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Fallout cast & creators for Deadline (x)

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Fallout (2024- )

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"Fallout" (2024) Created by Geneva Robertson-Dworet & Graham Wagner (Action/Adventure/Drama/Video Game)

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Fallout - season 1 (2024) review

The evolution of the phrase “okey dokey” throughout this show says so much for the good old fashioned writing of this season.

Plot: Over 200 years after a nuclear apocalypse devastates America, a violent raid by bandits on an underground fallout shelter forces one of its residents to set out into a barren wasteland filled with radiation, mutated monsters, and a lawless society of those who remained on the surface.

For a very long while in the cinephile and gaming community there has been this shared agreement over the video game adaptation curse. Video games have been plagued with adaptations that end up being met with terrible reception due to a combination of bad writing and poor visuals that don’t live up to the original game. To this day this fact arguably still continues with the likes of Resident Evil and Uncharted. And look, I love Hiroyuki Sanada as much as the next person, but that Mortal Kombat flick from a few years back was not great either. That being said, in recent years there has also been a trend of genuinely successful attempts that have translated surprisingly well. Detective Pikachu banked a lot on Ryan Reynolds sarcastic persona and the Pokémon creatures were utilised well; Netflix’s The Witcher has done pretty well for itself, well until now when they’ve swapped their lead actor for one of the cheaper Hemsworth brothers; Super Mario Bros. Movie and the Sonic flicks I’m not a fan of myself, but evidently from the box office numbers and audience reactions they seemed to have hit the right spot in the fans’ hearts. Then there’s The Last of Us. The original game won people over for its heart-wrenching human drama against the backdrop of a zombie apocalypse, and the TV show has done a perfect job of capturing that. Every episode has recreated the game down to the last detail, and even when things are changed, the spirit of the source material is still kept alive. All of that makes it a rare adaptation that succeeds in giving people a new version of the original game and then some, giving it plenty to offer for old and new fans alike.

Now it seems that positive trend continues, furthermore underlining that the video game adaptation curse is now a myth. Well maybe, as that upcoming Borderlands movie is a looking suspiciously clunky but we’ll see how that one turns out. As for presently, Prime Video has shocked us all by giving us a truly fantastic show in Fallout. And I say shocked as the last time Prime Video adapted a famous property was The Rings of Power series and they butchered that one hard! I mean I’m sorry, but making an entire over-bloated season about the mystery of who is Sauron, and at the end the reveal is he’s some teen-Twilight-era dude and we’re supposed to all gasp in awe?? Look, I get that it’s not Prime Video themselves to be blamed, but the show runners and writers, but naturally Prime has left a sour taste in my palette. HOWEVER - Fallout is actually genuinely a good time!

I’ve never really played any of the Fallout games. Never appealed to me, and I have always found it difficult to get into any Bethesda games. My fiancée however tried Fallout 4 half a year ago and apparently gave up as she found it too confusing and she got stuck at a monster boss fight early on. I do hope she wasn’t stuck fighting one of those tiny little bugs, surely not. That would be embarrassing. So I went into this show without being a fan of the games, though I was aware of its post-apocalyptic backdrop. One of the best things about Fallout the TV show is that it’s very accessible whether or not you’ve played the games. Yes, fans of the games will notice a lot of fun stuff from the source material, but even if you’re a total newcomer, you can watch and follow along without any issues.

The story revolves around three main characters 200 years after a nuclear war basically destroyed everything, driving some survivors into underground bunkers called Vaults. Ella Purnell (that’s right, one of Miss Peregrine’s peculiar children!) plays Lucy MacLean, a Vault Dweller who, through unfortunate circumstances, leaves the relative safety of Vault 33 and travels to the surface on a life or death mission. She’s joined by Maximus (Aaron Clifton Moten) a squire in the secretive Brotherhood Of Steel - Power Armor-wearing knights who roam the land looking for lost technology. Maximus is almost as green as Lucy, venturing out on a quest he’s not very well prepared to tackle. Finally, rounding out the main trio, we have Walton Goggins as The Ghoul, a gunslinging bounty hunter and mutant who’s managed to live for well over 200 years. We learn more about his past as celebrity Cooper Howard through a number of flashbacks. Naturally more characters pop up along the way. I just want to urge anyone sitting on the fence to give this series a shot. It’s great fun, with plenty of humour, action and mystery and its creators clearly put a lot of effort into making it true to the game universe, while also being inventive with their storytelling.

