Macaulay Culkin will appear in the next season of Fallout

Macaulay Culkin has taken a sparse approach to acting over the past decade or two; a few episodes of American Horror Story here, a brief but memorable appearance on The righteous gems there. Now Culkins is apparently entering the increasingly sensational world of television video game adaptations, with Deadline reporting tonight, that Alone at home star/pizza cover artist has signed a part in Prime Video’s Fallout show.

Fallout is gearing up for its second season after the first did a surprisingly good job of capturing at least parts of the tone of the game series it draws from — two parts existentially bleak to one part absurdly silly, pretty much. The series was already doing pretty well on the casting front with Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten and Culkin alienated Gemstone father Walton Goggins stars as a crew of survivors trying to find some meaning in the debris. Guest star stints on the series included memorable appearances from Michael Emerson, Matt Berry, Michael Rappaport, Sarita Choudhury and more, helping to fill out a Wasteland roster that polite people might call “colorful” and honest people would call “mostly terrifying psychotic”. .”

Details of Culkin’s role in the series are being kept under wraps, though he is apparently playing “a crazy genius character,” an archetype Fallout the universe is not exactly lacking. The show’s first season (which ran a plot line largely independent of any game in the franchise) ended with a suggestion that it would do some kind of light adaptation of Critical Treasure Fallout: New Vegas; It’s worth noting that this particular entry includes some of the craziest scientists in all of the Wasteland in one of its expansions, so here’s hoping we get to see Macaulay Culkin floating around like a floating brain in a jar.

Fallout was renewed for a second season on Prime not long after its first airing; no word yet on when the second season will arrive, Culkin in tow.