Fallout TV Show's Perfect Casting Should Ease Fan Concerns
The news that Walton Goggins has been perfectly cast in Amazon's upcoming Fallout series should ease the concerns of fans of the videogame franchise. Since his breakout role as Shane in The Shield, Goggins has carved out a prolific career as complex villains in the likes of Justified and Ant-Man & The Wasp. His involvement in Fallout is a further indicator of prestige quality, alongside Westworld's executive producers Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan, who have created and developed the series.
Not much else is known about Fallout, aside from the involvement of Captain Marvel writer Geneva Robertson-Dworet and The Office producer Graham Wagner as showrunners. Based on the popular series of video games, the series will presumably focus on life in a post-apocalyptic America. With the original video game having debuted in 1997, the adaptation can draw from extensive source material including four main games, six spinoffs, and three tabletop board games. However, many video game adaptations, such as Uncharted, have a considerable mountain to climb in the form of fan expectations, and Fallout is no different.
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For a series like Fallout to succeed, it is vital to appeal to an audience larger than the die-hard fans. The involvement of Goggins, with his impressive list of previous credits, should also attract a prestige drama audience. As a franchise, Fallout borrows heavily from existing post-apocalyptic fiction, but the prospect of Walton Goggins as a complex antagonist or antihero protagonist immediately raises the upcoming series above well-worn post-apocalyptic clichés. He has portrayed some of television's most memorable and multi-layered
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