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Amazon has unveiled the official trailer for Fallout, the upcoming post-apocalyptic series based on the hit video game franchise. The cinematic footage – which maintains the game’s expansive world-building and signature dark humour – sees vault dweller Lucy (Ella Purnell) struggle to adapt to the twisted and dangerous world of the irradiated wasteland and offers the first glimpse of Moldaver (Sarita Choudhury) and Ma June (Dale Dickey).
The more than three-minute trailer also reveals that the series will premiere all eight episodes exclusively on Prime Video on April 11, one day sooner than previously announced. It will be available to stream with an Amazon Prime subscription, which usually costs £8.99 a month or £95 a year and comes with a host of benefits like next-day delivery, Amazon Music Prime, Deliveroo Plus and free delivery on HelloFresh orders for a year – while Prime Video alone can be joined for £5.99 a month.
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Prime Video has billed Fallout as a “story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have.” It follows a brand-new original story set in the world of the immensely popular retro-futuristic video games.
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Its official synopsis reads: “Taking place 200 years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind – and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and highly violent universe waiting for them.”
Fallout stars Yellowjackets’ Ella Purnell as Lucy, an optimistic Vault Dweller from Vault 33 and the show’s protagonist, alongside The Hateful Eight’s Walton Goggins as a ruthless bounty hunter known as The Ghoul. Other stars include Twin Peaks’ Kyle MacLachlan as Hank – the Overseer of Vault 33 and Lucy’s father – and Emancipation’s Aaron Moten as Brotherhood of Steel soldier Maximus.
The series comes from Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, who have partnered with Fallout video game publisher Bethesda Game Studios. Nolan – the brother of Oppenheimer filmmaker Christopher Nolan – also directs the opening three episodes.
Walton Goggins as The GhoulIt’s fair to say that fans of the franchise have been impressed with the new trailer, with many taking to social media since it dropped to hail it as “absolutely incredible” and evoking the feeling of its source material. Writing on X, @Nukov_ said: “Absolutely guaranteed to binge this in one sitting.”
@dhardyx__ said: “This looks absolutely incredible! A dream come true for a fallout purest.” @awalkerofrealms said: “Gives me goosebumps.”
@Avenrise said: “I think the best thing you can ever say about an adaptation going into it is that it feels like the original. Boy does this feel like the Fallout we know and love.” @WhitneyWrath said: “I already need about 10 seasons of this.”
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