Summary
Prime Video’sFalloutTV series adaptation debuted to great acclaim earlier in 2024, quickly providing a greenlight for another season. While it remains unclear when exactlyFalloutSeason 2 will move into production, the casting announcements are starting to roll in.
Falloutis Bethesda’s long-running post-apocalyptic role-playing video game franchise. The firstFalloutreleased in 1997 and has become a major blockbuster franchise in the years since, selling over 55 million copies. As Hollywood looks for more IP to adapt into films and series,Falloutwas an obvious choice thanks to its creative world and large fanbase. Amazon secured the rights to the series withWestworld’sJonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy attached to produce. Instead of adapting one specificFalloutgame, the Prime Video series tells its own unique story within the canon of the franchise, setting its plotin 2296 with a new set of characterseach providing a perspective onFallout’svast world.
Fallout Season 2 Gains A New Cast Member
Fallout’sfirst season received praise for its performances, withWalton Goggins’ performance as the Ghoulearning him an Emmy nomination for Best Actor in a Drama Series. It appearsFalloutplans to beef its cast up even further in Season 2, withDeadlinereporting that the latest actor to join the series is none other than Home Alone prodigy Macaulay Culkin. No official comments were given about Culkin’s new character, but he will allegedly play a crazy genius-type. Most recently Culkin has appeared in Season 10 ofAmerican Horror StoryandThe Righteous Gemstones, and provided voice roles inEntergalacticandThe Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy. In response to his casting inFallout, Culkin took to Instagram to share the announcement, saying“Yep. It’s happening.”
Who is Macaulay Culkin Playing in Fallout?
There’s no shortage of “crazy, genius-type” characters in theFalloutworld, with many of the world’s inhabitants driven mad by the impact of radiation or the apocalypse’s new world order. One exciting theory is that Culkin could be playinga character from New Vegas, a setting that was teased in the closing moments ofFalloutSeason 1. Fans are excited to return to the apocalyptic Las Vegas setting that was explored in 2010’sFallout: New Vegas, particularly as the series could provide answers to some long-gestating questions about the game’s ending.
Culkin will join the already stackedFalloutcast which includes Goggins, Ella Purnell (Lucy), Aaron Moten (Maximus), Kyle MacLachlan (Hank) and Moises Arias (Norm). A filming start date forFalloutSeason 2 is yet to be revealed. However, cast member Leslie Uggams (Betty)revealed to Screen Rantat New York Comic-Con that filming will apparently begin in November. However, Purnell had said a few weeks prior shehadn’t received scripts for Season 2yet and did not know when it would start filming, but perhaps development onFallouthas advanced quickly in the past month.
FalloutSeason 1 is now streaming on Prime Video. Season 2 is currently in development.
Fallout
Created by Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Amazon Prime Video’s Fallout is based on the post-apocalyptic RPG gaming franchise that started in the 1990s. Set hundreds of years after the Great War, Lucy leaves her Vault bunker to travel the Wasteland in search of her kidnapped father.
