Amazon’s upcoming live-action adaptation of the Fallout video game series has just found its lead star. Deadline reports that Ella Purnell (Yellowjackets, Army of the Dead) has just been cast in the lead role. The series, which will be released for streaming on Prime Video on a date yet to be determined, will also feature Walton Goggins as a main character. Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s Kilter Films are behind the adaptation, with Nolan directing the pilot episode.

Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner are serving as showrunners. The project comes from Amazon Studios and Kilter Films in association with Bethesda Game Studios and Bethesda Softworks. Nolan and Joy are executive producing with Athena Wickham for Kilter Films, as well as Todd Howard for Bethesda Game Studios and James Altman for Bethesda Softworks.

A few details have been revealed about Purnell’s reported character. She’s said to be playing the show’s lead, a young woman named Jean who is described as having a “can-do attitude who may be hiding a dangerous secret.” Her co-star, Goggins, will reportedly be playing a ghoul, someone left mutated by the atomic warfare that has left the Fallout universe a barren wasteland filled with bizarre creatures and sinister raiders.

Given the success and popularity of the Showtime series, Purnell may be best known for her role in Yellowjackets, playing one of the series’ leads. She also appeared in Zack Snyder’s zombie movie Army of the Dead, which just won the Fan Favorite award at the Oscars on Sunday night. Purnell is also known for her lead role in the Starz series Sweetbitter and has appeared in movies like Maleficent, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, and Churchill.

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Fallout Has Been a Long Time Coming

For many years, the Fallout series has stood tall as one of gaming’s most popular franchises. There have been many efforts to have a live-action version of the games brought to life on the big or small screen, but it wasn’t until Amazon Studios finally got the ball rolling that the Fallout series finally started to become a reality. The additions of Walton Goggins and Ella Purnell to the cast show a promising start to the adaptation’s production.

What might have helped this series get its green light is the rise of video game adaptations’ popularity in recent years. Last year, Mortal Kombat was the most-watched original movie released on HBO Max. 2020’s Sonic the Hedgehog was a massive success at the box office, with its upcoming sequel looking to do the same. Other studios have similarly noticed and have been investing big bucks into video game adaptations, notably the high-budget series based on The Last of Us at HBO with Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey. Because Fallout has long been anticipated, Prime Video’s adaptation is certainly a part of the conversation.

Fallout doesn’t have a premiere date set for Prime Video yet, but the project will start production in 2022.

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