Vanity Fair has published a first look at Amazon’s Fallout TV series, and with it comes a set of images that show off what some of the franchise’s more iconic elements, such as the Vault jumpsuit and Power armor, will look like in the new show that’s headed to Prime Video on April 12.
Here’s all of the shots that Vanity Fair shared in its feature, some of which include Lucy, a Vault dweller played by Ella Purnell (Yellowjackets) who appears to be leading the series:
Todd Howard, who is executive producing Fallout, also gave some new details about the series, such as how it’ll include an origin story for Vault Boy. Whatever happens in the show will also be considered canon by Bethesda, it seems:
“We had a lot of conversations over the style of humor, the level of violence, the style of violence,” says Howard, who’s also an executive producer of the show. “Look, Fallout can be very dramatic, and dark, and postapocalyptic, but you need to weave in a little bit of a wink…. I think they threaded that needle really well on the TV show.”
Vault Boy not only appears in the show, but the imagery even gets an origin story (which we won’t spoil here). “That was something that they came up with that’s just really smart,” Howard says.
Fans of the games should know that everything in the series is officially part of Fallout lore, and Bethesda was careful to make sure the scripts could coexist with previous storylines from the gaming titles. “We view what’s happening in the show as canon,” says Howard. “That’s what’s great, when someone else looks at your work and then translates it in some fashion.” He admits to being envious of some of the TV show’s interpretations and additions: “I sort of looked at it like, ‘Ah, why didn’t we do that?’”
Other actors that will appear in the Fallout series include Kyle MacLachlan, who plays Lucy’s father, the overseer of Vault 33, while Walton Goggins plays a bounty hunter called The Ghoul. As for why he’s not as ugly as the ones found in Bethesda’s games:
“You have to be extremely careful with it when you’re putting a full appliance on someone’s face, because you hired that actor for a reason,” explained Jonathan Nolan, who developed the Fallout show alongside his wife, Lisa Joy. “Their face is their instrument. [You want] the tiny little expressions and changes that they make.”