Filming on Season 2 of Amazon Prime Video's Fallout series is underway and we now have our first look at what appears to be its new setting. If you recall, the ending of the show's first season strongly hinted that the post-apocalyptic adventure will take us to New Vegas for its second season, speculation which has since been strongly hinted at by showrunners Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet and now seemingly confirmed with leaked set footage.
Leaked footage from the set of Fallout Season 2 was shared by TikTok user onzo1313. Multiple videos were uploaded showing off the bright lights of New Vegas, including the iconic Lucky 38 resort and casino as well as The Tops. The footage suggests that the series will show us the strip both pre- and post-war.
New Vegas is one of the most iconic locations in the Fallout video game series and is the primary setting of Fallout: New Vegas. While fans will be excited to see the iconic location brought to life in the television series, co-showrunner Graham Wagner previously suggested that it won't be exactly how we remember it from the video game. The live-action series is set more than 15 years after Fallout: New Vegas, and Wagner acknowledged that a lot can change in the wastelands over time.
All we really want the audience to know is that things have happened, so that there isn't an expectation that we pick the show up in season two, following one of the myriad canon endings that depend on your choices when you play [Fallout: New Vegas].
With that post-credits stuff, we really wanted to imply, Guys, the world has progressed, and the idea that the wasteland stays as it is decade-to-decade is preposterous to us. It’s just a place [of] constant tragedy, events, horrors — there's a constant churn of trauma. We're definitely implying more has occurred. Geneva, have I [frick]ed anything up with that?
Season 1 of Fallout premiere on Amazon's Prime Video in April of last year. The live-action series receiving critical acclaim and was Certified Ferh on Rotten Tomatoes with a 94%. The series featured an original story that was heavily influenced by the games but not a direct copy. Rather, the universe established paid great homage to the source material with a story synopsis that reads:
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.
The first season introduced us to three main characters whose journeys we follow: Lucy, an optimistic Vault-dweller forced to the surface to rescue her father; Maximus, a young soldier who rises to the rank of squire in the militaristic faction called the Brotherhood of Steel; and the Ghoul, a morally ambiguous bounty hunter who holds within him a 200-yea history of the post-nuclear war. Their paths collide when chasing an artifact that could have major ramifications in this post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Amazon has not yet announced when Fallout will return for its second season, but series star Walton Goggins, who plays the Ghoul, said back in February that they were still in the middle of filming. Series executive producer Jonathan Nolan previously acknowledged that he's "hopeful that we're not gonna have to wait that long."