Amazon’s TV series based on the post-apocalyptic franchise Fallout has literally hit like an atom bomb in a game setting – and that’s why there could be several more seasons. It will probably continue even beyond the already confirmed Season 2.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter Fallout showrunner Graham Wagner has now spoken about the success of the first season and the plans for the future. After Season 1 aired on Amazon Prime Video on April 9, the series adaptation of Bethesda’s post-apocalyptic game material became a huge success. This is also why a second season has already been given the green light, but if Wagner has his way, it’s far from over.
Asked how many seasons the Fallout series would ideally have, he said: “We’ve talked about a billion seasons in a fun way to avoid that question, because we just can’t control that. Our hope is to end each season with a semi-satisfying and semi-open ending. Look, we’ve talked about three seasons and we’ve talked about five seasons. Given the success of the show, five suddenly feels a little more appealing right now. But the industry is a fickle thing and so we have to go into each season with the attitude of ‘This is our last.'”
Ideally, Fallout on Amazon Prime Video would span five seasons – at least if the online giant doesn’t pull the plug on the showrunners beforehand. That’s unlikely to be the case if the Fallout series continues to be as successful as Season 1.
At least for the confirmed second season, the plans are already well advanced, as co-showrunner Robertson-Dworet emphasizes in the interview: “There are so many things we wanted to do in Season 1 that we thought ‘That would be great, let’s do that in Season 2.’ For that reason, it seems that we are already much further along [als zum gleichen Zeitpunkt von Staffel 1] and it’s really really exciting and we’re really grateful to have the opportunity to bring to the screen all the things that didn’t quite fit in Season 1.”
The second season of the Fallout series does not yet have a release date; purely speculatively, it will probably not be until next year at the earliest.
Before the series starts on April 11, Amazon Prime has released another scene from the Fallout series. In it, Lucy (Ella Purnell) clashes with The Ghoul (Walton Goggins) and is a bit overwhelmed when she tries to resolve a conflict in the wasteland using Vault Dweller tactics. When her efforts to de-escalate the situation fail and tensions arise, Lucy receives additional support from a member of the Brotherhood of Steel.
