Fallout’s showrunners tease they already have ideas on how potential seasons of the series would go.
Fallout just dropped on Prime Video to critically positive reviews. With so much more of the video game’s lore to cover, the TV adaptation’s showrunners are already teasing bigger plans for Season 2 and beyond.
The initial reviews are in for Prime Video’s Fallout, and so far it’s looking bright for the show. Critics are already raving over the adaptation, which based on the trailers appears to capture the spirit of the video games. With such a promising headstart, Fallout‘s showrunners hope to do more with the characters and expanding world. Some of the show’s producers reveal plans for Season 2 in an interview with The Direct; executive producer Jonathan Nolan said they’ve even discussed the project’s future even as they laid the groundwork with the pilot season.
“We talked about [it] a little bit,” he said. “I think you always have to have a game plan should you be so lucky as to get a second season. I think, for the most part, we put our energy into making sure you’ve got one terrific season to tell.” Showrunner Geneva Robertson-Dworet admitted they can only do justice to the video games if they’re given more episodes to work on. “We do not have [a Season 2] yet, but we’re hoping to get one because we certainly have so many things that we could not fit into eight hours in Season 1 that we really, really want to do,” she said. Prime Video’s Fallout does tread new ground by introducing characters and plots entirely separate from the video games, but Robertson-Dworet asserted they’ve kept everything faithful to the lore.
Adapting 25 Years Of Fallout Lore
She continued, “That was the hardest, I think, part of adapting all of this was the fact that there’s just nonstop treasure in 25 years of Fallout games, and you want to bring everything to the screen, but you can’t because you can’t do justice to all of it, right?” So far there have been six RPG games in the Fallout series since the 1997 original, on top of one simulation game and two other spinoffs. Bethesda Games has confirmed plans to develop Fallout 5, but that project remains stalled. Regardless, the previous installments offer an abundance of source material for a proper adaptation. Robertson-Dworet says they’re pacing Season 1 properly even if they’re unsure if the show would even be renewed.
“…You don’t want to do some shitty adaptation of a favorite element from the game, whether it be a creature or a faction, and just totally, you know, breeze by it by bringing it into Season 1 too briefly,” she explained. “So, as a result, there’s a lot of things we want to do in future seasons. And we’ll just have to pray that we get to Season 2 and beyond.” With Season 1 already packed with franchise nods, Fallout fans can only hope to see the video games fleshed out more in subsequent seasons.
Fallout is now streaming on Prime Video.
