Amazon releases first look at Fallout TV show

Amazon Prime shared the first image from its upcoming Fallout TV show on its Twitter page Tuesday. Take a look:

Fallout is a video game franchise set in a post-apocalyptic America that was destroyed after a global nuclear war. Although the games take place in the future, there is a 1950s Americana backdrop mixed in with science fiction tropes and dark humor. It is unclear if the TV show will be using any of these elements, but the new image does show the inside of a vault (bomb shelter), which is a franchise staples. Sometimes generations of people live inside of these vaults without ever leaving.

Walton Goggins and Ella Purnell are set to star in the series in unspecified roles. The Fallout games do not follow the same primary characters but do carry over groups, factions and ideas. Westworld creators Jonathon Nolan and Lisa Joy are serving as showrunners.

Westworld creators making a Fallout show for Amazon

The Fallout games have been made by Bethesda games studios since 2004. Bethesda director Todd Howard recently appeared in a promotional video for the franchise’s 25th anniversary. In the video, Howard says that multiple Fallout movie ideas were rejected by Bethesda in the past because they “weren’t the right fit.” Howard also said that Jonathon Nolan has always been a personal favorite candidate of his to helm a live-action Fallout project.

Nolan also turns up in the video. When asked how he came across the franchise, he said, “Well several years ago I decided I was going to write the next great American novel. And then a friend gave me a copy of Fallout 3. Now I work in television.”

No official date has been given for the Fallout show, but the video games take a notoriously long time to develop.

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