Amazon’s upcoming Fallout TV series has reportedly cast Walton Goggins as a ghoul-like character. Variety reports that Justified and The Righteous Gemstones actor will play one of the lead roles, which will be a character based on the ghouls from the Bethesda video game series.
This won’t be Goggins’ first video game project, as he already starred as a villain in 2018’s Tomb Raider.
According to Variety, filming on the Fallout TV series will begin later this year, but as of yet, Goggins is the only cast member to be revealed for the project. Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, two of the key creatives behind HBO’s Westworld, are executive producers on the Fallout series. Nolan will direct Episode 1.
Todd Howard and Jason Altman from Bethesda are executive producers. As for the Fallout game series, 2018’s Fallout 76 is the latest entry in the series. Developer Bethesda Game Studios’ next project is Starfield, which releases in November 2022.
The Fallout TV series is one of a handful of upcoming video game productions in the works at Amazon. Just this week, Amazon signed dj2 Entertainment to a first-look deal to create gaming content for Prime Video, including potential adaptations of Life Is Strange and Disco Elysium.
It’s been busy days for video game projects in Hollywood, as Sony’s Uncharted movie hits theaters today, February 18, while Netflix just announced a BioShock movie.
