Fallout Season 2: Everything we know
Prime VideoFallout Season 2 is finally filming, so if you can’t wait for Amazon to announce a release date to take you back to the wasteland, here’s a rundown of what we know so far.
Just 53 years from now, America will be carpeted in ash and transformed into an irradiated wasteland, with millions annihilated, left to starve, or reduced to their most animalistic instincts… if you lived in Fallout’s timeline, that is. Hopefully, we’ll get Season 2 before then.
The new video game adaptation from Westworld’s Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy just premiered on Prime Video, introducing fans and newcomers alike to three new characters in the franchise: Lucy (Ella Purnell), a Vault 33 resident who ventures into the real for the first time; Maximus (Aaron Moten), a Brotherhood of Steel squire desperate to get his own power armor; and the Ghoul (Walton Goggins), a mutated gunslinger and bounty hunter.
If you already binged the whole thing earlier this year, we know you’ll be desperate for Fallout Season 2.
Is there a Fallout Season 2 release date?
No, Fallout Season 2 doesn’t have a release date right now — however, all things going well, it wouldn’t be out of the question to expect it in 2025, but a 2026 release is also possible.
In an update with The Hollywood Reporter, Wagner revealed they’re putting their foot on the gas to get things done.
“But we are going as fast as we possibly can, and we’ve got a lot of heavy lifting from Season 1 already done. We have sets, assets, visual effects, that are already done. We are hitting the ground running this season. We’re going to be pedal to the metal to get season two out as fast as humanly possible,” he explained.
In October 2024, cast member Leslie Uggams revealed at the New York Comic Con [via Screen Rant] that production in Season 2 would begin in November 2024.
Walton Goggins confirmed on Instagram that he’s “back in the saddle” as the Ghoul. “Gatdamn it feels good to slip on this skin. I do this sh*t for the love of the Game,” he wrote.
We had been quite confident prior to the announcement that the show would be coming back for Season 2, but the reason is pretty boring. As per Deadline, Fallout had received a $25 million tax credit to relocate its set from New York State to California (which makes even more sense, given that’s where the series takes place).
This did indicate that the team behind Fallout had been given the go-ahead. It also didn’t hurt that Nolan and co. appeared quietly confident they’d be returning to the wasteland for another chapter.
“We’ve had some really cool conversations about it but, for now, we’re concentrating on one great season of television. If there are enough people out there who love it, and we’re lucky to get the chance to go again, then we’ll be playing in the same space, but not necessarily with the same elements,” Nolan told TechRadar.
Graham Wagner, the show’s co-writer alongside Geneva Roberston-Dworet, also revealed to Collider that they’ve signed “overall deals”, and work has already begun on the second season.
Fallout Season 2 filming delays
Production for Fallout Season 2 was expected to begin on January 8, 2025, but this was delayed due to massive wildfires that began burning in LA County on January 7, 2024. The LA County Fire Department withdrew permits for filming in Altadena, La Crescenta, La Canada/Flintridge, and Unincorporated Pasadena.
Along with several other TV shows, this ban has impacted the production of Fallout Season 2. At the time of writing, the show’s second season is scheduled to resume production on February 10, 2025, but that date is dependent on whether the fires can be brought under control in time.
Fallout Season 2 cast
The first major casting to be confirmed for season 2 of Fallout is huge news for Home Alone fans. That’s right; Macaulay Culkin will be in the next season of Fallout.
As revealed by Deadline, Culkin will reportedly play a crazy genius-type character, which is very fitting within the Fallout universe.
While unconfirmed, we’d expect the Fallout Season 2 cast to include:
- Ella Purnell as Lucy MacLean
- Aaron Moten as Maximus
- Walton Goggins as The Ghoul / Cooper Howard
- Kyle MacLachlan as Hank MacLean
- Moisés Arias as Norm
- Leslie Uggams as Betty
- Zach Cherry as Woody
In a press release, Moten said: “It’s extremely faithful to the video game IP, but it really is different. I think people will hopefully get the same spark of joy that I have watching the show, which is finally something
I haven’t seen [before].”
Purnell is keen to return too. “By the end of the season, she is a changed woman. And I suppose I am excited to explore two things: Number one, will Lucy ever be the same? Will she ever be able to go back to the vault? It’s kind of like the red pill vs. blue pill thing, once you have seen can you ever unsee?”
“The second thing is I think her heart has been shattered and her moral goodness is decaying. She has had to do things that are unthinkable, and I don’t know if she’s going to be okay or if she’s ever going to return to the Lucy we knew. What happens when you break the unbreakable? That’s when something really dangerous occurs, I think. I have so many more questions!”
Fallout Season 2 plot: New Vegas setting teased
Obsidian EntertainmentPlot details for Fallout Season 2 haven’t been revealed, but the ending of season 1 teased that the series may be shifting to an iconic location from the video game franchise, New Vegas.
Of all the Fallout games, New Vegas holds a special place in the heart of many gamers. Its expansive location, interesting story, and replayability make it a go-to game for plenty of Fallout fans.
While the showrunners all but confirmed season 2 will take place in New Vegas, they’ve made sure to let fans know not to expect the setting to be the exact same as the game.
“All we really want the audience to know is that things have happened, so that there isn’t an expectation that we pick the show up in season two, following one of the myriad canon endings that depend on your choices when you play [Fallout: New Vegas],” Wagner revealed in an interview with GQ.
Given the Fallout TV series is set 15 years after the event of New Vegas, the area will be filled with even more devastation that Lucy and company will need to navigate their way through.
Wagner added in the same interview, “With that post-credits stuff, we really wanted to imply, guys, the world has progressed, and the idea that the wasteland stays as it is decade-to-decade is preposterous to us. It’s just a place [of] constant tragedy, events, horrors — there’s a constant churn of trauma. We’re definitely implying more has occurred.”
However, this doesn’t mean Fallout season 2’s New Vegas setting won’t include some familiar locations or landmarks. A leaked photo from the season 2 set teased that the show may feature the iconic Dinky the T-Rex.
Dinky is the roadside mascot of Novac in New Vegas and is a major landmark when traveling to the city from Goodsprings. Given filming is underway, more details regarding the show’s plot and location for season 2 will likely emerge in the coming months.
In the meantime, you can check out our Fallout Season 1 review, more details about its cast and characters, its incredible soundtrack, and our list of the best TV shows of 2024.