Maybe the Last Of Us TV show on HBO that did well was the start of a new era of good TV based on video games, but I still approach any adaptation with trepidation. That includes Amazon’s Fallout series of Westworld and Person Of Interest writer/director Jonathan Nolan, which just got its first trailer.
It certainly looks like Fallout, which is a good start. The trailer features vaults with large rolling doors and vault dwellers wearing bright blue overalls, a noseless ghoul, Brotherhood of Steel power armor and enemies including radroaches and yao guai. There’s also a cyclops, which I don’t remember from any Fallout game, and which seems a bit Krull, but okay.
There’s quite a cast behind it too: Michael Emerson, who is best loved for Lost but also worked with Nolan on Person Of Interest, is a kind of intense weirdo; Kyle MacLachlan plays a Vault warden; the Ghoul is played by Justified’s Walton Goggins. We get glimpses – sometimes extremely brief glimpses – of all of them in the trailer.
Images and clips from the Fallout show have been leaking all year, and Amazon finally put a date on the series last month. This is the first official trailer and it’s substantial, but the fact that it’s a “teaser” strongly suggests we’ll see more soon enough.