Walton Goggins cast in Amazon’s Fallout TV show
By Daniel Roman
We’ve known for a while now that Amazon is making a TV series based on the hit video game series Fallout, but it’s so early in production that little else has been announced. Will there be a vault? Will molerats scamper across the wasteland and deathclaws wreck settlements? Will any of the fan favorite characters from the games like Nick Valentine or Dogmeat appear?
Well, we still don’t know any of that stuff, but we do now know of at least one actor cast. Deadline reports that Walton Goggins has joined the production.
Goggins has been in tons of different genre shows and movies over the years, including Predators, Justified, Ant Man & The Wasp, and The Hateful Eight. He’s also currently lending his voice talents to Invincible as Cecil Stedman and can be seen alongside John Goodman in The Righteous Gemstones. With his wry sense of humor and affinity for somewhat crazy characters, Goggins is pretty much a perfect fit for Fallout, so consider us a bit more excited than we were yesterday.
Walton Goggins cast as a lead in Amazon’s Fallout show
Fallout is set in a post-apocalyptic future where nuclear power became the norm after World War II…which led to another nuclear war that turned the globe into an irradiated wasteland. Some people survived by living in underground vaults; others got lucky on the surface or were transformed by the nuclear landscape into something not quite human anymore.
No information has yet been revealed about Goggins’ role, but it’s believed that he’ll be playing a ghoul. Ghouls are people who were exposed to nuclear radiation and became skeletal-looking, long-lived mutants. Many ghouls are still sentient and have personalities just like a regular person, though at the far end of the spectrum they can go “feral” and basically become mindless monsters. We’re assuming that if Goggins is playing one he’ll be the former sort.
Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy are attached to produce the Fallout series, with Geneva Robertson-Dworet (Captain Marvel) and Graham Wagner (Silicon Valley) serving as showrunners. Fallout is shaping up to have a pretty exciting bunch of creatives attached to it, so we’ll be keeping an eye on this one.
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