It’s also really gory. You get to see a lot of human flesh out on display (heck, there are even zombies in this thing!) and it’s all visually looked really well done. Again with Bezos’ Amazon budget, like The Rings of Power show, Fallout looks like an expensive series. It just so happens that unlike Rings of Power this one happens to also have good writing, characters and narrative. There’s some impressive world-building, with every shot filled with various details that I’m sure will please the game fans. The story is really engaging, and I loved getting into the politics of this world and how companies like Vault Tec have more to them that meets the eye.

The primary element that works for Fallout is that’s its easy. As in it’s really enjoyable and straightforward and makes for a solid binge watch. Walton Goggins is superb as the Ghoul. Johnny Pemberton as Thaddeus, a squire for the Knights, was a great use of using a comedic actor and making them play things straight by simply trying to survive in this world, so that when the funny lines did come up they hit strong. Oh, and did I mention that Agent Dale Cooper himself, my boy Kyle MacLachlan is in this show?? Honestly, Fallout is a great time! Amazon, I still haven’t forgiven you for Lord of the Rings, but this is a good attempt for an apology.

Overall score: 7/10

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Fallout

S1.E3 "The Head"

"The Wasteland's got its own Golden Rule"

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Fallout Teaser Trailer

Based on the video games, Amazon's Fallout series is set in the post-apocalyptic wastelands of Los Angeles. 200 years after the nuclear fallout, Lucy, a Vault dweller, ventures to the irradiated surface to discover the world that awaits them.

Fallout stars Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten, and Walton Goggins. Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan are developing and writing the series. Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet serve as showrunners.

Fallout hits Prime Video on April 12, 2024.

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'Fallout' Season 2 Officially Gets the Thumbs Up

'Fallout' Season 2 Officially Gets the Thumbs Up @falloutonprime #FalloutOnPrime

If you’re anything like me, you binged the entirety of Fallout Season 1 in a matter of two days. And once you got to the end, you wanted more, right? Well guess what folks! Prime Video heard you! Continue reading ‘Fallout’ Season 2 Officially Gets the Thumbs Up

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Fallout (Amazon Prime)  Season One. Review.  

The common narrative around Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s  HBO adaptation of Westworld is that the first season is perfect and you don’t need anything beyond that. As someone who watched the entire thing as it was originally airing it might not be entirely true as season 2 is a pretty solid follow-up but after that the diminishing returns kicked in hard. The series ends on a cliffhanger that sets…

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Podcast: Fallout & Humane

Greetings, programs! Join us this week for reviews of the new Amazon Prime adaptation of Fallout and then the new Canadian dystopian black comedy horror movie Humane, Caitlin Cronenberg’s feature directorial debut.   Continue reading Podcast: Fallout & Humane

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April 2024. I don't like video games, which I find to be a worst-of-all-worlds combination of storytelling features, and I have yet to see any very compelling evidence that video game stories and concepts can translate into other media with other than embarrassing results. (Even THE EXPANSE, which never actually became the video game it was originally intended to be, was severely handicapped by its video game story conceits despite its many compelling points.) So, my expectations for the new FALLOUT show would be very low even if it weren't executive produced by noted hacks Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan, who were responsible for the hackish and racist WESTWORLD reboot and the hopelessly misfired TV adaptation of THE PERIPHERAL, and I probably wouldn't bother at all except that I have enough second-hand knowledge of the game setting not to be baffled by its various weird conceits and arch satiric tone, which, for better or worse, the show seems to be embracing with relish.

If you're not familiar with the game, it's set in the late 23nd century of an 1950s-like alternate timeline where the world was devastated by atomic war, and where various factions are now vying to "civilize" the mutant-ridden radioactive wastelands of North America. Ella Purnell, who doesn't need prosthetics or CGI to look a bit like a cartoon character, is a Vault Dweller named Lucy MacLean, raised in an underground bomb shelter complex that's preserved a kind of parody of '50s Americana, but forced to venture out into the Wasteland to search for her kidnapped father (Kyle McLachlan). Aaron Moten is Maximus, a young Aspirant of the Brotherhood of Steel, a kind of paramilitary science cult with power armor, while Walton Goggins is a Ghoul named Cooper, a mutated prewar survivor who's been rendered more or less immortal despite looking like a rotten corpse.

