Fallout Showrunners Love The "Absurdity" Of Working With Amazon

07.04.2024 - 18:25 / thegamer.com / Graham Wagner

One of Fallout's showrunners has acknowledged concerns that Amazon Prime Video is a poor fit for the series. Speaking with TheGamer, Graham Wagner says he's aware that Fallout has always had an "anti-cooperate" energy, but adds that this irony was "part of the appeal".

Despite partnering with Amazon to create the show, Wagner insists that the satire from Fallout is still "baked into" the world, and doesn't stray from this just because of the platform it's on. He also says that being able to put the show on Prime Video in the first place was "too delicious for words", enjoying the irony of it all.

"If we've learned anything from online discourse, it's that some people will worry about everything," says Wagner, speaking about the various concerns from fans. "There are factions, ironically, of people who are worried the show will be woke - whatever that word means these days - and factions of people who worry it won't have the sensibility of the original games."

He goes on to describe the games as having, "Peak '90s, Adbusters, anti-corporate energy", adding, "The fact that it's being made on Amazon might give people pause."

However, it doesn't seem that he regrets putting the show on Amazon's streaming service. "For us, it was part of the appeal, the absurdity of that. That we get to tell a story about a world that bet big on mega-corporations and it collapsed and put it on Amazon is too delicious for words."

Outside of capturing the themes of Fallout, many will be looking forward to seeing the various factions recreated for live-action. Fellow showrunner Geneva Robertson-Dworet was aware of this going into the project, saying that they decided on having three main characters to best represent the groups across the wasteland. This gives us the vault dwellers through Lucy, the Brotherhood of Steel with Maximus, and the ghouls through, well, The Ghoul.

Fallout will premiere on April 11, exclusively via Prime Video. The first season runs for eight episodes.