Is the Fallout TV show canon? Here’s what Bethesda’s Todd Howard and the showrunners have to say
A spoiler-free guide to how the ꩲPrime Video TV series fits into the games

Where some game adaptations – such as Halo – are set in their own universe and timeline, you might be surprised to discover just how entrenched Amazon’s 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Fallout TV show is with the in-game universe of Bethesda’s RP𒉰G series.
Not only is Bethesda’s Todd Howard involved ඣas executive producer, he and showrunners Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dwoerest have sp🍒oken at length about whether the Fallout TV show is canon.
Below, you’ll find a spoiler-free guide to just how the Prime Video series fits inside the game universe – which you can read alongside our guide to the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Fallout TV show timeline for the full picture.
Is the Fallout TV show canon?
In a word, yes – the Fallout TV show is canon to the games. It’s also the latest chronological entry in the franchise, being set in 2296. Not to spoil specifics, but it also continues on fr🅰om events found in earlier titles and fℱeatures familiar factions such as the Brotherhood of Steel.
"We view what’s h🌊appening in the show as canon," Bethesda director Todd Howard told . "That's what's great, when someone else looks at your work and then translates it in some fashion."
"It's a new story that comes, sort of, after the events we’ve seen in the games," co-showrunner Wagner said at a virtual press conference attended by GamesRadar+ on why they chose ൲not to adapt one of the ea🀅rlier games in the series.
"The show is built on like 25 years of creativity and thinking and building." Wagner added. "And we sort of thought the best thing to do is to continue that, versus retread it. Because that’s sort of what has worked with Fallout over the years. It&rs🌟quo;s traded hands, it’s changed, it’s been altered, and it’s a living thing. And yeah, we kind of felt like we ought to take a swing at trying to build a new piece on top of all of that."
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On top of that, executive producer Jonathan Nolan outlined how the TV show and games operate alongside each other 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:in an interview with Total Film magazine – even goin✱g as far as saying it’s "almost" like the Prime Video series is “Fallout 5.”
"Each of the [Fallout] game꧑s is a discrete st🐟ory – different city, distinct protagonist – within the same mythology. Our series sits in relation to the games as the games sit in relation to each other. It’s almost like we’re Fallout 5."
Co-showrunner Geneva Robertson-Dworet 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:also told SFX magazine that there was only one hard and fast rule handed dow🔴n from Todd H🥂oward: don’t contradict the games’ major endings. So, yep, this is about as canon as it gets.
Fallout, starring Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten, Walton Goggins, and Kyle MacLachlan, is now streami🎉ng on Prime Video. For more, check out the rest of our coverage:
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