The next big adaptation of the video game to television has its own name: Fallout. The jump of Bethesda's acclaimed video game saga to Prime Video. And if Lucy (played by Ella Purnell) will give life to the character that we usually control when leaving the Shelter in each installment, the one who has all the ballots to win over the public is el Ghoul de Walton Goggins. A bounty hunter with a somewhat broken moral compass. Something that is evident in the first trailer of the series.
Amazon and Prime Video have shared an extract of just over two minutes of Fallout in which we can see how the three protagonists of the series (Lucy, the Ghoul and Maximus, from the militarist Brotherhood of Steel faction) share the scene establishing what kind of dynamic they will have between them. Of course, the red-headed cowboy seems to already comes back from everything.
Who is the Ghoul? Well, in a press conference that we attended from VidaExtra, Walton Goggins himself defined his vision of the character he plays.
“The Ghoul is, in a way, the poet Virgil of Dante's Inferno. He is the guide, so to speak, through this irradiated hell that we find ourselves in in this post-apocalyptic world.
He's a bounty hunter, an iconic bounty hunter. He is pragmatic, ruthless, has his own set of moral codes and has a wicked sense of humor. Very similar to me. [risas] No, he is a very, very, very complicated guy, and to understand him, you have to understand the person he was before the war. He had a name. His name was Cooper Howard and he was a very different person than the demon you've seen so far.”
Both the setting and the characterization of the characters play completely in favor of the initiative, although a loose scene is not the same as a developed plot. However, as a preview it is clear to us that the tone and the more than particular universe of Bethesda games will be represented with an interesting novelty: unlike the deliveries published on PC and consoles, this time the action takes place in Los Angeles. Or, rather, what's left of the city.
For its part, Fallout on Prime Video it has an additional claim: the adaptation has been written and its first three episodes directed by Joel Nolan (brother of Christopher Nolan) to whom we owe the scripts of the Dark Knight trilogy and Westworld for HBO. A confessed fan, by the way, of the video game saga Fallout. Something that was clear to us from its first official trailer.
The bad new? There are still weeks until its premiere: the eight episodes of Fallout on Prime Video you can see them Thursday April 11, being one day earlier than initially announced. And if you have an Amazon Prime subscription, the streaming video service is included at no additional cost. Of course, in case you are considering starting or catching up with the video game saga, time begins to count against you. We give you warning.
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