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Fallout Season 2 is moving along for some more post-apocalyptic fun.
Recently, showrunners Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner discussed what to expect on Season 2 with THR during a panel and how quickly it's coming together. Also, they chatted about how it's become such a hit show and their reaction to the fandom behind it all.
About Fallout
The series on Prime Video is based on the same game that covers the aftermath of the Great War of 2077, which consisted of a nuclear exchange between the U.S. and China. A lot of survivors reestablished themselves in fallout shelters, known as Vaults, where each one — unbeknownst to many — performed sociological and psychological experiments on behalf of Vault-Tec. When skipping ahead 200 years later to 2296, a young lady named Lucy (Ella Purnell) leaves Vault 33 and seeks out the wasteland for her kidnapped father. Along the journey, she meets a squire, Maximus (Aaron Moten), and encounters The Goul (Walton Goggins), a once-famous Hollywood actor turned bounty hunter.
Luckily for fans, the series' creators are “going as fast as” they “possibly can” to release the new season.
Fallout showrunners discuss what's ahead
“The popularity of the show is an immense surprise,” Wagner said. “We didn't make this show for everyone. We made it for ourselves, and that was an important part of the approach. But you never know how that's going to go.”
They had a lot to say when asked about what they learned about writing the first season and what they could apply to the second season.
“So many things were discovered in writing, shooting and in post,” Robertson-Dworet said. “It was a huge relief to us to know that Ella is an incredible performer who makes sure that Lucy is not annoying. We were very scared that our main character was a bit annoying because she's a very privileged person and we kind of resent her for that. She comes from the world of haves and she goes into a world of have nots, and she certainly starts the season thinking she knows better than them and being a little judgy of the people she meets for what they are willing to do to survive. Knowing that people are open to Max being a morally ambiguous character is always appreciated. But what I'm really excited to continue in Season 2 is that blend of tones, that this show can have sitcom moments that are juxtaposed with people shooting each other.”
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Also noted is that director Jonathan Nolan said that Season 2 “will be playing in the same space, but not necessarily with the same elements.”
In response to that, Robertson-Dworet said, “I think what Jonah was maybe alluding to is there are 25 years of Fallout games. There were so many things that we were not able to put in the show that we really desperately wanted that are either brilliant ideas for characters, creatures, set pieces. We're always going to be bringing in new things from the Fallout mythology as we move forward with the show.”
Regarding when season 2 will be out, Wagner said they “are going as fast as we possibly can, and we've got a lot of heavy lifting from Season 1 already done.” Also, he said, ‘we're going to be pedal to the metal to get season two out as fast as humanly possible.”
‘FALLOUT’ Season 2 is still in early development but will be “out as fast as humanly possible”
“We are going as fast as we possibly can, and we’ve got a lot of heavy lifting from Season 1 already done”
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Plus, the showrunner said on the panel, “And there are so many things we wanted to do in Season 1 where we were like, ‘That would be amazing, let's do that in Season 2.'” So it feels like we're so much farther along and it's honestly really exciting and we're just really grateful to have the opportunity to bring to the screen all the things that didn't quite fit in Season 1. We're excited to get to now do those now.”
Season 2 of Fallout currently doesn't have a release date, but the team is working as quickly as ever to have it come to Prime as soon as possible.
