Macaulay Culkin Scores a Role in ‘Fallout’ Season 2

The actor will play a reported “crazy” genius in the video game adaptation that features Ella Purnell and Walton Goggins among its leads.

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Macaulay Culkin is joining ‘Fallout’ Season 2.
Prime Video’s adaptation of the video game series saw success when it launched this year.
The post-apocalyptic story will continue.

Prime Video found itself with a winner on its hands –– at least critically, but according to parent company Amazon, also in terms of viewership –– this past April, via ‘Fallout,’ the quirky, post-apocalyptic thriller series drawn from Bethesda Game Studios’ wildly popular set of video games.

It debuted as one of Prime Video’s Top 3 most watched titles and earned 16 Emmy nominations for its first season, including Outstanding Drama Series.

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Naturally, a second season was quickly ordered and is about to kick off shooting this month. With Jonathan Nolan as executive producer and Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner as showrunners, ‘Fallout’ stars the likes of Ella Purnell, Walton Goggins, Aaron Moten, Moisés Arias, Sarita Choudhury and Kyle MacLachlan.

According to Deadline, Season 2 will see ‘Home Alone’s Macaulay Culkin joining them, his role mostly a mystery but apparently someone who is a crazy genius. Which seems fitting for the mad world in which ‘Fallout’ takes place.

What’s the story of ‘Fallout’?

Ella Purnell (Lucy) in 'Fallout'. Credit: JoJo Whilden/Prime Video. Copyright: © Amazon Content Services LLC.

‘Fallout’ is the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have.

Two-hundred years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind—and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and highly violent universe waiting for them.

Season 2 promises to deliver more of the madness, mutants and mysteries audiences came to enjoy from the first.

Who’s who in ‘Fallout’?

Walton Goggins (The Ghoul) in 'Fallout'. Credit: Courtesy of Prime Video. Copyright: © Amazon Content Services LLC.

Purnell plays Lucy, an optimistic Vault Dweller with an all-American, can-do spirit. Her peaceful and idealistic nature is tested when people harm her loved ones.

Aaron Moten stars as Maximus, A young soldier who hides his tragic past as he serves in a militaristic faction called Brotherhood of Steel. He believes in the nobility of the Brotherhood's mission to bring law and order to the Wasteland — and will do anything to further their goals… until he learns some harsh truths.

Goggins steals scenes as The Ghoul. The Ghoul survives the Wasteland as a bounty hunter. He is pragmatic, ruthless, and hides a mysterious past.

MacLachlan is Hank, the Overseer of Vault 33 and Lucy’s father. He is eager to change the world for the better –– but has turned out to be not so positive…