‘Fallout’ Season 3’s Production Costs Officially Jump 21% From Season 2
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Television productions have gotten bigger, bolder, and much more expensive in the streaming age. Yet, while standouts like Netflix’sStranger Things and Paramount+’s Halo were particularly pricey undertakings, Prime Video has been especially willing to throw around its cash. The Amazon-owned streamer has notoriously poured over $1 billion and counting into its fantasy epic, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, starting with over $700 million just to purchase the rights to J.R.R. Tolkien‘s books and produce the first season alone. Citadel, its Anthony and Joe Russo-produced interconnected spy thriller series, meanwhile, was made for $300 million to capture its cinematic vision.
Prime Video has also been shelling out a lot of caps to make Fallout a reality. The series adaptation of the wildly popular post-apocalyptic RPG franchise has been one of the most successful video game shows ever made through two seasons so far, with Season 1 quickly eclipsing 100 million views and Season 2 similarly crossing that milestone, making it the second most popular returning season of all time on the platform. Recreating the wasteland and its inhabitants hasn’t come cheap at a production budget of over $150 million for the first run alone, but it’s been worth it to create a show that has been hailed for its remarkable accuracy to its world. The production design and costumes even earned Season 2 a pair of Emmys. It’s not much of a shock, then, that Season 3 is bringing even more firepower.
According to California’s updated Film and Television Tax Credit Program approved projects list, the series is working with nearly $166.3 million this time around, with a tax credit allocation of $42 million. In all, it comes out to about a 21% projected increase in costs from Season 2, cementing it as easily Amazon’s most expensive project in the state. Fallout Season 3 may need that extra budget with all the big developments the prior finale set up, from the reveal of Liberty Prime Alpha under the Brotherhood of Steel’s control to the Enclave preparing “Phase 2” of their operations, and the Ghoul (Walton Goggins) setting out for Colorado to find his family. Series creators Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner may have a particularly explosive story up their sleeves.
Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Survival Quiz Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive? The Matrix · Mad Max · Blade Runner · Dune · Star Wars
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💊The Matrix
🔥Mad Max
🌧️Blade Runner
🏜️Dune
🚀Star Wars
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You sense something is deeply wrong with the world around you. What do you do? The first instinct is often the truest one.
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In a world of scarcity, what resource do you guard most fiercely? What we protect reveals what we believe survival actually requires.
03
What kind of threat keeps you up at night? Fear is useful data — if you’re honest about what you’re actually afraid of.
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How do you deal with authority you don’t trust? Every dystopia has a power structure. Your approach to it determines everything.
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Which environment could you actually endure long-term? Survival isn’t just tactical — it’s physical, psychological, and very much about where you are.
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Who do you want in your corner when things fall apart? The company you keep is the clearest signal of who you actually are.
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Where do you draw the line — if you draw one at all? Every survivor eventually faces a moment that tests what they’re actually made of.
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What would actually make survival worth it? Staying alive is one thing. Having a reason to is another.
Your Fate Has Been Calculated You’d Survive In…
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
The Resistance, Zion
The Matrix
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
You’re drawn to understanding how the system works before figuring out how to break it.
You’d find the Resistance, or it would find you — your instinct for spotting constructed realities is the machines’ worst nightmare.
You function best when you have access to information and the freedom to act on it.
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The Wasteland
Mad Max
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
You don’t need comfort, community, or a cause larger than the next horizon.
You need a vehicle, a clear threat, and enough fuel to outrun it — and you’re good at all three.
You are unsentimental enough to survive that world, and decent enough — just barely — to be something more than another raider.
In the wasteland, that distinction is everything.
Los Angeles, 2049
Blade Runner
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
You read people accurately, keep your circle small, and ask the questions others prefer not to answer.
In a city where humanity is a legal designation rather than a feeling, you hold onto something that keeps you functional.
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Arrakis
Dune
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
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A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
You find meaning in being part of something larger than yourself — a cause, a crew, a rebellion.
You’d gravitate toward the Rebellion, or the fringes, or whatever pocket of the galaxy still believes the Empire’s grip can be broken.
You fight — not because you have to, but because standing aside isn’t something you’re capable of.
In Star Wars, that willingness is what makes all the difference.
What Happened at the End of ‘Fallout’ Season 2?
Fallout‘s trip to New Vegas ended on a major cliffhanger as all three of its main wasteland dwellers, Lucy (Ella Purnell), Maximus (Aaron Moten), and the Ghoul came together for a revelatory finale. For the first time, the Ghoul has confirmation that his family is alive, hence the dangerous trip he begins to Colorado despite Mr. House’s (Justin Theroux) protests. Lucy and Max, meanwhile, have to deal with a coming war in the wasteland thanks to what her father, Hank (Kyle MacLachlan), has set into motion, but their first problem is dealing with the coming Legion, who are marching on New Vegas with their new Caesar (Macaulay Culkin) and are bound for another clash with the New California Republic. Amidst the main ongoing storylines, the series has already brought aboard two big new names for Season 3 in Aaron Paul and Manny Jacinto.
Fallout Season 3 will premiere sometime in 2027. Stay tuned here at Collider for further updates as the series nears a return.
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