Walton Goggins says 'Fallout' season 2 will blow the first 'out of the water.' Here's everything we know about it.
The first season of Amazon's "Fallout" ends on a cliffhanger that teases an iconic location from the games. Here's what we know about season two.
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- Amazon's "Fallout" ends on a cliffhanger that teases an iconic location from the games.
- Walton Goggins said season two will blow the first 'out of the water.'
- Here's what to know about the future of "Fallout."
"Fallout" brings the post-apocalyptic world of the award-winning video games to life, and Amazon renewed the show for a second season just nine days after it was released.
It takes place 200 years after a nuclear war decimated the U.S. and revolves around Lucy MacLean (Ella Purnell), who was raised in an underground bunker that protected her ancestors from radiation.
When her father, Hank MacLean (Kyle MacLachlan), is kidnapped by invaders from the outside world, Lucy leaves the safety of the shelter to try to save him.
In the last five years, Amazon has found success by adapting well-known properties into TV shows, including "The Boys," "Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power," "Reacher," "Good Omens," and "Invincible."
But "Fallout" marks the first time the company has adapted a video game into a live-action series, and judging by the hugely positive critical reaction, the gamble has paid off. So it's no surprise that Amazon announced that the show will return.
Here's what to know about "Fallout" season two.
'Fallout' season 2 has been filming since November 2024
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In April 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that Amazon moved production of season two from New York to Los Angeles to receive a $25 million tax credit.
The show briefly paused production in January when the Pacific Palisades wildfire damaged Los Angeles, but filming has since resumed.
In February, Walton Goggins, who plays the Ghoul/Cooper Howard in the show, told Deadline: "We're in the middle of filming it right now, we've been at it since November, and I can tell you that I thought Season one was extraordinary. Personally, I was very pleased with it.
"This blows it out of the water, what these writers have done and the artisans that have come together to tell this story. It's really gonna be something, I can't wait for people to see it. We're working really hard to make that happen."
The streamer hasn't confirmed a release date for "Fallout" season two, but with filming underway now, it seems likely that it'll arrive in early 2026 once post-production has finished.
Filming for season one appears to have started in July 2022, an archived listing on the industry job site, Stunt Access.com, suggests. Then, in March 2023, Goggins told fans on Instagram that he had wrapped filming. So the whole show took just under two years to make, from start to release.
It seems likely 'Fallout' season 2 will visit a classic location from a beloved game
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The end of season one revealed that Hank is actually employed by Vault-Tec, the company that built all the Vaults, and he's still working to ensure that the company is successful in the post-apocalypse. This is a bitter pill to swallow for Lucy now that she's seen how the world was devastated by the war.
Hank leaves Lucy and Maximus (Aaron Moten) by flying away in a damaged set of power armor. But in the closing moments of the season, audiences see him stomping through the desert toward an iconic location from the games: New Vegas.
The 2010 game, "Fallout: New Vegas," takes place in and around the city, which has been rebuilt following the nuclear war. It's one of the most beloved games in the franchise, and fans are clearly excited about the potential of seeing it in live action.
