The upcoming Fallout series on Amazon Prime has cast a new lead character. According to Deadline, Ella Purnell has booked a starring role in the highly-anticipated video game adaptation.
Details are still under wraps, but it sounds like Purnell is playing a character named Jean, a “young woman with a can-do attitude,” which should come in handy as she navigates the show’s post-apocalyptic landscape. However, she also “may be hiding a dangerous secret” about herself.
Purnell most recently appeared as a series regular on Showtime’s Yellowjackets and she also played a major role in Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead. Purnell has also lent her talents to Netflix’s Arcane animated series and Paramount+’s Star Trek: Prodigy as the voice of Jinx and Gwyn, respectively. Some of her other credits include Churchill, Maleficent, and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.
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Last month, Walton Goggins reportedly joined Fallout’s cast as a Ghoul, a human suffering from prolonged radiation exposure. The series is one of several video game adaptations that Amazon is currently developing. Live-action series based on Mass Effect and God of War are also in the works.
Amazon has been trying to get a Fallout series off the ground since 2020. Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy (the co-creators of HBO’s Westworld) are executive producing the adaptation through their Kilter Films banner alongside Athena Wickham. Additionally, Nolan will direct the series’ first episode. Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner are co-showrunning the project with an eye to start filming sometime this year.
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