Fallout Season 2 casts Macaulay Culkin in a recurring role

Prime Video's Fallout hasn't forgotten Macaulay Culkin. The Home Alone star has booked a recurring role in the second season of the Emmy-nominated drama. diversity has confirmed. There are no details yet about Culkin's character in the series, but Deadline, which broke the news, wrote that he will be a “crazy genius type.”

The series is based on the video game franchise of the same name and is set two hundred years after the apocalypse. According to the official description, it follows “the gentle inhabitants of luxurious nuclear shelters who are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape left behind by their ancestors – and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, joyfully strange and extremely violent universe that is waiting for you.”

Culkin's most recent credits include a voice role in “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 Emmy awards, including outstanding drama series, outstanding screenplay and outstanding lead actor for star Goggins. It won an award for outstanding music supervision.

Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner are the creators, executive producers and showrunners. Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy are executive producing through Kilter Films, which has an overall deal with Amazon. Athena Wickham of Kilter Films is also an executive producer alongside Todd Howard for Bethesda Game Studios and James Altman for Bethesda Softworks. Amazon MGM Studios and Kilter Films are producing in collaboration 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 entirely on April 10. The Kilter Films series was quickly picked up for a second season.