggins (Justified, The Righteous GemstonesThe series also has a leading role in the casting of ),

While precise details are still unknown regarding Goggins and Purnell’s roles, Variety claims that Goggins will play a Ghoul, one of the human characters horribly disfigured by exposure to radiation in the Fallout universe, while Purnell’s character is described as, “upbeat and uncannily direct with an all-American can-do spirit [with] an intensity in her eyes says she might just be a tiny bit dangerous.”