The “Fallout” video games have completely different storylines and settings, however they’re united by the identical beginning premise: a vault dweller, born and raised in one of many underground nuclear bunkers the place humanity hid after the bombs fell, emerges into the radiation-riddled floor world for the primary time. This time the vault dweller is Lucy, performed by Ella Purnell (“Military of the Useless”), and the surface-dwellers she’ll encounter will embrace Walton Ghoulgins (see, it is already began), a Brotherhood of Metal squire referred to as Maximus (Aaron Moten), and a canine referred to as CX404 — who appears an terrible lot just like the devoted canine companion from the video video games, Dogmeat. There have been truly a number of Dogmeats featured within the “Fallout” video games, so CX404 might find yourself being referred to as Dogmeat as properly, if solely as a result of it rolls off the tongue a bit extra simply.
The non-canine solid additionally consists of Zach Cherry (“Severance”), Moisés Arias (“Samaritan”), Kyle MacLachlan (“Twin Peaks”), Sarita Choudhury (“The Inexperienced Knight”), and Michael Emerson (“Misplaced”). Here is the official synopsis for the collection:
Primarily based on one of many biggest online game collection of all time, Fallout is the story of haves and have-nots in a world during which there’s virtually nothing left to have. 200 years after the apocalypse, the light denizens of luxurious fallout shelters are pressured to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind — and are shocked to find an extremely complicated, gleefully bizarre and extremely violent universe ready for them.
“Fallout” premieres April 12, 2024, on Prime Video.