Amazon is looking to turn IP television into appointment viewing. The streamer is about to debut “Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power” in September and is already looking to take high-profile video game franchises like “Fallout” and “Mass Effect” into live-action brands. And with that in mind, it seems like Amazon has found its lead actor for “Fallout.”
According to Deadline, character actor Walton Goggins of “Justified” has landed an unnamed lead role in the series and is said to be playing a ghoul, a type of mutated humanoid from the game. It’s assumed that Goggins could be put in the makeup chair or digitally changed into the creature.
“Westworld” duo Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy are producing the show via Kilter Films, with Nolan set to direct the premiere. Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner are the showrunners, with production set to begin this year. This timing would assumingly mean we could start seeing episodes air sometime in 2023.
The quirky wasteland of “Fallout” is full of survivors, friends, and foes, robots, alongside various creatures that have evolved in the wake of a nuclear apocalypse, such as ghouls, mutated disfigured humans. Groups of humans hold up in Vault-Tec vaults sustainable underground bomb shelters as the outside world deals with the fallout of the bombs in a radioactive frontier-like environment.
Visually, the game standouts to be more of a mid-century modern vision of the atomic future, giving it a unique feel, not unlike the horror game “BioShock,” using existing vintage music and design to help create a familiar but spooky atmosphere for gamers. Goggins has had notable roles in Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained” and “The Hateful Eight” and Marvel’s “Ant-Man & The Wasp,” alongside his breakout role in “Justified.”
Originally a video game for PC and first published in 1997, “Fallout” branched out in subsequent installments for consoles with “Fallout 4” and the multiplayer “Fallout 76” being the more recent editions.