Upon her return to the hellscape left behind by her ancestors 200 years after the apocalypse, vault dweller Lucy — played by Ella Purnell — confronts her greatest nemesis in the form of Walton Goggins’s Ghoul in the trailer of Amazon Prime Video’s Fallout, based on the eponymous video game franchise.
Dropped by the streaming platform on Thursday, the three-minute-seventeen-second-long trailer begins with Goggins’ Cooper Howard introducing the Vault-Tec Vault as “a veritable Camelot of the nuclear age”. Howard, a famous movie star before the nuclear war began, wants the vaults or underground bunkers to protect humans in case of a nuclear fallout. The television advertisement paints a picture of security, peace and communal harmony.
The screen fades to black and we are taken 200 years into the future. This is the post-apocalyptic world and the nuclear war has created a veritable wasteland. We get a glimpse of Shady City, the ruined capital of the New California Republic featured in the original Fallout game. Subsequent shots introduce Purnell’s Lucy, a dweller of Vault 33 in the video game, stepping out into the outside world only to face its utter devastation, lawlessness and volatility.
A misfit in the world outside, Lucy gears up to fight her biggest adversary – the Ghoul. As in the video game, the antagonist is Howard himself. The war has transformed him into a feared bounty hunter. The Ghoul, who is over 200 years old, does not have a nose and his skin appears rotten, an aftermath of the nuclear bombings.
The trailer also offers a glimpse of Maximus, played by Aaron Moten, a member of the Brotherhood of Steel, a post-war offshoot of the army in the video game. At times protecting civilians, this group has its own agenda. A man wearing a power armour, one of the most treasured items of the game, asks Maximus why he has joined the Brotherhood. He answers, steely voiced, “To hurt the people who hurt me”.
Dogs, bobbleheads and organ-harvesting robots, spotted in the trailer, capture the distinct vibe of the video game. The video is packed with thrilling action sequences — bullets raining left, right and centre, massive explosions reverberating, Leviathan-like monsters emerging from the ocean and an automatic saw threatening to cleave Lucy in two.
The trailer also features The Hunger Games actress Sarita Choudhury leading an armed squad. Besides, we get a glimpse of the one-eyed woman (played by Annabel O'Hagan), who eventually goes on to lead the revolution inside Vault 33.
Directed by Westworld co-creator Jonathan Nolan, the eight-episode series is slated to premiere on Amazon Prime Video on April 11.
