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Fallout Is About ‘What Happens When You Outsource The Survival Of The Human Race’, Says Jonathan Nolan – Exclusive Image

Prime Video's adaptation of the Bethesda games will retain their satirical streak. Read more at Empire.

Alongside all the mutant mayhem, the terrifying monster brawls, and the ‘just one more hour’ gameplay, the Fallout games have always come with a hefty dollop of satire – whether it’s the winking aesthetic steeped in ’50s Americana, or the pointed notion of what exactly goes down inside Vault-Tec’s underground shelters. And while the upcoming Fallout streaming series – created by Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet, with extra producing power from Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy – isn’t necessarily going to be a straight adaptation of the games (choose-your-own-path RPGs aren’t necessarily built for that), it’s going to retain not just the monsters and the mutations, but that streak of dark humour too. The series is set to follow three predominant threads to explore Fallout ’s irradiated world – one as Ella Purnell’s Lucy (seen in the exclusive image above) leaves the confines of her vault to go above ground; one following Aaron Moten’s Maximus, a member of metal warriors the Brotherhood Of Steel surviving in the scorched Earth; and Walton Goggins’ noseless former cowboy simply known as ‘The Ghoul’.

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