‘Fallout’ Finds its Lead in ‘Yellowjackets’ Star Ella Purnell
Ella Purnell will be headlining Amazon’s Fallout series.
The news have arrived via Deadline, who don’t have many details besides a brief description that describes her character as “a young woman with a can-do attitude who may be hiding a dangerous secret.” She joins TV and big-screen veteran Walton Goggins, who is also believed to be playing a major character.
Purnell recently received a sizable amount of attention thanks to her participation in Showtime’s Yellowjackets, as well as an important role in Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead, although many viewers might remember her from Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and Maleficent. She’s been around for a while, amassing an impressive curriculum in a rather short amount of time.
Much like the games from which it draws inspiration, the Fallout series will explore a world “where the future envisioned by Americans in the late 1940s explodes upon itself through a nuclear war in 2077.” The plot of the show could go in many different directions, and the same goes for the tone, so it’ll be interesting to see which elements from the games are included in this new iteration of the famous universe.
Jonathan Nolan is executive producing the show, as well as directing the pilot episode, alongside Lisa Joy and Athena Wickham for Kilter Films, Fallout gaming boss Todd Howard for Bethesda Game Studios, and James Altman for Bethesda Softworks.
Francisco J. Ruiz is that guy who has watched Jurassic Park a thousand times and loves Star Wars. His hunger for movies is only matched by his love for video games. He graduated in English Studies from the University of Malaga, in Spain. As he keeps writing about what he enjoys (and doesn’t) for websites all over, he’s continuing his studies.
