New Fallout series
is a very anticipated Amazon Prime show based on the ‘post-apocalyptic role-playing action game’ created by Tim Cain in 1997. The premise of the show is set in a retro-futuristic world that is influenced by the post-war culture of the 1950s United States.
The live-action adaptation was announced back in July 2020 with the names of the people who will be directing it and to make the show as similar to the game as they can. The Westworld writers Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy are the executive producers of the show. It was also revealed that Nolan will be directing the first three episodes of the show.
Todd Andrew Howard, the serving director and producer of Bethesda Game Studios has stated that the Fallout series will not follow the storyline of one particular fallout part but in fact “it is set within the same continuity”
Even if the viewers are not aware of the game series, Fallout is expected to be an adventurous run for the Show watchers with its amazing shots and physical effects. The game series consisted of some insane VFX and animations that should have been a hard road for the makers to follow but thanks to Jonathan Nolan who impressed Ella Purnell (the protagonist of the fallout 2024). Ella shared in a press conference that Nolan preferred physical effects rather than using green screens, CGI, and loads of VFX. She said, “You get to really work with the practical, not guys in green leotards”
History of The Fallout Game:
The first Fallout Game was developed by Black Isle Studios in 1997, after releasing the second installment in the franchise Interplay Entertainment had to shut down Black Isle and later on continued the Fallout franchise for Xbox and Play Station. Bethesda Studios owns the rights to the Fallout game franchise.
There are many parts including spinoffs in the series like Fallout 1 (1997), fallout 2 (1998), fallout 3 (2008), Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steels (2001), and many more.
Fallout 3 became controversial because of some visuals and references in the game, Japan was one of the countries where the game had to go under a vigorous censorship process to minimize the depiction of drug use. Many editing changes were made especially to address ‘the atomic detonation in populated areas.’
Casting of The Fallout 2024:
Bethesda Studio’s Fallout 2024 stars Ella Purnell as the primary protagonist who plays Lucy, Walton Goggins as the mysterious Bounty Hunter ‘The Ghoul’, the emancipation actor Aaron Motion plays ‘the Maximus’ who is a member of the Brotherhood of the Steel.
Along with them the show also consists of a stellar star cast including Kyle MacLachlan, Moises Aries, Johnny Pemberton, Xelia Mendes-Jones, and many more.
Breaking down the Fallout Trailer:
Fallout takes the concept from the game where 200 years after a nuclear war set in a wasteland where Lucy the primary protagonist leaves the walls of ‘Vault 33’ to go into the above lands which is nothing but what’s left of the remaining Los Angeles after the nuclear war. According to the game, modern civilization is destroyed after a global war between the US and China. Survivors start to live in different vaults in underground.
The trailer begins with Walton Goggins introducing the vaults made by the working men and telling people that they can be a hero by purchasing it “because if the worst should happen tomorrow, the world is gonna need you to build a better day after.”
Despite getting several warnings Lucy, a walt dweller leaves and asks a fellow old lady to tell her about everything that happened in the last 200 years. She is surprised as she thought all the vault dwellers were dead. The moment she steps out of the vault, she is constantly followed by those who are trying to kill her. She even meets a robot that politely tells her, “I am simply going to harvest your organs”. She encounters various people some of them might be her allies but some are going to kill her.
