Fallout's TV Show Will Be Part Of Official Lore

thegamer.com:

Fallout's highly-anticipated TV show is approaching ever closer to its release date, with Amazon recently having released the first official images earlier today. These images feature several characters from the show, including a good look at Vault Dwellers, the Brotherhood of Steel, and Walter Goggins' portrayal of a currently unnamed Ghoul.

Alongside the images, several people involved with the show, including Fallout 3 and Fallout 4 director Todd Howard, sat down with Vanity Fair to discuss more details and what to expect when the show debuts next year. It's during this interview that Howard reveals that everything included in the Fallout TV show will be canon to the main video game series, ensuring that the storyline of the TV show can coexist with the games without throwing established lore in the bin.

We view what's happening in the show as canon. That's what's great, when someone else looks at your work and then translates it in some fashion." Todd Howard

Howard then goes on to heap even more praise on what he's seen of the show, explaining that he was slightly envious of certain interpretations it makes and wondering "why didn't we do that?" With the director of the modern Fallout titles so ready to dish out the praise, it's a good sign that the show will at least be pretty faithful to the source material, even if it's choosing to tell a completely unique story away from the plot of the games.

Fallout's plot will revolve around a Vault Dweller called Lucy, who leaves the Vault after a "crisis" and steps forward into a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles.

In fact, it was Howard that shot down the idea of retelling stories in the Fallout universe with a TV show. Unlike shows such as HBO's The Last of Us and Netflix's