It’s official: a sci-fi motion comedy Fall will return with a second season.
Prime Video has renewed the series based on the favored Bethesda Softworks game series, adapted by showrunners Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner, and produced by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. The show provided a fine addition for the streamer and premiered to Prime Video’s best reviews ever, averaging a 94% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The streamer also claims that the series is among the many three best titles in history (though, as usual, it didn’t back it up with any hard data).
“Jonah, Lisa, Geneva and Graham charmed the world with this groundbreaking, crazy show. The bar has been set high for fans of this iconic video game, and thus far we appear to have exceeded their expectations while attracting thousands and thousands of latest fans to the series,” Amazon MGM Studios director Jennifer Salke said in a statement. “The cast led by Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten, Walton Goggins and Kyle MacLachlan blew him away. We’d like to thank Jonah and Lisa and our friends at Bethesda for sharing the show with us, and Geneva and Graham for coming on board as showrunners. We’re excited to announce season two after just one week and take viewers even further into a surreal world Fall”
Filming for the second season is anticipated to maneuver to California to benefit from the $25 million tax credit (the primary season was filmed primarily in New York and Utah). According to a California Film Commission filing, the series’ budget is $152 million. If the primary season finale preview is any indication, the subsequent season could head to the world of New Vegas, a well-liked setting in the sport series.
“Praise be to our incredibly sensible showrunners, Geneva and Graham, to our amazing solid, Todd and James, and all of the legends at Bethesda, and to Jen, Vernon, and the incredible team at Amazon for their incredible support of this show. We cannot wait to explode the world again,” said Nolan and Joy.
Fall The motion takes place 200 years after a nuclear war, and the primary season tells the story of three survivors: a naive “crypt-dweller” (Ella Purnell), a warrior member of the Brotherhood of Steel (Aaron Clifton Moten) and an undead Ghoul (Walton Goggins).
The producers are Amazon MGM Studios and Kilter Films Fall in cooperation with Bethesda Game Studios and Bethesda Softworks. Nolan and Joy are executive produced by Robertson-Dworet, Wagner, Athena Wickham of Kilter Films, Todd Howard of Bethesda Game Studios and James Altman of Bethesda Softworks.
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