Summary
TheFalloutTV series trailer debuted last week, and fans quickly spotted changes and extra footage in international versions of Prime Video’s preview.
Based on the video game series of the same name, Prime Video’sFalloutTV series similarly depicts a post-apocalyptic alternate-history world in which advances in nuclear technology led to a retrofuturistic society and a resource war prompted by an energy crisis. TheFalloutTV series trailerintroduced viewers to Ella Purnell’s Lucy, a descendent of original survivors who survived the nuclear exchange by taking refuge in fallout bunkers known as Vaults.
TheFalloutTV series trailerfollowed Lucy as she ventured into a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, encountering hostile figures and challenges. Prime Video released multiple versions of the trailer, and fans spotted a few changes, including alternate shots and additional footage. For instance, the U.S. version of theFalloutTV series trailer features a shot of a T-60 and NCR soldier about to collide amid a battle. However, the JapaneseFalloutTV series trailer replaces this shot with footage of the T-60 smashing the soldier into a table during the same battle.
The JapaneseFalloutTV series includes added footage, such as a shot with a character observing a glowing vile that Twitter user@FalloutTV_YTbelieves could contain concentrated Forced Evolutionary Virus, an artificial virus featured in the games. There’s also a shot of Purnell’s Lucy being lassoed by a rope and seemingly about to be pulled away. Less noticeable and arguably less consequential in international versions of theFalloutTV series trailer is an extra shot of Lucy talking with the old lady in the store. Fans can only speculate about the reasons for these differences; changes between versions of the same trailer are not uncommon, as seen when theX-Men ‘97trailer on Disney Plusadded an extra shot of Rogue and Gambit.
Regardless of these differences, all versions of theFalloutTV series trailer won over most fans. While theFalloutTV series tells an original story set with the same continuity as the video games (as opposed to adapting a specific game in the franchise) the trailer demonstrated that series co-creator Geneva Robertson-Dworet and executive producers Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan understand the franchise’s aesthetics and themes. If there was any doubt, theFalloutTV series’ creators had to cut plansto avoid clashing with ideas Todd Howard developed forFallout 5, suggesting they shared a similar understanding of where the franchise could go.
With roughly a month until theFalloutTV series premieres on Prime Video, fans are undoubtedly hoping for more promotional material to confirm their faith in the show is merited. The franchise has a passionate fan base that likely hopes theFalloutTV series can join HBO’sThe Last of Us, Paramount’sSonic the Hedgehogmovies, and Chris Pratt’sThe Super Mario Bros. Movieon the list of successful video game adaptations, and perhaps even exceed them.
TheFalloutTV series premieres on Prime Video on Jul 15, 2025.
Fallout
Fallout is a post-apocalyptic RPG franchise created by Interplay Entertainment and developed by Black Isle Studios before Bethesda Softworks took over the IP in 2004. The series features a retrofuturistic style following a nuclear war that devastated the game’s world. Players typically inhabit a Vault Dweller, someone who stays safe in an underground shelter, appearing in the post-apocalyptic world where a problem needs to be solved. While the older games were more tactical RPGs, Fallout 3 took the franchise into the first-person shooter genre while retaining the RPG elements.
