'Fallout' Renewed For Season 2 By Prime Video
Walton Goggins boggins he’ll be getting more time as The Ghoul
The New California Republic may be long gone in the world of Fallout, but production on the hit Prime Video series adaptation is definitely going California dreaming. Season 2 has officially been ordered by the streamer, and with it, the show has clinched $25 million in tax credits from the state’s film commission by moving there.
The series, created by executive producers and showrunners Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner, adapts the video game franchise and is set two hundred years after the apocalypse is brought on by corporate greed, following “the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters that are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind—and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and highly violent universe waiting for them” according to the official description. Executive producers Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, under an overall deal at Amazon via their company Kilter Films, celebrated with this statement: “Praise be to our insanely brilliant showrunners, Geneva and Graham, to our kick-ass cast, to Todd and James and all the legends at Bethesda, and to Jen, Vernon and the amazing team at Amazon for their incredible support of this show. We can’t wait to blow up the world all over again”. Athena Wickham of Kilter Films also executive produces while Todd and James in the statement are Todd Howard for Bethesda Game Studios and James Altman for Bethesda Softworks. Amazon MGM Studios produces in association with these corporate parties.
The Jen in the statement was Amazon MGM Studios head Jennifer Salke, who had this to say: “Jonah, Lisa, Geneva, and Graham have captivated the world with this ground-breaking, wild ride of a show. The bar was high for lovers of this iconic video game and so far we seem to have exceeded their expectations, while bringing in millions of new fans to the franchise. The cast led by Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten, Walton Goggins, and Kyle MacLachlan have knocked it out of the park! We’d like to thank Jonah and Lisa and our friends at Bethesda for bringing the show to us as well as Geneva and Graham for coming aboard as showrunners. We are thrilled to announce season two after only one week out and take viewers even farther into the surreal world of Fallout.” Purnell plays Lucy, a vault dweller in pursuit of her father Hank, played by McLachlan. Moten plays Maximus, a squire of the Brotherhood of Steel who Lucy takes up as an ally, while Goggins becomes gunslinging bounty hunter The Ghoul, mutating from having been actor Cooper Howard before the bombs. The cast also includes Evil’s Michael Emerson, Hannah Montana’s Moises Arias, and Deadpool’s Leslie Uggams, as well as Sarita Choudhury, Frances Turner, Dave Register, Zach Cherry, Johnny Pemberton, Rodrigo Luzzi, Annabel O’Hagan, and Xelia Mendes-Jones.
The renewal comes just about a week after premiere Amazon had claimed Fallout ranks in the top three most-watched Prime Video titles ever and the platform’s most-watched TV season since The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Then the ratings came in Friday, and it revealed the show had logged just under 2.5 billion minutes watched. That’s across eight episodes that total 473 minutes of running time and equates to ~5.2 million views. Views were up 773% from its first day+ of availability from a domestic April 10 evening release, which had 285 million minutes watched.
