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Amazon's 'Fallout' Season 2 Adds Macaulay Culkin To The Post-Apocalypse Frey
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‘Fallout’ Season 2 Adds Macaulay Culkin To The Post-Apocalypse Frey

One of the biggest surprises of 2024 was how fun and entertaining Amazon‘s “Fallout” series was, along with being able to properly adapt the satirical sci-fi video game world, which led it to become one of the more popular originals on the streaming service. “Fallout” season two has now added a familiar face to the call sheet as Macaulay Culkin has nabbed an unnamed part on the show.

While details of his character are limited, they did describe him as a “crazy genius,” which could mean more experiments gone wrong and wasteland creatures. Without spoiling the last season, the second one is expected to move from the Los Angeles area to New Vegas, the setting of an established video game.

Culkin now joins Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten, Walton Goggins, Kyle MacLachlan, Moisés Arias, Sarita Choudhury, Michael Emerson, Leslie Uggams, Frances Turner, Dave Register, Zach Cherry, Johnny Pemberton, Rodrigo Luzzi, Annabel O’Hagan, and Xelia Mendes-Jones.

Macaulay Culkin, Walton Goggins | Pressroom

The former child actor and sibling of Kieran Culkin (“Succession”) has been getting back into the acting world more frequently lately, showing up on TV projects recently like “American Horror Story” and “Righteous Gemstones.” Funny enough, in the latter, he plays the estranged son of Walton Goggins’ goofy televangelist character, Baby Billy Freeman, which could be a strong reason he’s been added to the new season of “Fallout,” given that Goggins plays a significant lead in the series after nabbing an Emmy nomination (one of 16 the show earned for season one) thanks to his portrayal of the Ghoul.

“Based on one of the greatest video game series of all time, Fallout is the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. 200 years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters 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.”

SOURCE: DEADLINE

'Fallout' Season 2 Officially Announced By Amazon, Wasteland Series Will Continue
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‘Fallout’ Season 2 Officially Announced By Amazon As Wasteland Series Is Heading To New Vegas

Today, Amazon Prime Video has made it official via social media posts that their post-apocalypse series, with a satirical flare, will be returning for a second season. “Fallout” takes place 200+ years after nukes engulfed a fictional retro-futuristic world, leading a portion of humanity to hunker down in corporate-built self-sustaining bunker communities called Vaults.

This announcement was sort of telegraphed by a report from the California Film Commission that revealed that “Fallout” has been approved to relocate to California and earn tax credits to shoot a second season there, suggesting that it was already a foregone conclusion ahead of the show’s release this month.

The cast of “Fallout” consists of Ella Purnell, Walton Goggins, Aaron Clifton Moten, Kyle MacLachlan, Leslie Uggams, Zach Cherry, Frances Turner, Annabel O’Hagan, Moises Arias, Jon Daly, and Johnny Pemberton.

In the first season, Lucy (Purnell) leaves Vault 33 to find her kidnapped father after a group of raiders break into the Vault and cause chaos. Lucy navigates an increasingly hostile wasteland that leads to her bumping into The Ghoul (Goggins), an unkillable bounty hunter with a mysterious past that links him to Vault-Tech as he’s been kicking around since before the nukes dropped. Another character introduced is Maximus, a good-intentioned young soldier who happens to be trying to find a foothold in a fascist religious cult that is armed to the teeth that are trying to control the wasteland and what technology the population has access to.

Without spoiling too much about how the show ends, there is a connection to “Fallout: New Vegas,” which should play out in season two.

SOURCE: AMAZON PRIME VIDEO

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Director Lisa Joy Teases Follow-Up To Her Cyberpunk Film ‘Reminiscence’ Starring Hugh Jackman

Westworld’s Lisa Joy is making her feature film directorial debut with the cyberpunk thriller Reminiscence that will hit theaters and HBO Max on August 20. While speaking with Empire Magazine, the filmmaker briefly teased some ideas she is developing for a follow-up movie, but isn’t calling it a sequel but a “cousin.”

“It’s a distant cousin, not a sequel. It’s an evolution in theme and a conception of the world and man’s place within it. Plus, there’s a lot of action. I wanted to create a new type of action,” teases Joy. “It’s taking different bits from different cultures and kind of fusing a new way of approaching action that I think will be exciting,” Lisa Joy teased to Empire about her plans for an untitled second film.

At one time, there was going to be a Black Cat (a Spider-Man character) movie at Sony Pictures written by Lisa Joy before the project was altered to be team-up film Silver & Black to be directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood (The Old Guard). The Marvel project ultimately was killed and the fate of the character in future films is up in the air.

Joy is behind the Amazon Prime Video series adaptation of the William Gibson cyberpunk novel The Peripheral and is also developing a series based on the beloved video game franchise Fallout.

REMINISCENCE – Nick Bannister (Jackman), a private investigator of the mind, navigates the darkly alluring world of the past by helping his clients access lost memories. Living on the fringes of the sunken Miami coast, his life is forever changed when he takes on a new client, Mae (Ferguson). A simple matter of lost and found becomes a dangerous obsession. As Bannister fights to find the truth about Mae’s disappearance, he uncovers a violent conspiracy, and must ultimately answer the question: how far would you go to hold on to the ones you love?

SOURCE: EMPIRE

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‘Fallout’ Series Officially Coming To Amazon – Produced By ‘Westworld’s Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan

Another high-concept and potentially expense series is coming to Amazon Prime Video.

Today, game developer Bethesda announced that they’re partnering with Amazon Studios and Kilter Films to bring to life a live-action series based on the beloved post-apocalypse video game franchise Fallout.

They’ve hired Westworld series co-creators and showrunners Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan to develop the show for the streaming service via Kilter Films and will act as producers. Nolan is also known as a screenwriter working on his brother Christopher Nolan’s films such as Interstellar, The Prestige, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises.

Here is the press release.

Amazon Studios has licensed the rights to the worldwide best-selling game franchise Fallout, with acclaimed producers Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s Kilter Films attached to produce the project, currently in development with a series commitment.

The world of Fallout is one where the future envisioned by Americans in the late 1940s explodes upon itself through a nuclear war in 2077. The magic of the Fallout world is the harshness of the wasteland set against the previous generation’s utopian idea of a better world through nuclear energy. It is serious and harsh in tone, yet sprinkled with moments of ironic humor and B-movie-nuclear-fantasies.Fallout games have achieved record-setting sales and received hundreds of awards, including dozens of Game of the Year awards, while its mobile game, Fallout Shelter, has been downloaded more than 170 million times.

Fallout is from Amazon Studios and Kilter Films in association with Bethesda Game Studios and Bethesda Softworks, with executive producers Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, and Athena Wickham for Kilter Films, Todd Howard for Bethesda Game Studios, and James Altman for Bethesda Softworks.

The pair’s Kilter Films is also in pre-production on their series adaptation of the William Gibson cyberpunk novel The Peripheral.

Lisa Joy recently made her feature film directorial debut with her sci-fi thriller Reminiscence for Warner Bros. starring Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson, and Thandie Newton.

This is yet another high-profile series in development at Amazon Prime Video as they’re about to resume production on their fantasy shows such as The Lord of The Rings and The Wheel of Time.

If successful, I’m curious if Amazon Studios will also attempt to license the rights for Doom and Skyrim in the future to give those properties series adaptations as well.

SOURCE: BETHESDA