Amazon’s Fallout TV series isn’t rehashing the games’ story

Details about Amazon Video’s Fallout series continue to come at a very slow trickle, but Bethesda director Todd Howard gave the biggest reveal yet on a podcast on Wednesday: The show won’t follow any plot from the games.

Howard said that instead of repeating what fans saw and experienced in Fallout Wasteland’s Fallout Wasteland series, he would tell Lex Fridman, a podcaster, that the series will be a different story but still set in the same universe as the games.

“When people wanted to make it a movie, they wanted to tell the story of Fallout 3Tell the story Fallout 4,” Howard said. “For this, it was ‘Let’s do something that exists in the world of Fallout.’ It’s not retelling a game’s story. It’s basically an area of the map and like, Let’s tell a story here that fits in the world we built and doesn’t break any of the rules. It can reference things in the games, but isn’t a retelling of the games. It exists in the same world, but it’s its own unique thing, so it adds to it.”

While this isn’t a lot of information to go on, it is the latest and biggest bread crumb we’ve gotten so far about the series. Amazon previously only released one teaser picture for the series.

We know more about the people involved. The show is being created by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, the duo behind HBO’s Westworld. Howard says that Nolan is a lifelong fan. Fallout 3He loved the idea of creating this series and jumped at the chance to do so. Ella Purnell is one of several cast members we already know.Yellowjackets), Kyle MacLachlan (Twin PeaksWalton Goggins (Justified).

As for a release date, the Fallout series likely won’t arrive until late 2023, or even 2024.