Amazon’s ‘Fallout’ Series Nabs $25M in Tax Credits to Relocate to California

Amazon’s Fallout series has picked up a $25 million tax credit offer from the California Film Commission to practically assure a second season and relocate production from New York State to Los Angeles.

Set in the future post-apocalyptic Los Angeles and world of Fallout, the series from Amazon MGM Studios is projected by the California Film Commission to contribute $153 million in qualifying expenditures to that state and bring on around 170 people in cast and crew.

On Monday, the California Film Commission unveiled in 12 projects projected to spend an estimated $1.1 billion in California during their upcoming season. The roster of new TV series includes Amazon MGM Studios’ Untitled Task Force Series to follow a secret task force of undercover agents, while 20th Television nabbed tax credits for two projects by executive producer Ryan Murphy – Dr. Odyssey, starring Joshua Jackson, and Grotesquerie, starring Niecy Nash. 

The first season of Fallout is headed to Prime Video for a global rollout from April 11. The rookie season, shot in New York State and New Jersey, is set 200 years after a 1950s nuclear apocalypse wiped out modern civilization. Ella Purnell stars as Lucy, an idealistic young woman born underground in a luxury fallout shelter, who knows nothing of the wasteland above. But when people hurt her loved ones, Lucy is forced to leave her vault and fight her way through the real world above.

The second season of Fallout, when in production, will also come from Kilter Films and executive producers Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, the creators of Westworld. The first series cast includes Purnell, Walton Goggins, Aaron Moten, Moisés Arias, Kyle MacLachlan, Sarita Choudhury and Michael Emerson.