The first season of Fallout on Amazon was a big success, a TV adaptation of Bethesda's long-running post-apocalyptic video game series that alternates between bleak brutality and off-the-wall silliness. The cast and crew are getting going on season 2, and Deadline reports that Macaulay Culkin will be joining the cast.
Culkin is best known for his work as a child star in the 1990s, having starred in two Home Alone movies. He's appeared only sporadically since then, popping up on shows like American Horror Story and The Righteous Gemstones. Per Deadline, he'll play “a crazy genius-type character,” which sounds about right.
On The Righteous Gemstones, Culkin played the estranged son of Walton Goggins' character. On Fallout, Goggins plays the Ghoul, a mutated bounty hunter who makes stalks the waste looking for revenge against the people who made the world like this in the first place. Ella Purnell and Aaron Moten round out the main cast of characters as naive vault dweller Lucy and ambitious Brotherhood of Steel member Maximus. The list of guest stars in the first season was great, and included the likes of Matt Berry and Michael Rappaport. I can easily see Culkin coming on as a scene-stealing side charater. Or if he's interested in committing to a bigger part, all the better.
The first season of Fallout ended with the Ghoul and Lucy approaching what's become of Las Vegas, the setting for one of the most enduring popular Fallout games: Fallout: New Vegas. There are a lot of "crazy genius-type characters" in that one.
We don't know when the second season of Fallout will premiere on Amazon Prime Video, although we shouldn't expect it anytime before 2026. I wish studios would find a way to get this stuff out earlier, but when you're making a show this expensive and complex, things take time.
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h/t The A.V. Club