Amazon’s live-action Fallout series will premiere on Prime Video on April 12th, 2024.
The date was revealed in a short animated video posted to social media, although no actual footage from the show was featured.
PLEASE REMAIN CALM. An Important Dated Message Brought to You By Your Friends at @PrimeVideo. pic.twitter.com/yyaFynVjAK
— FALLOUT⚡️ (@falloutonprime) October 23, 2023
Amazon’s Fallout is an adaptation of Bethesda’s popular open-world role-playing video game series of the same name. It’s been adapted by Westworld‘s Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy and stars Walton Goggins (Justified), Ella Purnell (Arcane) and Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks).
Rather than be based on any particular Fallout game, however, the series will draw inspiration from the series’ post-apocalyptic settings to depict the aftermath of a nuclear war in the year 2077.
The last Fallout game to be released was 2018’s polarizing Fallout 76, while Bethesda Game Studios’ main Fallout creative team, led by Todd Howard, went on to work on this year’s Starfield. Howard also serves as an executive producer on Amazon’s series.
Fallout is the latest in an ever-growing list of video game adaptations. On the big screen, Universal saw massive success this year with The Super Mario Bros. Movie, which grossed well over $1 billion to become the third highest-grossing animated film of all time. Similarly, HBO’s The Last of Us, based on the eponymous PlayStation games, became one of the network’s most popular shows and racked up a slew of Emmy nominations. Other notable adaptations in the past few years include movies like Pokémon: Detective Pikachu, Sonic the Hedgehog and its sequel and Gran Turismo and shows like Netflix’s Castlevania, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners and Arcane and Paramount+’s Halo.
Fallout also isn’t Prime Video’s only upcoming video game adaptation; the streamer is also developing a God of War series based on the PlayStation action game series of the same name.
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