Fallout Trivia | 55 facts about the TV series

“Fallout” is a new post-apocalyptic action drama series based on the popular videogame franchise of the same name.

The first season is streaming in its entirety on Amazon Prime Video. Let’s dive into some trivia and facts abou the series.

1. Fallout is an American post-apocalyptic action drama television series
2. The series is created by Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet for Amazon Prime Video
3. It is based on the role-playing video game franchise
4. The videogame franchise was created by Interplay Entertainment
5. It is now owned by Bethesda Softworks
6. Amazon purchased the rights to produce a live-action project in 2020
7. The show was announced that July
8. Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s Kilter Films joined by Bethesda Game Studios in the production
9. Nolan directed the first three episodes
10. Bethesda Game Studios producer Todd Howard, who directed various games in the series, signed on to executive produce alongside Nolan and Joy
11. Robertson-Dworet and Wagner were hired as the series’ showrunners in January 2022
12. Walton Goggins and Ella Purnell were cast in February and March, respectively
13. Fallout premiered on Prime Video on April 10, 2024
14. It received positive reviews from critics
15. With particular praise going towards the performances (particularly Purnell, Moten, and Goggins), writing, visuals, production design, and its faithfulness to the source material
16. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 94% approval rating
17. Based on 82 critic reviews
18. The website’s critics consensus reads, “An adaptation that feels like a true extension of the games, Fallout is a post-apocalyptic blast for newcomers and longtime fans alike”
19. Metacritic assigned a score of 73 out of 100
20. Based on 32 critics
21. Indicating “generally favorable reviews”
22. The show depicts the aftermath of an apocalyptic nuclear exchange in an alternate history of Earth
23. In this future advances in nuclear technology after WWII led to the emergence of a retrofuturistic society and a subsequent resource war
24. Many survivors took refuge in fallout bunkers known as Vaults
25. Vaults were built to preserve humanity in the event of nuclear annihilation
26. Unaware each Vault was designed to perform psychological experiments on the Vault Dwellers
27. More than two hundred years later, a young woman named Lucy leaves behind her home in Vault 33 to venture out into the dangerously unforgiving wasteland of a devastated Los Angeles to look for her father
28. Along the way, she meets a Brotherhood of Steel squire and a ghoul bounty hunter
29. Each with their own mysterious past and agendas to settle
30. Bethesda had been approached multiple times about a television adaptation of the Fallout video games since the developer released Fallout 3 in 2008, according to Bethesda’s Todd Howard
31. Though he felt none of the suggestions met the vision of the Fallout series
32. Bethesda’s marketing executive Pete Hines had also cautioned the company in 2015 on the potential impact of a poor adaptation of their video games,
33. Hines pointed to the example of the 2005 Doom film as an example of a bad adaptation
34. The situation changed when Jonathan Nolan approached Bethesda with his idea of a Fallout television series, having been an avid player of the game series
35. Howard found that Nolan had a clear vision for the adaptation
36. Howard agreed this approach was a good way to bring the game series to the television screen
37. The television adaptation was formally announced in July 2020 under Amazon Studios (later renamed Amazon MGM Studios) with Nolan and Lisa Joy developing the work
38. Joy described the series as “a gonzo, crazy, funny, adventure, and mindfuck like none you’ve ever seen before”
39. In January 2022 Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner were hired as showrunners for the series
40. With Nolan set to direct the pilot episode
41. The show was confirmed to be set within the same continuity as the franchise during an interview on November 28, 2023
42. Howard wanted to avoid adapting any of the previous games and sought for an original story to be told instead
43. In February 2022, Walton Goggins was cast in a lead role as a Cooper Howard, an actor who became a Ghoul after the bombs fell
44. In March 2022, Ella Purnell joined the cast
45. In June 2022, Kyle MacLachlan, Xelia Mendes-Jones and Aaron Moten joined as regulars
46. In October 2023, additional casting including Sarita Choudhury, Michael Emerson, Leslie Uggams and Zach Cherry was announced
47. Filming began on July 5, 2022, in New Jersey, New York and Utah
48. Additional filming took place in Namibia on the Skeleton Coast
49. Including Kolmanskop, an abandoned mining town in the region
50. Nolan directed the first 3 episodes of the series, with Stuart Dryburgh and Teodoro Maniaci serving as cinematographers
51. In January 2024, it was revealed that Ramin Djawadi had composed a score inspired by the works of Inon Zur’s Fallout series compositions
52. The television series’ first soundtrack was released by Amazon on April 8, 2024
53. Fallout was scheduled to premiere on Amazon Prime Video on April 12, 2024
54. But this date was later moved forward
55. Then it was scheduled to be released on April 10, 2024, at 6 PM PT