Fallout TV show production designer explains why they made a big last-minute change to the episode 1 ending, and shares shooting plans for season 2
Excluജsive: Howard Cummings talks creating California and heading off to New Vegas

Warning: 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Fallout season one spoilers ahead!
Prime Video's live-action TV adaptation of Fallout is both stunning and game-accurate – and production designer Howard Cummings says it was a team effort to make those seemingly impossible ideas come to life. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The series has been ꦉrenewed for a second season, which will likely adapt 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:New Vegas as its central location.
"For various reasons we actually shot Fallout season one in New York City <laugh> except for parts in Africa, in Namibia, for the Wasteland, for when Lucy comes out of the Vault door, that crazy locat💧ion," Cummings tells GamesRadar+. "And Utah for the Brotherhood of Steel stuff – that's near the Bonneville Salt Flats in a semi-abandoned air base there. I don'💎t know exactly where we're shooting [season 2] but it's gonna be on the West Coast – which should make it somewhat easier because don't have to go to Africa necessarily."
The Wasteland was created not by pouring sand in front of a green screen, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:but by consไtructing a set in the Namib desert – namely the Skeleton Coast, which is home to the ghost town of Kolmanskop. The house🉐 that Lucy enters in episode 2 is real, it's the arid conditions of the desert that keeဣp the walls and decorations preserved. At the end of episode 1, Lucy goes to the surface for the very first time and looks out over the ruins of the Santa Monica Pier. Cummings says this seemed impossible at first, but executive producer Jonathan Nolan was able to help him see the vision.
"That was a brilliant idea on Jonathan Nolan’s part to go [to Africa]. We were standing there – originally the script wasn't [set] by the♍ water and I said, ‘Oh wow, this ocean is so violent, too bad we can't see the water.’ And he goes, ‘What if we can?'" Cummings explains. "And he ran off and rocked it and ran to the show, and talked to the writer. We're scouting and the executive producer walks up and she goes, ‘What's that all about?’ And I said, ‘We're looking at the Santa Monica Pier. This looks like the cur🏅ve of the landscape and everything. It’s the Santa Monica Pier!’ It was great. What fun to put the Vault 33 coming out of the Santa Monica Pier."
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