Earlier this week, we were finally treated to the first official trailer for Prime Video's series adaptation of Fallout. Based on the beloved action role-playing video game franchise, the series welcomes players to the post-apocalyptic wasteland and is filled with remarkable moments of action and suspense.
While we were only treated to a trailer, it definitely looks like a faithful adaptation of the video games. Leading the direction was Jonathan Nolan, who served as executive producer and directed the first three episodes of the season.
Nolan is an admitted fan of the Fallout franchise. In a roundtable discussion, he admitted that Fallout 3 "devoured about a year of my life."
His passion for the franchise is ultimately what helped in land into the director's chair for the series adaptation. And his approach in developing the show wasn't to make something that would please fans of the videos, but simply to make the show he wanted to make.
I don't think you really can set out to please the fans of anything, or please anyone other than yourself. I think you have to come into this trying to make the show that you want to make it and trusting that as fans of the game, you know, we would find the pieces that were essential to us about the games and try to do the best version of those that we can. I think, you know, it's kind of a fool's errand to try to figure out how to make people happy in that way. You gotta make yourself happy. And I've made myself very happy with the show.
Thankfully, with Nolan already being a fan of the Fallout games, his familiarity with and fondness of the franchise led to an adaptation that seems authentic to the tone and style of the video games. From the dark humor and the nostalgic music to the dramatic moments and expansive world-building that the games are known for, Prime Video's Fallout looks to have captured the spirit of what the video games are all about.
Based on one of the greatest video game series of all time, Fallout is the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. 200 years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind — and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird and highly violent universe waiting for them.
All eight episodes of Fallout will debut on Prime Video at once on April 11. In addition to directing the first three episodes, Nolan also served as executive producer alongside Lisa Joy. The series stars Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten, and Walton Goggins.