As work continues on the second season of Prime Video's Fallout series, a major casting announcement has been made. Macaulay Culkin has been cast for a recurring role in Season 2 of the hit series.
One of the most successful child actors of the 1990s and perhaps best known for his role as Kevin McCallister in the Home Alone movies, Macaulay Culkin has only appeared in a few projects here and there in recent years. But now Deadline is reporting that the former child star will play "a crazy genius-type character" in the series.
An adaptation of the beloved video game series of the same name by Bethesda, Fallout is set in a post-nuclear, apocalyptic world. While some were lucky enough to be born in luxury fallout shelters, others were born into an irradiated hellscape.
"Fallout is the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have," the series description reads. "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."
This particular story follows a trio of characters whose paths collide while chasing an artifact that has the potential to radically change the dynamic of the world: Lucy (Ella Purnell), an optimistic Vault-dweller who is forced to the surface to rescue her father; Maximus (Aaron Moten), a young soldier who rises to the rank of squire in the militaristic faction Brotherhood of Steel; and the Ghould (Walton Goggins), a morally ambiguous bounty hunter who has managed to survive the post-nuclear world for 200 years.
Fallout debuted on Prime Video in April of this year and was an immediate hit with global audiences. The series ranked among the service's top three most-watched titles ever and the most-watched season globally since Ring of Power. The show's success led to a quick renewal from the streaming giant.
Despite the quick renewal, we still don't have a premiere date for Season 2. Series executive producer Jonathan Nolan, who also directed the first three episodes of Season 1, has promised that fans won't have to wait too long while series co-showrunners Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner have stated "we are going as fast as we possibly can."
"Geneva and Graham and Jonah and Kilter have such a vision for this. They are hard at work, we already have scripts in hand for Season 2," Amazon MGM Studios television head Vernon Sanders said in an update over the summer. "So we’re really far ahead because we knew we had something special all along. It’s premature for me to give you a release date. But I’ll tell you, we are working hard to be back as fast as possible. So I think people will be pleased with how quickly we’re able to get the show back. We just want to make sure we deliver everything that is on the page."
Some of Culkin's recent credits include a voice on The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy, as well as multiple episodes of The Righteous Gemstones. He was also part of the cast of American Horror Story: Double Feature.