The Fallout television series, backed by Amazon’s Prime Video, is one of the most beloved live-action adaptations ever made. It’s an award-winning show that boasts an original story fused with elements pulled straight from the post-apocalyptic game franchise, and it just wrapped its second season and is moving onto the third with immense gusto.
In a recent interview, one of the series’s most iconic stars addressed a fan theory. He recognizes that people are curious whether the Fallout TV show ‘is’ or perhaps is setting up for Fallout 5.
Is The Fallout TV Show Leading to Fallout 5?
We could have ten years of the Fallout TV show, including the two that we’ve already had. There’s an abundance of world-building for the showrunners to pull from, and production on the third season is already underway.
In December, Bethesda Game Studios’ Todd Howard made a bold statement about both the future of the television show and Fallout 5, showing how they’ll intertwine:
Fallout 5 will be existing in a world where the stories and events of the show happened or are happening.
In a recent supersized interview breakdown with Game Informer, Walton Goggins, who plays Cooper ‘The Ghoul’ Howard in the television show, echoed that sentiment, saying:
In some ways, people have said, “Is it Fallout 5?” That’s way above my paygrade.
It’s not clear what he’s referring to, but it’s most likely a nod to those who believe that the television show’s original content, which is set further in the future than anything ever created in the Fallout universe, is building up to Fallout 5’s story.
That original production was also addressed by Goggins:
They did their homework, and it was built into the DNA of the story that they created, and this isn’t like Fallout 1, Fallout 2, or Fallout 3… it’s its own thing. It’s original content within the Fallout world.
Whatever happens, it could be at least another four or five years before we see anything to do with Fallout 5. Bethesda still needs to wrap development on Starfield’s second expansion (and whatever comes next), and deliver The Elder Scrolls 6. There’s a lengthy wait in store, but fans might be able to tide themselves over with upcoming releases like Fallout 3 Remastered.
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Grant has been gaming for 30+ years and in the industry for 10+. You'll probably find him playing a post-apocalyptic game or an extraction shooter somewhere.
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