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“Fallout” brings the postapocalyptic world of the award-winning video games to life, and Amazon renewed the show for a second season just nine days after it was released.

It takes place 200 years after a nuclear war decimated the US and revolves around Lucy MacLean (Ella Purnell), who was raised in an underground bunker that protected her ancestors from radiation.

When her father, Hank MacLean (Kyle MacLachlan), is kidnapped by invaders from the outside world, Lucy leaves the safety of the shelter to try to save him.

In the last five years, Amazon has found success by adapting well-known properties into TV shows, including “The Boys,” “Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” “Reacher,” “Good Omens,” and “Invincible.”

But “Fallout” marks the first time the company has adapted a video game into a live-action series, and judging by the hugely positive critical reaction, the gamble has paid off.

Here’s what to know about “Fallout” season two.

Aaron Moten said “Fallout” season 2 should be released in 2025.

Amazon is yet to confirm a release date for “Fallout” season two.

But Aaron Moten, who plays the Brotherhood of Steel knight, Maximus, suggested the show will return sooner than fans might expect.

“We don’t have a release date that I could give out, but I could tell you that because we worked so hard and so quickly, it should be out this year,” he told Comic Con Liverpool, which ran from May 3 to 4.

Representatives for Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

On Thursday, Amazon confirmed on social media that season two had wrapped production.

Last April, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that Amazon had moved production of season two from New York to Los Angeles to receive a $25 million tax credit.

The show briefly paused production in January when the Pacific Palisades wildfire damaged Los Angeles, but filming later resumed.

In February, Walton Goggins, who plays the Ghoul/Cooper Howard in the show, told Deadline: “We’re in the middle of filming it right now, we’ve been at it since November, and I can tell you that I thought season one was extraordinary. Personally, I was very pleased with it.

“This blows it out of the water, what these writers have done and the artisans that have come together to tell this story. It’s really going to be something, I can’t wait for people to see it. We’re working really hard to make that happen.”

‘Fallout’ season 2 will visit a classic location from a beloved game

The end of season one revealed that Hank is actually employed by Vault-Tec, the company that built all the Vaults. He’s still working to ensure that the company is successful in the post-apocalypse world. This is a bitter pill to swallow for Lucy now that she’s seen how the world was devastated by the war.

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Hank leaves Lucy and Maximus (Aaron Moten) by flying away in a damaged set of power armor. But in the closing moments of the season, audiences see him stomping through the desert toward an iconic location from the games: New Vegas.

The 2010 game, “Fallout: New Vegas,” takes place in and around the city, which has been rebuilt following the nuclear war. Photos and videos of the New Vegas set surfaced on X in early March. They showed key locations from the game, including The Tops Hotel and The Lucky 38 Resort.

When speaking to BI ahead of “Fallout” season one, showrunner Graham Wagner said there’s a lot the makers didn’t do in the series (like introducing a deathclaw) in the hopes that they got a second season.

“We took the philosophy of: if you do everything right out of the gates, you’re going to do it all but less well, and it’ll just be a confusing barrage of noise. So we bet on ourselves,” he said.

“We bet on Amazon, and the show, in the hopes of creating a show that irrefutably gets a second season. We’re in an uncertain time with television. We never know. It is a very expensive show. It’s a big ask,” Wagner added.

“So we’re hoping that if fans coalesce around this thing, it becomes undeniable. We have fingers crossed. We have so much more we hope to do,” he said.

Macaulay Culkin will reportedly join Aaron Moten, Walton Goggins, and Ella Purnell in ‘Fallout’ season 2.

In November, Deadline reported, citing unnamed sources, that Macaulay Culkin would be joining the cast as a “crazy genius-type character.”

“Fallout” fans will know that description could fit plenty of characters in the games.

Many online were quick to comment that it would be funny if he played a character living alone in one of the vaults, in a nod to “Home Alone.”

Others speculated that he will play Arcade Gannon, a scientist from the “New Vegas” game who experiments with medicine.

Amazon and Culkin’s representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment from BI.

In April 2024, Amazon announced the second season of the series with a poster of Maximus, The Ghoul, and Lucy, so it seems very likely that all three actors will return to reprise their roles when the show eventually returns.

Fans can also expect to see MacLachlan return as Hank, considering the tease that the former Overseer of Vault 33 is heading to New Vegas.

In fact, it’s probable that all the cast will return for season two because several plot threads have been left open for future stories.

How will Moldaver’s Cold Fusion device change the Wasteland? Will Norm (Moisés Arias) escape Vault 31? Will Thaddeus (Johnny Pemberton) turn into a ghoul?

Hopefully, the next batch of episodes will answer these questions and more.