Prime Video’s Fallout series is something a lot of fans are excited about. It looks like the creative team behind it made an awesome show, which is based on the popular video game. It seems to perfectly bring that crazy post-apocalyptic world to life.
One of the most interesting aspects of the series is Walton Goggins’ character, The Ghoul, a noseless, peeling, irradiated creature that was once human. He’s a wild card character in the series and a sinister bounty hunter.
The Ghoul was previously described as a “gruesomely scarred roughrider who has a code of honor, but also a ruthless streak. He is the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly all rolled into one.” The character is a survivor who has existed for hundreds of years and the series will offer insight into his past with flashbacks of the “human being he once was, a father and husband named Cooper Howard, before the nuclear holocaust turned the world into a cinder and transformed him into an undead, noseless sharp-shooting fiend.”
Goggins is now sharing some additional information on his character, explaining: “The Ghoul is, in some ways, the poet Virgil in Dante’s Inferno. He’s the guide, if you will, through this irradiated hellscape that we find ourselves in in this post-apocalyptic world. He is a bounty hunter… he is pragmatic, he is ruthless, he has his own set of moral codes, and he has a wicked sense of humor. Much like me!”
The series will explore this character prior to his current state. It will share details about his former life as a man named Cooper Howard. In regard to that, Goggins said: “He’s a very, very, very complicated guy, and to understand him, you have to understand the person that he was before the war… he was a vastly different person than the ghoul that you’ve seen so far. Over the course of the show, through his experience back in the world before the nuclear fallout, you will understand how the world was. And he is the bridge between both these worlds.”
Fallout is the story of “haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. 200 years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind — and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird and highly violent universe waiting for them.”
The world of Fallout is “one where the future envisioned by Americans in the late 1940s explodes upon itself through a nuclear war in 2077. In Fallout, the harshness of the wasteland is set against the previous generation’s utopian idea of a better world through nuclear energy. It is serious in tone, yet sprinkled with moments of ironic humor and B-movie-nuclear-fantasies.”
As for the series, it is set in future post-apocalyptic Los Angeles it will tell an original story based on the Fallout games and this new story will be part of the canon of the games.
Fallout will drop its entire debut season on Amazon Prime Video April 11.
Via: Gizmodo
