I certainly didn’t anticipate the tactile quality of this show," star Walton Goggins says.
Read more about the franchise’s long journey to the small screen.
The world ofFalloutis closer than it appears.
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But back in January 2023, it also described Amazon Studios new TV adaptation of the franchise.
Walking even further into the studio, you wouldve eventually found yourself in a room full of sand.
But when it came time to start planningFallout, Nolans mind immediately went to Kolmanskop.
Ella Purnell in ‘Fallout’.JoJo Whilden/Prime Video
It doesn’t feel Western.
It was a German mining town in the early 20th century.
Then they started finding bigger diamonds down the coast, so they just pulled the roofs off and left.
Power Armor and Maximus (Aaron Moten) in ‘Fallout.'.Courtesy of Prime Video
Its house after house that looks exactly like this.
So Nolan and production designer Howard Cummings worked to recreate the place in studio.
The scene in question is universally referred to as the ass jerky scene.
Mention that phrase to Nolan, Goggins, or Purnell and they know exactly what youre talking about.
On the precipice of finally descending into madness, Roger asks The Ghoul for help.
In other words, its like a diorama of this world, Goggins says.
This is typical of a scene inFallout, in that there is so much going on.
Watching Walton work is such a treat.
He’s such a dedicated, nuanced, funny performer and a very generous scene partner, Purnell says.
It was like 96 degrees in New York, and I thought he was crying.
Then I realized he wasnt crying, he wassweating.
He had a tough job and he was just such a trooper, such a professional.
Goggins says of the prosthetics, It was a challenge totalk, man.
So I would ask him after every take, Are you seeing this?
Is this just a blank canvas?
And he said, ‘Buddy, we see everything.
It’s all in your eyes, we understand everything that you’re doing.
Once I felt secure about that, then we were off to the races.
Lucy and The Ghoul are two ofFallouts core trinity of characters.
The third is Maximus (Aaron Moten), a member of the Brotherhood of Steel.
Together, these characters represent the different choices available to players of theFalloutgames.
Nolan credits that idea toFalloutcreators and showrunners Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner.
So how do we translate that moral ambiguity?
But Maximus is not exactly as chivalrous as the Brotherhoods ideals would suggest.
I got really, really drawn to this character.
He reminded me of Cassius in ShakespearesJulius Caesar, a hungry dog, Moten tells EW.
That’s a world and a mindset that we don’t really know, and that really excited me.
As it happens, Nolan was developing the show with Robertson-Dworet and Wagner while the COVID-19 pandemic was happening.
But the games have always been political and satirical.
Graham was joking that the first game could have been written by Adbusters.
Or perhaps the apocalypse is always closer than it appears.
Falloutis available on Prime Video now.
