The Fallout series is heading to Prime Video on April 11th, 2024 and you’ll be able to see every episode on release. The cast and crew sat down recently for a press conference to talk about the series. It included Todd Howard, Executive Producer and Director Jonathan Nolan, Series Creators and Showrunners Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner, and the stars of the series Ella Purnell and Aaron Moten. Also included to introduce the world premiere of the latest trailer for the series was Walton Goggins, but he wasn’t available live for the press conference.

Geneva and Graham had this to say about the story of the series, which is original and new, even though it contains some familiar feelings to the Fallout games.

It’s set in the world of Fallout, but it’s  a new story that comes, sort of, after the events we’ve  seen. So it really is, the show is built on like 25 years  of creativity and thinking and building. And we sort of thought the best thing to do is to  continue that, versus retread it. Because that’s sort of  what has worked with Fallout over the years. It’s traded hands, it’s changed, it’s been altered, and it’s a living  thing. And yeah, we kind of felt like we ought to take a  swing at trying to build a new piece on top of all of that.

Graham Wagner

Here’s what Ella Purnell had to say about her character in the series, Lucy.

So, Lucy is a Vault Dweller, and what excited me  about playing her was that she is so innocent and so naive  and obviously very privileged as well, like you’ve touched  on. It was exciting for me to start in that place. You  know, she’s essentially a newborn baby. She hasn’t had any  real life experiences. All she knows is what she was  taught and what she’s read in books that she has in the  vault. It’s limited. And then you put her on the  Wasteland, and, you know, what happens? What happens with that? That’s a really exciting  for me to start in.

Ella Purnell

Finally, in a taped message, here’s what Walton Goggins had to say about his character, The Ghoul.

I play The Ghoul in  Fallout. The Ghoul is, in some ways, the poet Virgil in  Dante’s Inferno. He’s the guide, if you will, through this  irradiated hellscape that we find ourselves in in this  post-apocalyptic world. He is a bounty hunter, an iconic  bounty hunter. He is pragmatic, he is ruthless, he has his  own set of moral codes, and he has a wicked sense of humor.  Much like me. [laugh] No, he’s a very, very, very  complicated guy, and to understand him, you have to  understand the person that he was before the war. He had a  name. His name was Cooper Howard, and he was a vastly  different person than the ghoul that you’ve seen so far. 

Over the course of the show, through his  experience back in the world before the nuclear fallout,  you will understand how the world was. And he is the  bridge between both these worlds.

Walton Goggins
The release date on this poster has since been updated to April 11th, 2024.

Fallout is shaping up to be one of the biggest video game adaptations ever, and in a landscape where shows like Twisted Metal and The Last Of Us are raising the bar, it’s going to need to be great to clear those series. Here’s hoping it does.

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