It seems Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul won’t be the only new visitor to the Wasteland. Prime Video announced that the trio of Manny Jacinto (The Acolyte), Emily Mortimer (Paddington in Peru), and Thomasin McKenzie (Jojo Rabbit) has been added to the cast of Fallout Season 3 in recurring roles.
No character details were shared, including Paul’s, but they will join franchise mainstays Ella Purnell, Walton Goggins, Kyle MacLachlan, Justin Theroux, Aaron Moten, and more. As the post-apocalyptic series includes past and present events, there’s a possibility that their on-screen personas will appear in either or both timelines and may be original characters in the cinematic universe rather than from the video games.
The news comes ahead of the show’s return to production in Los Angeles this month, with Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy back as executive producers. A release date for the third season has yet to be set, and story specifics remain under lock and key for now. High hopes are riding on it, however — the first two instalments ranked among the most-watched TV seasons on Prime Video, surpassing 100 million viewers worldwide collectively through the first 13 weeks of Season 2.
Taking place 200 years after a nuclear holocaust, Fallout follows sheltered vault dwellers who are forced to return to the violent and bizarre wasteland their ancestors left behind. Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner serve as executive producers, creators, and showrunners, while Amazon MGM Studios and Kilter Films produce in association with Bethesda Game Studios and Bethesda Softworks through their respective executive producers, Todd Howard and James Altman.
The original game franchise can be traced back to 1997 and has received mostly positive reception. Fallout 76, released in 2018, is its most recent entry, and a fifth is currently in development at the studio alongside another one of its tentpole titles, Elder Scrolls VI. No release window was announced, however.
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