Showing fairly the penchant for survivalist roles, Ella Purnell (star of Showtime’s plane-crash drama Yellowjackets) has signed onto one other with Amazon’s Fallout adaptation. And she’s no stranger to style: she was additionally in Zack Snyder’s Osautomobile “fan favorite” zombie flick Army of the Dead, and voices one of many children on Star Trek: Prodigy.

Purnell joins Walton Goggins, who was beforehand introduced as a lead within the collection based mostly on the Fallout video video games. Purnell’s position continues to be below wraps, as reported by Variety. The adaptation comes from Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, the minds behind Westworld, with Captain Marvel co-author Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Silicon Valley co-producer Graham Wagner connected as co-showrunners.

The Fallout video games are set in a post-apocalyptic world through which America has been almost destroyed in a late-Twenty first century world nuclear war. The catastrophic outcomes included plagues that created the Ghouls, a complicated form of zombie that the character performed by Goggins will possible be main. Purnell may very well be enjoying a “Vault Dweller,” people who’re surviving on the fringes of this world. Sources described her character to Variety as “upbeat and uncannily direct with an all-American can-do spirit. But an intensity in her eyes says she might just be a tiny bit dangerous.”

There’s no phrase on when Fallout would possibly begin streaming on Amazon Prime, however since Variety notes that production is because of kick off later this yr, 2023 looks like the earliest risk, with extra solid members more likely to be named to fill out the ensemble. If you’re in rapid want of a video game-inspired present in your life, nonetheless, the Halo collection kicked off very lately over on Paramount+, one thing to fill the time when you await Fallout and HBO’s The Last of Us and Amazon’s Mass Effect collection and all of the different variations lurking round on the market.

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