Fans are tremendously exhilarated watching the latest trailer for Walton Goggins’ Fallout, an Amazon Prime Video series based on the famous 1997 post-apocalyptic video game series with millions of copies sold worldwide.
Goggins was spotted in the trailer as The Ghoul and was seen in both before and after the nuclear apocalypse that altered his appearance, making him look like an irradiated figure with a missing nose.
Walton Goggins Talks About His Character, The Ghoul, In Fallout Series
During a press conference covered by Gizmodo, actor Walton Goggins teased more information about his mysterious character in the upcoming series.
“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!”
Amazon Prime’s Fallout is developed for television by Westworld showrunners Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. Aside from Goggins, the show also features Ella Purnell and Kyle MacLachlan.
In his interview with Vanity Fair, Nolan shared that the series will tackle relevant political issues despite it being set in a dystopian future devastated by nuclear war.
“The games are about the culture of division and haves and have-nots that, unfortunately, have only gotten more and more acute in this country and around the world over the last decades. We get to talk about that in a wonderful, speculative-fiction way.”
Some of Nolan’s notable works aside from Westworld include projects such as The Prestige, The Dark Knight, and Interstellar helmed by his brother, the legendary Christopher Nolan.
Fans Go Crazy Over Amazon Prime’s New Fallout Trailer
The latest trailer drew tons of praise from the fans as well as commendation for its lead star. A fan even called Goggins “the Kevin Bacon of this generation,” suggesting his diverse works in Hollywood and extensive connection with every single actor in Hollywood through films. Check out what fans are saying:
Walton Goggins, when it's all said and done is going to be the Kevin Bacon of this generation. My man WORKS https://t.co/3eWvYLHcS7
— Rich Fann II (and all that implies) (@Rich_Fann) March 7, 2024
holy shit THIS LOOKS SO GOOD, S+++ music choice too 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/ahO5LJNG1W
— Luc // HiddenXperia (@HiddenXperia) March 7, 2024
Looks good!!! Going to give it a watch
— Pyo 5️⃣ (@mrpyo1) March 7, 2024
Better than I thought it would be, actually exciting!
— Sarah (@Sarahj1919) March 7, 2024
Walton Goggins is a national treasure.
— ⒿⒷ➂ (@JB3_Xbox) March 7, 2024
Video game designer Todd Howard also spoke with Vanity Fair and revealed that Bethesda Game Studios worked closely with the showrunners to ensure that the tone of the video game will be translated seamlessly into the small screen.
“We had a lot of conversations over the style of humor, the level of violence, the style of violence. Look, Fallout can be very dramatic, and dark, and post-apocalyptic, but you need to weave in a little bit of a wink. I think they threaded that needle really well on the TV show.”
Howard also serves as an executive producer of the project. While fans will see Goggins as The Ghoul in the series’ wasteland, there will be ample scenes that will show his character before the irradiation and his former life as a guy named Cooper Howard.
Fallout arrives in Amazon Prime Video on April 11, 2024.
