FALLOUT Series Gets a Surprise Earlier Premiere Date on Prime Video
The premiere of the highly-anticipated Fallout series was originally supposed to be released on April 12th, but Prime video has announced that they’ve moved the release date up by two days!
You will now be able to watch all eight episodes of Fallout starting on April 10th, last 6pm! The surprise announcement was revealed in a new commercial for the series that aired during Monday’s NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship Game.
Series star Walton Goggins confirmed the news, encouraging fans to watch the series early in a video shared on social media. This special release of the series includes a live global fan premiere of the first episode on Prime Video, where fans can choose their faction and interact with others via a live chat function.
This sounds like it could be pretty cool for some fans! I’ve been really excited about watching this series, and I hope that it actually ends up being as great as it looks!
Fallout is the story of “haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. 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.”
Ella Purnell plays Lucy, an optimistic Vault-dweller with an all-American can-do spirit. Her peaceful and idealistic nature is tested when she is forced to the surface to rescue her father. Aaron Moten is Maximus, a young soldier who rises to the rank of squire in the militaristic faction called Brotherhood of Steel. He will do anything to further the Brotherhood’s goals of bringing law and order to the wasteland.
The world of Fallout is “one where the future envisioned by Americans in the late 1940s explodes upon itself through a nuclear war in 2077. In Fallout, the harshness of the wasteland is set against the previous generation’s utopian idea of a better world through nuclear energy. It is serious in tone, yet sprinkled with moments of ironic humor and B-movie-nuclear-fantasies.”
The story for the series is set in future post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, and it will tell an original story based on the Fallout games and this new story will be part of the canon of the games.
Goggins plays the Ghoul, a morally ambiguous bounty hunter who holds within him a 200-year history of the post-nuclear world. These three meet when chasing an artifact from an enigmatic researcher that has the potential to radically change the power dynamic in this world.
The series comes from Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy.