This ultra-popular video game is becoming a science fiction series that fans absolutely won't want to miss. This is the big streaming release of the week.
Adaptations of video games into television series are on the rise. After The Last of Us, this is another classic which is entitled to its rereading in several episodes. For fans, but also for others, it is one of the unmissable events of the month of April which promises to create an event when it is released. The plot of the series is slightly different from that of the various games released since the end of 1997, but is enough to make you salivate.
The plot takes place 200 years after the apocalypse, as two worlds collide: the Vault, in which some of the richest inhabitants are sheltered in bunkers, and the Wastelands, the irradiated world, particularly hostile. At a press conference, the creator of the series, Geneva Robertson-Dowret, assured that the series had a “particular tone and mixes action, comedy, and the strange” with “incredibly innovative” themes. . For Jonathan Nolan (Westworld), also at the origin of this production, it “dares to look the world in the face and evokes the end of the world with a certain sense of humor”.
You probably recognized it, it is the video game Fallout which is adapted here for the small screen. Since 1997, this RPG video game series has been very popular on PC. Several episodes have been released over the last 20 years, including the unmissable Fallout 3 (2004) and the last, Fallout 76, dating from 2018. This video game saga takes as its setting the United States ravaged by a global nuclear war, which seen the appearance of mutated creatures.
To adapt Fallout into series, the showrunners (including Jonathan Nolan, to whom we owe Westworld, but also Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner) chose to follow several characters: Lucy, a naive and idealistic inhabitant of the Vault, who seeks to go to the surface in the hope of saving his father; Maximus, a soldier of the Brotherhood of Steel faction, who intends to bring order to the wastelands; Ghoul, a mysterious bounty hunter who has managed to survive all these years in this postapocalyptic world.
In the casting, there are familiar faces from the small and big screen that viewers will be able to recognize: Ella Purnell, seen in Yellowjackets, plays Lucy, while Walton Goggins, unforgettable in The Bastard Eight, plays Ghoul. Kyle MachLachlan from Twin Peaks and Aron Moten from Emancipation are also in the cast. Consisting of eight episodes of approximately one hour, the Fallout series is released in its entirety on Prime Video, Amazon's subscription streaming platform, on April 11, 2024.
