Fallout Show Casts Walton Goggins In Lead Role For Video Game Adaptation

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Amazon's upcoming adaptation of the video game Fallout has cast Walton Goggins in a lead role. The game franchise, which is set in a retro-themed post-apocalyptic world, began in 1997 with the computer game Fallout, released on multiple platforms. It was quickly followed by a sequel the next year, with longer delays between subsequent entries (Fallout 3 debuted in 2008, and Fallout 4 came in 2015). Although the main branch of the series only contains those four games, the wide-ranging Fallout franchise contains 6 other spinoff video games and three tabletop roleplaying games expanding on the lore surrounding Fallout.

In Summer 2020, Amazon Studios announced that they were developing a series based on Fallout, set to stream exclusively on Amazon Prime. The series was created by Lisa Joy and her husband Jonathan Nolan, who co-created HBO's science fiction series Westworld. Nolan is also set to direct the first episode. The showrunners they have brought on are Geneva Robertson-Dworet (who wrote the screenplays for Captain Marvel and 2018's Tomb Raider) and Graham Wagner (a producer on comedy series including The Office, Silicon Valley, and Portlandia).

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According to reports from Variety, Walton Goggins, who previously worked with Robertson-Dworet on Tomb Raider, has signed on to join the main cast of the series. The show's producers are currently being tight-lipped as to character details, but it has been revealed he will be playing a ghoul. In the Fallout games, ghouls are irradiated mutant beings who have become immune to nuclear fallout and generally cause mayhem among the remaining human population. They also have longer-than-average