Amazon announces release date for live-action Fallout series

Amazon Prime Video has been on a pretty good run lately, putting out a series of sci-fi/fantasy shows that have all found their audience. Those include an adaptation of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time book series and a spinoff of the subversive superhero show The Boys called Gen V. What are they going to do next?

Prepare for Fallout, a TV show based on the hugely popular series of role-playing video games from Bethesda. In the Fallout games, players emerge from underground vaults to explore a post-apocalyptic landscape torn apart by nuclear war. That sounds bleak, but the Fallout series has always been buoyed by its unique sense of style; the games have a 1950s-meets-Mad Max aesthetic, with lots of rockabilly songs and pin-up posters amid the wreckage of what used to be the United States.

How will that translate into a TV show? Amazon is leaving that up to Jonathan Nolan (brother of Christopher) and Lisa Joy, the husband-wife team behind shows like HBO’s Westworld (as well as Amazon’s own show The Peripheral, which has been cancelled). Do they have what it takes? We’ll find out on April 12, 2024, which Amazon has just announced as the premiere date:

Technically, I suppose they could be saying that they just have something important to announce on April 12, but I think the implication is clear.

Amazon is also working on a God of War TV show, so they’re going all-in on the new trend of studios adapting video games as TV shows. I can’t wait to see how this turns out.

Watch the trailer for Netflix’s Squid Game reality show, where (probably) no one is killed

Speaking of upcoming sci-fi shows (I realize this is a stretch, just roll with it), Netflix has just released a trailer for Squid Game: The Challenge, a reality show version of Squid Game, the most successful show in Netflix history.

Squid Game, you’ll recall, if about a group of poor people so desperate for money they’re willing to play a series of children’s games where all but one of them will die in hopes of winning a huge cash prize at the end. For the reality, that prize is $4.56 million, the largest prize in reality show history. But this time, nobody will die…we assume. That would be a very surprising, extremely illegal twist.

As you can see in the trailer, this does look a lot like Squid Game. Contestants will play Red Light, Green Light, run across that terrifying glass bridge, toss marbles and cut out shapes in sugar honeycombs, all challenges drawn directly from the show. We can assume that there will be a game of tug-of-war in there too, plus maybe a few original challenges. You’ve gotta keep the contestants on their toes, right?

Squid Game: The Challenge drops on Netflix on November 22 of this year.

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