Today marks the 26th anniversary of Fallout Day, the day in the video game franchise Fallout where nuclear war enveloped the world and set the stage for the franchise’s post-apocalypse wasteland. To honour the occasion, Bethesda Game Studios and Amazon Studios have announced the Fallout TV series from Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy will premiere April 12th, 2024.
The first Fallout game was released in 1997 and several more installments have been released, the most recent being the prequel Fallout 76. It has become one of the biggest video game properties and Bethesda is developing a fifth entry in the main series, though development will fully begin after the game studio completes The Elder Scrolls VI.
Fallout will take place within the franchise’s canon, but will tell an original story rather than be a straight adaptation of any of the games. Bethesda director and executive producer Todd Howard previously shot down any adaptations of Fallout 3 or Fallout 4, saying “Let’s tell a story here that fits in the world that we have built, doesn’t break any of the rules, can reference things in the games, but isn’t a retelling of the games.”
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Fallout will star Ella Purnell (Yellowjackets), Walton Goggins (Justified), Aaron Moten (Emancipation), Moisés Arias (The King of Staten Island), Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks), Sarita Choudhury (Homeland), Michael Emerson (Person of Interest), Leslie Uggams (Deadpool), Frances Turner (The Boys), Dave Register (Heightened), Zach Cherry (Severance), Johnny Pemberton (Ant-Man), Rodrigo Luzzi (Dead Ringers), Annabel O’Hagan (Law & Order: SVU) and Xelia Mendes-Jones (The Wheel of Time).
Geneva Robertson-Dworet (Tomb Raider) and Graham Wagner (Silicon Valley) will be showrunners, writers and executive producers. Nolan and Joy executive produce through their Kilter Films alongside Athena Wickham with Nolan having directed the first three episodes of the series. Bethesda’s Howard and James Altman will also executive produce.
Fallout will premiere April 12, 2024.
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