“Praise be to our insanely brilliant showrunners, Geneva [Robertson-Dworet] and Graham [Wagner], to our kick-ass cast, to Todd and James and all the legends at Bethesda, and to Jen, Vernon and the amazing team at Amazon for their incredible support of this show,” Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy of Kilter Films said said in a joint statement. “We can’t wait to blow up the world all over again.”
The showrunners added: “Holy sh*t. Thank you to Jonah, Kilter, Bethesda and Amazon for having the courage to make a show that gravely tackles all of society’s most serious problems these days — cannibalism, incest, jello cake. More to come!”
Based on the video game series by Bethesda Game Studios, Fallout is the story of haves and have-nots in a world where there is almost nothing left to have. Two hundred years after the apocalypse, the gentle inhabitants of luxury bomb shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hell their ancestors left behind and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, cheerfully strange and deeply violent universe awaits them.
The series stars Ella Purnell as Lucy, an optimistic Vault resident with an all-American can-do spirit. Her peaceful and idealistic nature is tested when she must reach the surface to save her father. Aaron Moten is Maximus, a young soldier who rises to become a squire in the militaristic Brotherhood of Steel faction. He does everything he can to achieve the Brotherhood's goal of bringing order and peace to the wasteland.
Walton Goggins is the Ghoul, a morally ambiguous bounty hunter who carries a 200-year history of the post-nuclear world. These disparate factions collide as they pursue an artifact from an enigmatic researcher that could revolutionize the power dynamics in this world.
“It’s been one of the most spectacular projects we’ve ever been a part of,” said Todd Howard, executive producer at Bethesda Game Studios. “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.”
The series' cast also includes 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.
Athena Wickham of Kilter Films also produces for Bethesda Game Studios and James Altman for Bethesda Softworks. Amazon MGM Studios and Kilter Films are producing in association with Bethesda Game Studios and Bethesda Softworks.
“Jonah, Lisa, Geneva, and Graham have captivated the world with this ground-breaking, wild ride of a show,” Jennifer Salke, head of Amazon MGM Studios, said in a statement. “The bar was high for lovers of this iconic video game, and so far we seem to have exceeded their expectations while bringing in millions of new fans to the franchise. The cast led by Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten, Walton Goggins and Kyle MacLachlan have knocked it out of the park."
"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.”
