If there’s one television (or, well, watched-primarily-on-television) event that we’re hyped for in 2024, it’s the big-budget adaptation of the Fallout video games that Amazon Prime Video has been cooking up with Westworld‘s Jonathan Nolan over the last few years. The streamer dropped a pretty dope teaser a few months back, and now that we’re getting real close to when this is gonna drop, they’ve dropped a much larger trailer that reveals plenty more about what’s to come. Get ready for giant roaches, mutated bears, an increasingly irradiated salesman-turned-post-apocalyptic-cowboy Walton Goggins, and robot organ harvesters. In short, it’s looking like it’ll be one of the most aesthetically faithful (if not wholly faithful) translations of a video game world into a traditional cinematic narrative. And holy fuck, we’re pumped.
Peep it:
Here’s a synopsis, though we think the curious should probably go out and play one of the games if they really want to know more (everybody loves New Vegas, and that is the best game in the series, but we’d recommend 3 or 4 for a good introduction to the setting and vibe before you set out to conquer the Hoover Dam):
“Based on one of the greatest video game series of all time, ‘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.”
All episodes of Fallout will be available to stream on Prime Video on April 11. Also: it’d be one of the biggest missed layups in streaming if they don’t get Ron Perlman to show up or, at the very least, provide even a second of narration in this series.