LOS ANGELES — The upcoming second season of Prime Video’s hit video game adaptation Fallout will feature a very special 40-minute long brutal killing spree preceded by a quicksave, sources working on the show confirmed.
“Our main goal this season was to really get experimental with the format of our episodes, while also remaining true to that unique Fallout experience,” said Fallout showrunner Geneva Robertson-Dworet. “In our research we found that an overwhelming number of Fallout fans have experienced the seemingly ‘canon event’ of quicksaving, absolutely unleashing hell on whatever poor settlement or group of people happens to populate their immediate surroundings, and then loading back to that quicksave as if nothing ever happened at all. And we knew we just had to put that on the screen.”
Ella Purnell, who plays Vault 33 Dweller Lucy MacLean in the show, was happy to share her experience in devising and performing the ground-breaking scene.
“It was all adrenaline, really,” said Purnell. “[Wayne] Yip directed that episode, and he really gave me a lot of creative freedom on this very visceral, almost primal scene.They put me in the middle of this beautiful set of Camp McCarran with fifty or sixty stunt performers and I just went apeshit. I started unloading into these very talented people who I’d come to love working with. I was huckin’ firebombs and frag grenades like nobody’s business. I think I remember beating a script supervisor to a bloody pulp? Honestly, I kinda blacked out. But once the scene was over, we all just reset back to one and it was like nothing ever happened. It was extremely cathartic.”
We also spoke with Matthew Ryerson, who works as a PA on the show and was fortunate enough to witness the scene first-hand.
“Honestly, it was the most bizarre day of work I’ve ever experienced,” said Ryerson, 23. “As soon as Yip called ‘action’ the carnage began, and we were all helpless to do anything but stand back and watch. It was a truly harrowing display of violence, but also, you could tell there was a beautiful sort of release of tension. It’s something we’ve all thought about, just being able to go absolutely postal and then erase it all from having ever happened. All in all, I think it’ll make for some damn good TV.”
At press time, the Fallout writers are crafting a scene where a Deathclaw tears Walton Goggins limb from limb.
