Prime Video's FALLOUT Series Will Use M*A*S*H Inspired Storytelling
Prime Video’s upcoming series adaptation of the hit Fallout game looks like it’ll be a pretty damn cool show, and a lot of fans seem like they’re pretty excited about it. After watching the trailer, I think the creative team managed to capture the visual style and tone of the game. I’m also very interested in the new story that it will tell, a story that is unique to the series and isn;’t a rehash of something we’ve already seen in the games.
During a recent interview with Empire, executive producer Jonathan Nolan talked about the storytelling aspect of the series and revealed that it was inspired by the classic series M*A*S*H.
Nolan explained that the series is “what happens when you outsource the survival of the human race.” He went on to add, “Just as M*A*S*H gets to talk about Vietnam through the lens of the Korean War, we get to talk about the mess we’re in now through the lens of… ‘What if everybody just gets on with it and destroys the f –king world?’”
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.”
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 series is set in future post-apocalyptic Los Angeles it will tell an original story based on the Fallout games and this new story will be part of the canon of the games.
The series comes from Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, and it stars Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten, Walton Goggins, and more.
When talking about the three main characters of the series, co-creator Graham Wagner explained that they are looking for the same thing. “We talked a lot about The Good, The Bad And The Ugly. That’s three characters in search of a box of gold, so we asked ourselves, ‘What’s the gold in this world?’” Tune in for the answer. Anyone got a Pip-Boy handy?
Fallout is set to arrive on Prime Video on April 12th, 2024.