Kyle MacLachlan, who is best known to many for playing the role of Dale Cooper on Twin Peaks, has signed on to play an unspecified role in the Amazon series adaptation of the popular video game series Fallout. Variety reports that Xelia Mendes-Jones (Sans Comic) and Aaron Moten (Father Stu) have also been added to the cast, joining the previously announced cast members Ella Purnell (Yellowjackets) and Walton Goggins (Justified). Details on most of the characters are being kept under wraps, but it has been said that Goggins will be playing a Ghoul.
Like the video games on which it is based, the “Fallout” series is set in a world where the future envisioned by Americans in the late 1940s explodes upon itself through a nuclear war in 2077.
Fallout is expected to begin filming sometime later this year. Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner are the showrunners and are executive producing the series with Todd Howard of Bethesda Game Studios, James Altman of Bethesda Softworks, and Athena Wickham, Jonathan Nolan, and Lisa Joy of Kilter Films. Amazon Studios and Kilter Films are producing the series, in association with Bethesda Game Studios and Bethesda Softworks. Nolan will be directing the first episode.
In addition to Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout 3, and Fallout 4, the video game series also consists of the spin-offs Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 76, Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel, Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, Fallout Shelter, and Fallout Pinball. The first game
takes place in a post-apocalyptic Southern California, beginning in the year 2161. The protagonist, referred to as the Vault Dweller, is tasked with recovering a water chip in the Wasteland to replace the broken one in their underground shelter home, Vault 13. Afterwards, the Vault Dweller must thwart the plans of a group of mutants, led by a grotesque entity named the Master.
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