Today, Amazon and Bethesda have debuted the first official trailer of the Fallout TV show, slated to air via Prime Video on April 11, one day earlier than originally planned. All of the eight episodes of the season will be available to be viewed right away. The first three episodes were directed by Jonathan Nolan, brother to the famous film director Christopher Nolan and also executive producer on the Fallout TV show alongside his wife Lisa Joy.
In a virtual press conference that Wccftech was able to attend yesterday, Bethesda's Todd Howard (also an executive producer on the series) praised the work of Nolan's Kilter Films production company and the whole cast.
People would approach us over I would say a 10-year period after Fallout 3 came out, from 2009 on, to adapt Fallout to film or television. We took a very cautious approach, and Jonah was somebody I was such a fan of the movies he did and the TV he was doing. I actually had someone reach out. When I first talked to Jonah, honestly, it was like someone I had known for a long time. He obviously played the games a ton, and his approach, right from the get-go, was in sync with what I was thinking. It's been a great, great collaboration. For someone like me and the team here at Bethesda, it's just a real blessing to see what they've done with it.
The trick with Fallout is it has so many different tones. It goes between the serious, the dramatic, and action, and some humor and nostalgic music and dramatic music. The trailer does what the show does really well, which is it weaves those different things together in a very unique blend that only Fallout can bring. They've done just an awesome job.
Nolan himself (who is credited for creating Westworld and Person of Interest, as well as writing blockbuster movies like The Prestige, The Dark Knight, and Interstellar) is a big fan of the series, which
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