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Fallout series announces Prime Video premiere date
Get your Pip Boy ready and mark your calendars, because the Fallout-inspired live-action series has a premiere date and is set to debut next year.
October 23rd is a very special date for Fallout fans. In video game lore, it’s the day the bombs fell and the United States fled to the Vault. But in our reality, it’s the day Prime Video announced the premiere date of the upcoming live-action series.
Through a short promotional video released on social media, we see the beginning of one of the Pip-Boy terminals. There it is Vault Boy himself, who is responsible for displaying the premiere date: April 12, 2024. You can watch the video below:
A series that will be part of the game lore
The Fallout series project was announced in July 2020, and since then the process has been one in which fans have had to wait. It was not until January 2022 that the series showed signs of life again and it was announced that it was in production with Geneva Robertson-Dworet (Captain Marvel writer) and Graham Wagner (Portlandia and Silicon Valley co-executive producer) as showrunners and Jonathan Nolan, co-creator of HBO’s Westworld, directing the pilot. Todd Howard, executive producer at Bethesda Game Studios, is also involved in the development as an executive producer.
While some cast members were announced in 2022, it was almost a year ago, during Fallout’s 25th anniversary celebrations, that we got our first enigmatic official image. The cast of the series so far includes Ella Purnell (Yellowjackets), Walton Goggins (The Hateful Eight), Aaron Moten (Emancipation), Moisés Arias (The King of Staten Island), Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks), Sarita Choudhury (Homeland), Michael Emerson (Person of Interest), Leslie Uggams (Deadpool), Frances Turner (The Boys), Dave Register (Heightened), Zach Cherry (Severance), Johnny Pemberton (Ant-Man), Rodrigo Luzzi (Dead Ringers), Annabel O’Hagan (Law & Order: SVU), and Xelia Mendes-Jones (The Wheel of Time).
More video game franchises on the way
Fallout is part of a group of new video game-inspired adaptations coming to the small screen. While this year we saw the success of The Last of Us on HBO and the arrival of Twisted Metal on Peacock, in the future we can look forward to Horizon Zero Dawn on Netflix and God of War on Prime Video.