Variety is reporting that Amazon has received $25 million in California tax credits to relocate to the Golden State for Season 2. Amazon has not officially announced a second season for the post-apocalyptic series, but if the first season is as successful as envisioned, then I can't imagine we won't be spending more time in the post-nuclear wasteland.
Fallout was among numerous shows to receive tax incentives from the California Film Commission this week. As Variety notes, California's tax incentive is intended to lure away television shows that have started production in another state or overseas. The first season of Fallout was produced mostly in New York with some filming in Utah as well.
The California Film Commission estimates that filming a second season of Fallout could contribute $153 million in qualifying expenditures to the state and bring around 170 people in cast and crew.
But again, Prime Video has yet to officially greenlight a second season of Fallout, which is based on the popular video game franchise of the same name. And this tax incentive doesn't guarantee a second season will be greenlit either.
The site points out that Amazon was previously awarded $25 million to relocate the second season of Citadel to California, but eventually withdrew from the program. In that case, the money gets put back into the pool and reallocated for other shows.
There's also the chance that Fallout is a flop. While the initial trailers have looked promising, we haven't read any reviews of the series yet. If the series fails to gain traction among viewers, then it's possible that Amazon could simply pull the plug on the adaptation and end it after one season.
All this tax incentive does is make it more likely that if Amazon does renew Fallout for a second season, it will likely film in California. For now, though, there are reports that filming on Fallout Season 2 will begin in September, in Toronto.
Fallout is based on the popular video game series and comes from Kilter Films and executive producers Jonathan Nolan (who also directed the first three episodes) and Lisa Joy. Athena Wickham of Kilter Films also executive produces, along with Todd Howard for Bethesda Game Studios and James Altman for Bethesda Softworks. The series stars Ella Purnell (Yellowjackets), Aaron Moten (Emancipation), and Walton Goggins (The Hateful Eight).
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. Two-hundred 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.
Ella Purnell is Lucy, an optimistic Vault-dweller with an all-American can-do spirit. Her peaceful and idealistic nature is tested when she is forced to the surface to rescue her father. Aaron Moten is Maximus, a young soldier who rises to the rank of squire in the militaristic faction called Brotherhood of Steel. He will do anything to further the Brotherhood’s goals of bringing law and order to the wasteland. Walton Goggins is the Ghoul, a morally ambiguous bounty hunter who holds within him a 200-year history of the post-nuclear world. These disparate parties collide when chasing an artifact from an enigmatic researcher that has the potential to radically change the power dynamic in this world.
Fallout is set to debut on Prime Video on Wednesday, April 10 at 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET. All eight episodes in the season will drop at once, allowing you to binge the show in its entirety.