So far, it seems to capture the look and feel of the games about as well as it could, with a high level of gore and glibness and the expected array of Easter eggs for people familiar with the games. Whether it will manage contrive any kind of point to the story is TBD, although given the source material and the creative team, I'm not holding my breath. Goggins could do this kind of weird PoMo cowboy shtick in his sleep at this point, which is probably a plus; the only one of the other characters who's at all interesting is Xelia Mendes-Jones as Dane, another Brotherhood of Steel Aspirant whom I think we're supposed to take as canonically nonbinary. I'm not sure how I feel about the treatment of Dogmeat, who crosses certain lines for me in terms of cute animal character vs. fictitious animal abuse.

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16.06.2023

#Mira-Marathon | MCU

Film Name: Captain Marvel (2019); Production studios: Walt Disney Pictures, Marvel Studios, Animal Logic; Director by: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck; Screenwriters: Meg LeFauve, Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Nicole Perlman; Starring: Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Jude Law, Annette Bening; Genres: Science Fiction, Action, Adventure; Running Time: 2 hours, 3 minutes;

Captain Marvel is an exciting superhero movie of 2019 that tells the story of Carol Danvers and her transformation into Captain Marvel. The film is stunning with its visuals, although it may feel a bit too long for some viewers. Overall, this is a great movie for Marvel fans that explores themes of female power, friendship, and hero power.

My rating: 7/10

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A big thanks to @acapelladitty who commissioned me to draw a kiss scene from her expertly written story Friction and Harmony to help out with the fundraising! You're the best, dear! ^3^🖤🤍

Psst, here you can buy it as a print! ^-^

Lucy, The Ghoul (c) Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet Art (c) FinzPhoenix

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I was bummed to hear that the next Star Trek film got pulled from Paramount's 2023 calendar. I break down the facts of the situation for you on @fangirlish. 

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"We were trying to discover in the moment what Maximus does with the obliteration of optimism. I don't know how else to describe it. ...This is now going to be the biggest defining blow that's going to turn him into the man that we will continue to see develop throughout the course of this series." - Aaron Moten

"Aaron Moten is a guy who can do soliloquies with his expressional journeys. We're not the kind of show to release deleted scenes, but the various iterations of how Maximus processed this moment... is amazing." - Graham Wagner, Fallout Showrunner and Series Creator

"Be careful what you wish for was always something... we wanted the show to deal with. With Aaron and Maximus, he really wants this suit and he thinks it'll be his palace, but... he's about to be knighted after the show ends obviously and he knows that's going to be a prison for him." - Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Fallout Showrunner and Series Creator

Fallout (2024 - ) 1.08: The Beginning dir. Wayne Yip

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Steve Yockey, co-creator of the Max series “The Flight Attendant,” is joining Starfleet as the new screenwriter for “Star Trek 4.”

Story details remain under a powerful cloaking device, but Paramount Pictures and Bad Robot still intend the project to be the final chapter for the cast that rebooted the franchise in movie theaters with 2009’s “Star Trek,” including Chris Pine (as Capt. James T. Kirk), Zachary Quinto (as Cmdr. Spock), Zoe Saldaña (as Lt. Nyota Uhura), Karl Urban (as Dr. Leonard McCoy), John Cho (as Lt. Hikaru Sulu) and Simon Pegg (as chief engineer Montgomery Scott). (Variety first reported the news in its cover story on the future of the “Star Trek” franchise.)

Bringing the cast back following 2016’s “Star Trek Beyond” has proven trickier for the studio than finding an altruistic Ferengi. At least three previous attempts fell apart for various reasons, most recently with director Matt Shakman (“WandaVision”) and screenwriters Lindsey Beer (“Sierra Burgess Is a Loser”) and Geneva Robertson-Dworet (“Captain Marvel”) that the studio had slated to open in late 2023. When Shakman left the film in 2022 to direct “The Fantastic Four” for Marvel Studios, however, Paramount pulled it from its slate and sent it back to spacedock.