It was recently announced that Amazon Prime has finished filming the second season of its Fallout TV adaptation, but even that may only really be the start of its plans for the show. One actor has suggested there's up to six seasons' worth of content coming.
Speaking at a Comic-Con panel in Liverpool, England recently, Maximus actor Aaron Moten said that he was given the "endpoint" of the TV series when he signed on to do the first season, and that conclusion is a "season five, season six type of endpoint", reports Comic Basics.
His full comment was: "When I signed on to do the series, we would have a starting point, and they gave me the end point. That endpoint hasn’t changed, but it is season five, season six, type of endpoint. We've always known that we’re going to take our time with the development of the characters."
Over the weekend, Amazon Prime confirmed it had finished shooting season two of the TV show in a Twitter video in which Walter Goggins tears off the skin of The Ghoul. The end of the first set of episodes teased a Fallout: New Vegas-esque setting for the follow-up batch. As a standalone adaptation, it doesn't need to replicate the exact events of the game, so the producers can plan those potentially six seasons freely.
You'd like to think Bethesda would like to tie in a new Fallout game, or at least a remaster of an older one, with the launch of one of the TV seasons at some point, right?
The first season of Fallout was an overwhelming success, and that looks set to continue as Amazon Prime finishes off the second season and once again looks to the future. In our Fallout season one review, we called it a "triumph" and concluded: "A totally brilliant adaptation of Bethesda's RPG series, Fallout is a canon story that more than holds its own against the plots of its video game counterparts. Series fanatics won't want to miss this."