Shock, however no shock: X Chairman and SpaceX founder Elon Musk made a cameo at Prime Video‘s Fallout expertise on SXSW Thursday evening.
Whereas not an on a regular basis prevalence in Hollywood, it wasn’t surprising to see Musk tonight as he’s a longtime associates with Fallout EP and director Jonathan Nolan. No to say, Musk reportedly lives within the Austin, TX space.
In truth, Nolan sat down for a protracted dialog with Musk again at SXSW 2018 through which they canvassed a number of subjects together with SpaceX’s timeline for Mars exploration in addition to hopes for an underground high-speed transportation system in Los Angeles. This all culminated with Musk and his brother singing a rendition of “My Little Butter Cup” from the Steve Martin-Chevy Chase-Martin Brief Nineteen Eighties comedy, The Three Amigos (watch beneath). It was a trippy expertise that bears repeating, particularly as a result of we want a post-pandemic replace on SpaceX’s Mars mission.
Tonight, Musk waltzed casually into the outside apocalyptic western facade from Fallout, kindly exchanging greetings with bystanders earlier than taking part in with among the expertise’s carnival stands. This all occurred moments after these attending watched the most recent trailers in addition to quarter-hour from the present, which debuts on April 12.
Amazon has a historical past of dazzling at fanboy features. On the first San Diego Comedian Con post-pandemic in 2022, they handled the press to a flowery dinner with the solid and creators of Lord of the Rings full with a choral and chamber music efficiency of Bear McCreary’s rating.
Based mostly on the online game collection of the identical identify, Fallout is the story of haves and have-nots in a world through which there’s nearly nothing left to have. Two-hundred years after the apocalypse, the light denizens of luxurious fallout shelters are compelled to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind—and are shocked to find an extremely advanced, gleefully bizarre, and extremely violent universe ready for them. Set sooner or later post-apocalyptic Los Angeles and the world of Fallout, the collection is an unique story that will probably be a part of the canon of the video games.
The solid is led by Ella Purnell within the position of Lucy; Aaron Moten within the position of Maximus; Walton Goggins performs The Ghoul; and Kyle MacLachlan performs Overseer Hank.
The Fallout franchise has posted document gross sales and acquired a number of Sport of the Yr awards, whereas its cell recreation, Fallout Shelter, has been downloaded greater than 170 million occasions.
The collection comes from Kilter Movies and EPs Nolan and Lisa Pleasure. Nolan directed the primary three episodes. Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner function EPs, writers and co-showrunners. Athena Wickham of Kilter Movies additionally government produces, together with Todd Howard for Bethesda Sport Studios and James Altman for Bethesda Softworks.
Amazon MGM Studios and Kilter Movies produce in affiliation with Bethesda Sport Studios and Bethesda Softworks.
Tomorrow evening, Amazon Studios is kicking off SXSW with the world premiere of Doug Liman’s Highway Home on the Paramount Theatre.
That mesmerizing Nolan-Musk sitdown from 2018:
