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Fallout on Prime Video: your guide to the wackiest video-game adaptation in town

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Take one nuclear apocalypse, add a devastated wasteland, a society cleaved in two, mutated monsters, a whole lot of violence and tie it all together with the creator of Westworld. Welcome to Fallout, Prime Video’s newest blockbuster TV series – it’s dystopian sci-fi, but not as we know it.

Of course, it’s not just TV. The Fallout franchise is one of gaming’s most iconic and has been going for more than 20 years. Set in a retro futurist America, 200 years after a massive nuclear apocalypse wiped out most of the earth’s population in 2077, its sprawling world and largely anonymous heroes mean it’s never been adapted for screen before.

That is, until , the creator of Westworld and brother of director Christopher, came along. Naturally, Nolan is a,” he says.

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