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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