Amazon Prime Video has shared the first pictures from its 2024 TV adaption of the video game Fallout. The pictures from the hotly anticipated show feature Ella Purnell as Lucy and Walton Goggins as The Ghoul.
The streaming service previously announced that the series will air from April 12 having broken its silence in August to confirm Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy were behind it. Fallout has been in the works for more than three years after Amazon licensed the rights in 2020.
Like the video game series, which had its fourth instalment in 2015, the plot picks up 200 years after a nuclear apocalypse and profiles the “haves and have nots” in the new order.
London actress Ella Purnella, who is best known for Yellowjackets, will play Lucy - described by Amazon as an “idealistic vault dweller whose ideals are tested when people harm her loved ones”.
Walton Goggins, of Tomb Raider and The Hateful Eight, is shown minus his nose in promo photos as he plays The Ghoul, a bounty hunter. Aaron Moten is young soldier Maximus while Kyle MacLachlan plays Lucy’s father Hank. The only star IMDb lists as featuring in all eight of the first season’s episodes is Moises Arias.
Amazon Prime made its release date announcement on Fallout Day, October 23, the same day that the nuclear blast strikes in the game to all but end humanity.
Screenwriter and director Jonathan “Jonah” Nolan, brother of Oppenheimer director Christopher, told Vanity Fair that the situation reflects that of reality.
“The games are about the culture of division and haves and have-nots that, unfortunately, have only gotten more and more acute in this country and around the world over the last decades,” he said.
Aside from the first look at Purnella and Goggins, the stills show the Brotherhood of Steel army marching, an airship and a town of survivors that resembles a junkyard. A trailer was leaked at the end of October.
Vanity Fair reported that the plot will see the nice but naive Lucy forced into fighting for justice in this futuristic hellscape.
Nolan added: “Lucy is charming and plucky and strong…and then you see she’s confronted with the reality of, hey, maybe the supposedly virtuous things you grew up with are not necessarily that virtuous.
“If they are virtuous, they’re couched in circumstantial virtuousness. It’s a luxury virtue. You have your point of view because you never ran out of food, right? You guys were able to share everything—because you had enough to share.”
