‘Fallout’ season 2 casts Macaulay Culkin in a recurring role

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Prime Video’s “Fallout” did not forget Macaulay Culkin. The “Home Alone” star has booked a recurring role in Season 2 of the Emmy-nominated drama, Black have confirmed. There are no details yet on Culkin’s character in the series, but Deadline, which broke the news, wrote that it will be a “crazy genius type.”

The series is based on the video game series of the same name and takes place two hundred years after the apocalypse. The official description says it follows “the gentle inhabitants of luxurious fallout housing who are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape left by their ancestors – and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, hilariously weird and highly violent universe, waiting for them.”

Culkin’s recent credits include providing a voice for “The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy,” as well as several episodes of “The Righteous Gemstones” and as part of the cast of “American Horror Story: Double Feature.”

Ella Purnell stars in “Fallout” alongside Aaron Moten, Kyle MacLachlan, Walton Goggins, Moisés Arias, Sarita Choudhury, Michael Emerson, Leslie Uggams, Frances Turner, Dave Register, Zach Cherry, Johnny Pemberton, Rodrigo Luzzi, Annabel O’Hagan , and Xelia Mendes-Jones.

Earlier this year, “Fallout” was nominated for 17 Emmys, including Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Writing and Outstanding Lead Actor for star Goggins. It won one, for outstanding music monitoring.

Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner are the creators, executive producers and showrunners. Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy are producing via Kilter Films, which is under a joint deal with Amazon. Athena Wickham of Kilter Films is also producing alongside Todd Howard for Bethesda Game Studios and James Altman for Bethesda Softworks. Amazon MGM Studios and Kilter Films are producing in association with Bethesda Game Studios and Bethesda Softworks.

According to Amazon, the series attracted 65 million viewers in its first 16 days of availability, with the first season dropping in its entirety on April 10. The show from Kilter Films was quickly picked up for a season 2.