Amazon Prime Video | The creators of Westworld draw out Fallout, adaptation of a video game

(Paris) One year after the success of The Last of Usa new successful adaptation of a video game arrives Thursday on Prime Video with the series falloutpost-apocalyptic blockbuster produced by the creators of Westworldincluding Christopher Nolan’s brother, Jonathan.

Played in particular by Walton Goggins (Justified), Ella Purnell (Yellowjackets) and Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks, Desperate Housewives), this eight-episode series based on a role-playing game saga depicts a retrofuturistic world, 200 years after a global nuclear war.

We follow Lucy who, forced to leave one of the anti-atomic shelters in which the most privileged people were able to take refuge, will discover an irradiated world without faith or law, populated by mutant creatures of all kinds.

Unlike the HBO series The Last of Usmodeled on the story of the eponymous game, fallout creates a new plot and new characters. It is mainly inspired by the “tone” of its model mixing “drama, emotion, black humor, satire, politics”, explained to AFP Jonathan Nolan, who also directed the first three episodes, on the occasion of the festival Canneseries.

Video game designer Todd Howard, director of Fallout 3 And Fallout 4 at Bethesda Games Studios, and “his team participated in every step” of the adaptation, argues Jonathan Nolan, who did not seek to satisfy at all costs the fans of the series launched on PC in 1997.

“I want people to know that you don’t need to know the game to enjoy the series,” actress Ella Purnell insisted to AFP.

In fact, laymen will have plenty of reasons to watch this explosive, bloody, but funny western, which favors natural settings over 3D, filmed in New York, Utah and Namibia.

“Eight of us took a four-hour trip by helicopter to the site of the abandoned wreck that we see in the first episode” for only “12 seconds” of screen time, says Ella Purnell , also praising the level of detail of the sets built for the series.

“We often had the impression of being in an amusement park,” adds his playing partner Aaron Moten, while the American magazine Variety mentions a budget of 153 million dollars.

Another asset: the music of the series, which combines retro titles, faithful to the 1950s atmosphere of the game, and original soundtrack composed by Ramin Djawadi (Game Of Thrones, Westworld).

Its launch on the Amazon platform on Thursday was brought forward to 3 a.m. French time, which will allow Americans to discover it on Wednesday evening.