After three long years since its initial unveiling, Prime Video, Amazon’s subscription streaming service, has announced that the upcoming adaptation of the monolith franchise from Bethesda Game Studio’s, Fallout, will premiere next year.
The new series will be set around a never-before-discussed vault in Los Angeles, California: Vault 33, with its creators revealing the show will stay true to the games but with an original story.
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Overall details on the series are extremely limited, what we do know is that Bethesda Game Studios is deeply involved in the production of the show.
During a guest appearance on the Lex Fridman Podcast, Todd Howard mentioned that despite many well-known creatives reaching out to the studio to create movie adaptations of the games, particularly Fallout 3, he simply was not sure of cutting down the story of the open-world game into a two-hour experience.
“With the advent of television, in terms of what it’s become nowadays with big budget TV series, it came up again,” Howard said, sharing that Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, both credited for Westworld, are behind the new series, have been doing “such an incredible job” and fans are going to be “blown away” with the detail.
Howard also assured us that the upcoming Amazon series would “not be a retelling of a game story”, but instead would take place in a separate area of the game’s world map.
“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,” Howard said.
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Ishvan Pely, Art Director of Bethesda Game Studios, also said he was “blown away” with how much the television show has stuck to Bethesda’s original visions and designs.
Speaking during Prime Video’s ‘Beyond The Game’ Fallout video, Pely said it was “reassuring” to see Bethesda was “correct” in its approach to the series and that is staying consistent.
The last teaser Prime Video released was in October of 2022, where a still from the show was posted depicting the entrance of Vault 33, and four characters who could not be directly identified.
Cast members announced so far include Twin Peak’s Kyle MacLachlan, Arcane’s Ella Purnell, as well as Kyle MacLachlan, Xelia Mendes-Jones, Aaron Moten, and Walton Goggins.
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It’s safe to say that I am sufficiently hyped for another amazing series to binge, and for the world of Fallout to be coming to life in such a way that we haven’t seen before.
