Amazon Prime Video Gives Thumbs Up To Fallout Day, Announces Premiere Date For Series Adaptation
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Amazon Prime Video has announced a release date for its TV series adaptation of the popular video game series Fallout. It comes as a way to mark Fallout Day, marking the date in 2077 that the game’s thermonuclear Great War began, kickstarting the game’s events. It joins HBO and Max's The Last of Us and Paramount+’s Halo in the video game adaptation realm of the streaming wars.
Fallout’s premiere date of April 12, 2024 in Amazon’s usual 240+ countries and territories came from a video set within a Pip Boy, the game’s wearable computer. The show has newly-launched social feeds, including a Twitter that tweeted out “PLEASE REMAIN CALM. An Important Dated Message Brought to You By Your Friends at Prime Video.” The show’s first footage-filled teaser is currently unreleased in a public capacity, but was showcased at Gamescom earlier this year. Bigger, publicly released teasers were promised for later, and there’s nearly six months of space to get those going. The series was originally announced in 2020.
The game and series’s environment is a harsh wasteland set against the previous generation’s utopian idea of a better world through nuclear energy. The series is Los Angeles-set, as wholly original as one can be set in a pre-established fictional universe, and is canon to the games and whatever other extended media is canon. Citizens must live in underground bunkers like Vault 33 to protect themselves from radiation, mutants and bandits after nuclear annihilation.
The series stars Yellowjackets’s Ella Purnell, The Righteous Gemstones and Invincible’s Walton Goggins, Leslie Uggams, Aaron Moten, Lost and Person of Interest’s Michael Emerson, Moisés Arias of Hannah Montana and The King of Staten Island, Kyle MacLachlan, Sarita Choudhury, Frances Turner, Dave Register, Zach Cherry, Johnny Pemberton, Rodrigo Luzzi, Annabel O’Hagan, and Xelia Mendes-Jones.
Developed and written by Westworld’s Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan who executive produce as part of Kilter Films on their Amazon overall deal, Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner serve as executive producers with them, as well as as writers and co-showrunners. Kilter Films’s Athena Wickham also executive produces along with Todd Howard for Bethesda Game Studios and James Altman for Bethesda Softworks. Amazon Kilter Films produce in association with the Bethesda companies. Nolan directed the first three episodes.
