Amazon’s Fallout TV series casts Walton Goggins in a lead role

I don’t want to set the world on fire, but it looks like Walton Goggins has been given a lead role for Amazon’s Fallout TV series. Amazon Prime Video’s adaptation of the mega-popular video game franchise comes from Jonathan and Lisa Joy’s Kilter Films, with Nolan poised to direct the premiere episode.

“Fallout is one of the greatest game series of all time,” said Nolan and Joy last year. “Each chapter of this insanely imaginative story has cost us countless hours we could have spent with family and friends. So we’re incredibly excited to partner with Todd Howard and the rest of the brilliant lunatics at Bethesda to bring this massive, subversive, and darkly funny universe to life with Amazon Studios.“

Fallout is a post-apocalyptic role-playing videogame series heavily influenced by 1950s post-war culture. Much of the franchise takes place hundreds of years after a great war over resources decimated the planet. The U.S. government set up a series of self-sufficient fallout shelters known as Vaults, but there wasn’t enough room for everyone and those who survived the nuclear fallout have become horribly mutated.

Details about Goggins’ role have not been revealed but word has it he’ll be playing Ghoul. In Fallout, ghouls are humans whose bodies have been ravaged by prolonged exposure to radiation. Victims of the Great War, ghouls are known to wander the wasteland while causing trouble for survivors of the destruction.

It strikes me as odd that Goggins would play a common enemy featured throughout the Fallout franchise, but then again, I’ve no idea what liberties the Fallout TV series will take with the source material. At any rate, I’m stoked to learn that Goggins is joining the cast.

Goggins has a recurring role on Amazon’s animated TV series Invincible, in addition to his part as Baby Billy Freeman for The Righteous Gemstones. He’s also set to star in the Apple TV+ limited series The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Dominique Fishback. He recently wrapped filming for Dreamin’ Wild from writer/director Bill Pohlad and is currently filming George & Tammy for Spectrum with Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain.

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