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It’s safe to say Fallout is a hit TV series on Prime Video. With favorable reviews and an audience streaming the series in droves, it makes sense that Prime Video has already renewed the video game adaptation show for a second season. Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy, and stars Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten, Walton Goggins, and Kyle MacLachlan are executives producing the Kilter Films produced series.

Prime Video said in the first four days of release that Fallout ranks among the service’s top three most-watched titles ever and the most-watched season globally since The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power. The series’ cast is led by Moisés Arias, Sarita Choudhury, Michael Emerson, Leslie Uggams, Frances Turner, Dave Register, Zach Cherry, Johnny Pemberton, Rodrigo Luzzi, Annabel O’Hagan, and Xelia Mendes-Jones.

The official Prime Video description goes like this: 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.

“Jonah, Lisa, Geneva, and Graham have captivated the world with this ground-breaking, wild ride of a show. The bar was high for lovers of this iconic video game and so far we seem to have exceeded their expectations, while bringing in millions of new fans to the franchise. The cast led by Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten, Walton Goggins, and Kyle MacLachlan have knocked it out of the park!,” said Jennifer Salke, head of Amazon MGM Studios. “We’d like to thank Jonah and Lisa and our friends at Bethesda for bringing the show to us as well as Geneva and Graham for coming aboard as showrunners. We are thrilled to announce season two after only one week out and take viewers even farther into the surreal world of Fallout.”

“Praise be to our insanely brilliant showrunners, Geneva and Graham, to our kick-ass cast, to Todd and James and all the legends at Bethesda, and to Jen, Vernon and the amazing team at Amazon for their incredible support of this show. We can’t wait to blow up the world all over again,” in a statement from Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, Kilter Films.

“Holy s**t. Thank you to Jonah, Kilter, Bethesda and Amazon for having the courage to make a show that gravely tackles all of society’s most serious problems these days — cannibalism, incest, jello cake. More to come!,” from Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner, who are executive producers, creators, and co-showrunners.

“It’s been one of the most spectacular projects we’ve ever been a part of. Jonah and team did such an incredible job, and we’re overjoyed not just by the reaction to the show, but that we get to work with these amazing people even more,” in a quote from Todd Howard, executive producer, Bethesda Game Studios.

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Let’s just all agree that Fallout is one of the biggest video games ever. Now that we have that out the way, it’s time to unveil the trailer for “Fallout,” the new series from Prime Video and Kilter Films. Upon the first screen, it looks awesome. It’s like the perfect rival to The Last of Us, awesome. And ICYMI, The Last of Us is also based on a supremely big video game of the same name. Anyways, back to the awesomeness of the Fallout trailer and new series. Here’s some excerpts from the synopsis:

“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,” the synopsis says. “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.”

Star of the critically acclaimed series Yellowjackets, Ella Purnell leads as Lucy, who Shadow and Act report is “an optimistic Vault-dweller with an all-American can-do spirit whose peaceful and idealistic nature is tested when she is forced to the surface to rescue her father.” In addition to Purnell, Fallout stars Aaron Moten and Walton Goggins. And if you’re familiar with Goggins, from an array of character work on The Righteous Gemstones, Justified, and Tarantino films like The Hateful Eight, then you know you’re in for a ride. I mean just look at the makeup he’s wearing!

Shadow and Act reports Moten will play Maximus, a “young soldier who rises to the rank of squire in the militaristic faction called Brotherhood of Steel, while Goggins stars as the Ghoul, a morally ambiguous bounty hunter who holds within him a 200-year history of the post-nuclear world.” The reported ensemble cast includes Moisés Arias, Kyle MacLachlan, Sarita Choudhury, Michael Emerson, Leslie Uggams, Frances Turner, Dave Register, Zach Cherry, Johnny Pemberton, Rodrigo Luzzi, Annabel O’Hagan and Xelia Mendes-Jones.

Amazon MGM Studios and Kilter Films produce fallout in association with Bethesda Game Studios and Bethesda Softworks. Jonathan Nolan (Westworld), who is none other than Chris Nolan’s talented brother, is directing the first three episodes.

Fallout releases all eight episodes on April 11.

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