“Fallout” has been confirmed for a second season.
The adaptation of the video game has already been approved for a Season 2, according to an announcement from the streaming service on Thursday. The renewal comes just over a week after the series debuted on Wednesday, April 10.
As of the first four days of its launch, Prime Video describes “Fallout” as being among the streamer’s top three most-watched titles ever and the most-watched season globally since “Rings of Power.”
Set 200 years after the apocalypse, the series follows “the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters [who] 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.”
Ella Purnell plays Lucy, an optimistic Vault-dweller in “Fallout” whose “peaceful and idealistic nature is tested when she is forced to the surface to rescue her father,” according to the official logline. Lucy encounters Maximus (Aaron Moten), a young soldier climbing the ranks of the Brotherhood of Steel, and bounty hunter the Ghoul (Walton Goggins) as they pursue an alluring artifact with the potential to change the world.
“Jonah, Lisa, Geneva and Graham have amazed the world with this ground-breaking, wild ride of a show,” said Jennifer Salke of Amazon MGM Studios in a statement about the news. “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 2 after only one week out and take viewers even farther into the surreal world of ‘Fallout.’”
“A big thanks to our incredibly talented showrunners, Geneva and Graham, to our amazing cast, to Todd and James and all the legends at Bethesda, and to Jen, Vernon and the fantastic team at Amazon for their incredible support of this show,” said Kilter Films’ Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. “We can’t wait to blow up the world all over again.”
Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner are the creators of the series and also serve as executive producers and co-showrunners. “Fallout,” which is from Amazon MGM Studios and Kilter Films, is also executive produced by Nolan and Joy, with Nolan directing the first three episodes. Other executive producers include Athena Wickham for Kilter Films, Todd Howard for Bethesda Game Studios and James Altman for Bethesda Softworks. The series is also produced in association with Bethesda Game Studios and Bethesda Softworks.
“Wow. Thank you to Jonah, Kilter, Bethesda, and Amazon for having the courage to produce a show that seriously addresses all of society’s most critical issues these days — cannibalism, incest, jello cake. More to come!,” said Robertson-Dworet and Wagner in a joint statement.
“It’s been one of the most spectacular projects we’ve ever been involved in. Jonah and team did such an incredible job, and we’re overjoyed not just by the reaction to the show, but that we get to work with these amazing people even more,” Howard added.
Season 1 of “Fallout” is now available for streaming on Prime Video.
