The Fallout TV series has started its casting process and already scored a reasonably big name: Walton Goggins, the breakout star of Justified. Goggins will be playing a Ghoul on the show based on the video game franchise.
Goggins has been around in the industry for a while, playing Detective Shane Vendrell on The Shield and Venus Van Dam on Sons of Anarchy. In film he has twice played for Quentin Tarantino, in The Hateful Eight and Django Unchained, whilst he also had a role in Spielberg's Lincoln. However, he remains best-known for his role as Boyd Crowder on Justified, the former friend-turned-enemy of Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) who becomes an uneasy "frenemy" of Givens for the entire run of the show.
The Fallout TV series is co-created and executive produced by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy (Person of Interest, Westworld), whilst Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner serving as showrunners. Nolan will direct the first episode of the series.
The Fallout video game series began in 1997 with the original Fallout, followed by Fallout 2 (1998), Fallout Tactics (2001), Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel (2004), Fallout 3 (2008), Fallout: New Vegas (2010), Fallout 4 (2015) and Fallout 76 (2018). The games are set around 200 years after a brief nuclear war between China and the United States in 2077 renders most of the world an atomic wasteland. The games, which each have their own self-contained storyline, depict the struggle for the survival in the new world arising from the ashes of the old. The games feature various factions, such as a fascist-leaning group seeking to rebuild the United States in their image, the Enclave, and an order of soldiers dedicating to stealing and hoarding advanced technology, the Brotherhood of Steel.
Ghouls are humans who have had an adverse reaction to the radiation left behind by the bombs, becoming effectively immortal at the cost of their physical health and appearance.
The franchise has also spun off comics, mobile games, a board game, a tabletop roleplaying game and a miniatures wargame, the latter two from Modiphius Entertainment.
Fallout will air on Amazon Prime Television. With the show now in pre-production and likely to have an extensive post-production period, it will most likely air in early-to-mid 2023.
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Great to have Walton but an odd role for him. He's all teeth and hair but I imagine ghouls look a bit different. This is his greatest cinematic accomplishment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd5ZOnFHUY8&ab_channel=MovieCentral
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