Amazon’s ‘Fallout‘ TV series launches this week on Prime Video, but already looks to be on track for a 2nd Season, as its revealed California has offered a whopping $25M tax credit for it to relocate the drama.
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.
Whilst the show is set a post-apocalyptic California, it was actually filmed around Nevada, New Jersey, New York and Utah, along with some additional filming along Namibia’s Skeleton Coast. California offering tax credits to lure production back to the state is nothing new, with 32 shows so far having relocated since the tax program was revamped in 2014. However, at $25M, it is one of the largest allocations ever for the relocation of a series.
Other shows which have landed California tax credits this year include prequel series ‘NCIS: Origins‘, medical drama ‘The Pitt‘ starring Noah Wyle, new Ryan Murphy drama ‘Dr. Odyssey‘ starring Joshua Jackson, and new horror series ‘Grotesquerie‘, also from Ryan Murphy, starring Niecy Nash.
We should stress, Amazon themselves has not confirmed a 2nd Season yet, and a tax credit, even one this large, is no guarantee if the show falls flat on its face and does not get the ratings Amazon needs. What it does do is ease the financial pressure which factors into the renewal, should the streamer decide to bring it back.
The series is led by Ella Purnell (Yellowjackets) as 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 (Emancipation) plays 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. And Walton Goggins (The Hateful Eight) is the Ghoul, a morally ambiguous bounty hunter who holds within him a 200-year history of the post-nuclear world.
The cast also includes Moisés Arias (The King of Staten Island), Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks), Sarita Choudhury (Homeland), Michael Emerson (Person of Interest), Leslie Uggams (Deadpool), Frances Turner (The Boys), Dave Register (Heightened), Zach Cherry (Severance), Johnny Pemberton (Ant-Man), Rodrigo Luzzi (Dead Ringers), Annabel O’Hagan (Law & Order: SVU), and Xelia Mendes-Jones (The Wheel of Time).
The series comes from Kilter Films and executive producers Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. Nolan directed the first three episodes. Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner serve as executive producers, writers and co-showrunners. Athena Wickham of Kilter Films also executive produces, along with Todd Howard for Bethesda Game Studios and James Altman for Bethesda Softworks. Amazon MGM Studios and Kilter Films produce in association with Bethesda Game Studios and Bethesda Softworks.
‘Fallout‘ Season 1 will be available to stream exclusively on Prime Video on Thursday, 11th April 2024, with all eight episodes dropping at once, in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.
