Fallout’s highly-anticipated TV show is approaching ever closer to its release date, with Amazon recently having released the first official images earlier today. These images feature several characters from the show, including a good look at Vault Dwellers, the Brotherhood of Steel, and Walter Goggins’ portrayal of a currently unnamed Ghoul.
Alongside the images, several people involved with the show, including Fallout 3 and Fallout 4 director Todd Howard, sat down with Vanity Fair to discuss more details and what to expect when the show debuts next year. It’s during this interview that Howard reveals that everything included in the Fallout TV show will be canon to the main video game series, ensuring that the storyline of the TV show can coexist with the games without throwing established lore in the bin.
We view what’s happening in the show as canon. That’s what’s great, when someone else looks at your work and then translates it in some fashion.” Todd Howard
Howard then goes on to heap even more praise on what he’s seen of the show, explaining that he was slightly envious of certain interpretations it makes and wondering “why didn’t we do that?” With the director of the modern Fallout titles so ready to dish out the praise, it’s a good sign that the show will at least be pretty faithful to the source material, even if it’s choosing to tell a completely unique story away from the plot of the games.
Fallout’s plot will revolve around a Vault Dweller called Lucy, who leaves the Vault after a “crisis” and steps forward into a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles.
In fact, it was Howard that shot down the idea of retelling stories in the Fallout universe with a TV show. Unlike shows such as HBO’s The Last of Us and Netflix’s adaptation of The Witcher, Howard didn’t want to do an interpretation of an existing story. Instead, he wanted to give the creators of the show more freedom and “their own playground to play in”.
Having to consider a story based on existing lore can be a little tricky though, as we’ve seen with adaptations in the past. The Witcher has continually managed to upset fans by straying too far from the source material, and Fallout fans can be a little picky when it comes to new creative projects potentially messing with the established timeline. Show creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy will need to tread carefully if they want to avoid the same fate, especially if more seasons are planned once they get the first one out of the door.
As for when that will be, it was confirmed not too long ago by Amazon that the Fallout TV show will be available on April 12, 2024, and we can probably expect that long-awaited trailer to drop early next year.
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