Now that Fallout Season 1 has ended and Prime Video has greenlit a second season of the hit series, speculation of what's to come has been picking up.
The Season 1 finale included quite a few hints at where the series could go next, but none perhaps more impactful than seeing Hank (Kyle MacLachlan) walking towards the outskirts of a cityscape that looks a lot like New Vegas from the beloved Fallout: New Vegas video game.
Speaking to GQ, co-showrunners Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet addressed the speculation that Season 2 of Fallout will at least partially take place in New Vegas.
While they couldn't directly confirm that New Vegas will be a primary location in the new season, Wagner acknowledged, "It sure would be strange if we went off to New York City after that."
The two were asked if it was always their plan to go to New Vegas, to which Wanger answered:
The idea that more stuff has happened, and that we're not leaving worlds as we left them, was sort of the philosophy of approaching the first season being set in Los Angeles. We do hope to continue that, and create story on top of story… That's been the entire exercise from the jump, right? 25 years of games, how do you do something on top of it, like a teetering Jenga tower. But that was always the goal. So we are hoping to do that again in another area that is strongly implied by the finale of the first season. [Laughs.] I might as well have said it at that point.
But while fans may finally get to see the iconic location brought to life in the television series, it probably won't be exactly as we remember it from the video game. After all, it's been 15 years since we last saw it in Fallout: New Vegas, and as Wagner admits, a lot can change in the wastelands over such a period. As to temper fan expectations, Wagner warned:
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?
New Vegas won't be the only iconic new addition to Season 2 of the show. As was also alluded to in the finale, the next season of Fallout will also feature the appearance of a Deathclaw, one of the most terrifying and deadly creatures you can come across in the games.
All eight episodes of Fallout are currently streaming on Prime Video. There's currently no release timeframe for when we can expect Season 2, although series executive producer Jonathan Nolan previously admitted that he's "hopeful that we're not gonna have to wait quite that long, should we be so lucky."