Coming off Fallout’s wildly successful premiere season, the Prime Video series’ creators are already hard at work getting season 2 out at a furious pace to meet rabid fan demand.
In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, showrunners Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner made it clear their top priority is turnaround as quickly as feasible for the next batch of post-apocalyptic episodes.
“We are going as fast as we possibly can, and we’ve got a lot of heavy lifting from Season 1 already done,” Wagner stated, citing existing production elements like sets, visual effects assets, and more that can be leveraged for an expedited start.
“We are hitting the ground running this season. We’re going to be pedal to the metal to get season two out as fast as humanly possible,” he emphasized, wisely avoiding committing to a specific release window that could be misconstrued.
Robertson-Dworet echoed her co-showrunner’s eagerness, revealing there were numerous story ideas and world-expanding concepts they had to table for the first season due to constraints.
“There are so many things we wanted to do in Season 1 where we were like, ‘That would be amazing, let’s do that in Season 2,'” she recalled. “So it feels like we’re so much farther along and it’s honestly really exciting.”
The creative duo clearly recognizes the immense opportunity before them after Fallout’s successful adaptation of the iconic post-nuclear RPG franchise. In addition to overwhelming critical praise, the series was credited with spiking game sales and renewing mainstream interest in the Wasteland universe.
With a wealth of existing lore and objectives already mapped out from the previous season’s ambitious world-building, the showrunners find themselves in an advantageous position to kick production on season 2 into an accelerated gear.
Exactly when those new episodes will deploy remains uncertain for now. But eager Fallout fans can rest assured Robertson-Dworet, Wagner, and their team are going “pedal to the metal” with an already considerable head start.
While Microsoft-owned Bethesda inevitably has its own new Fallout game installment in active development, the Prime Video adaptation will have to sustain audience’s apocalyptic cravings until further notice. Based on the showrunners’ emphatic comments, that long-awaited second course is being whipped up as rapidly as humanly possible.