Walton Goggins and Fallout Producers Talk Genre Mixing

“Throughout my career, I’ve always found that you can always take an audience to a slightly darker place by telling them a few jokes along the way,” he says. Fall Executive producer/director Jonathan Nolan on the approach and tone of the multi-Emmy-nominated Prime Video drama in its debut season.

Joined by fellow executive producer and co-showrunner Graham Wagner and star Walton Goggins, Nolan spoke at the Deadline Contenders Television: The Nominees virtual event.

Portlandia The Wagner alumnus agrees with Nolan’s perspective on storytelling across genres.

“I think good drama has humor, and it always has,” the showrunner says. “As we’ve seen over the last 20 years, there can be great disasters and people will still be weird and strange and a little bit, I don’t like the word weird, but a little bit weird.”

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Created by Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Wagner, Prime Video Fall received 17 Emmy nominations last month, including outstanding actor in a drama series and outstanding lead actor in a drama series for his role as Goggins, latte for his dual roles as mutant bounty hunter Ghoul and pre-apocalypse Hollywood Western actor Cooper Howard.

The first season of the series, which has garnered nearly 100 million viewers worldwide since its April 10 premiere, based on the hit video game series from Bethesda Game Studios, has been renewed for a second season, coming 10 days after the second season finale Fall received a $25 million tax break from the state of California and will move to the Golden State for his sophomore season.

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Professionally and personally, Justified, Fair Gemstones AND The Hateful Eight Veterinarian Goggins admits two versions of the same character span 200 years Falltimeline was a lesson for him. “It was, you know, just a rare opportunity to understand how low someone had fallen and… what being exposed to the worst that humanity has to offer can do to a person’s psychology,” says Goggins, who also starred in the Prime Video film I am a Virgo last year.

Along with Goggins, Fall stars Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten. Kyle MacLachlan, Moisés Arias and Sarita Choudhury. Also appearing are Michael Emerson, Leslie Uggams, Frances Turner, Dave Register, Zach Cherry, Johnny Pemberton, Rodrigo Luzzi, Annabel O’Hagan and Xelia Mendes-Jones.

Robertson-Dworet and Wagner are acting Fall Executive producers, writers and co-creators of the series. Nolan and Lisa Joy are executive producers through Kilter Films as part of an overall deal with Amazon. Athena Wickham of Kilter Films is also an executive producer along with Todd Howard for Bethesda Game Studios and James Altman for Bethesda Softworks. Amazon and Kilter Films are producing in association with Bethesda Game Studios and Bethesda Softworks. Nolan directed the first three episodes of the epic series.

We invite you to watch the recording from the panel on Monday.