Fallout Season 3 adds Manny Jacinto, Thomasin McKenzie, and Emily Mortimer — Todd Howard teases new locations

Prime Video's Fallout is heading into its third season with a strong new cast and some tantalizing hints about where the story goes next. Manny Jacinto, best known for Star Wars: The Acolyte and The Good Place, joins alongside Thomasin McKenzie (Jojo Rabbit, Eileen) and Emily Mortimer (The Newsroom, Paddington in Peru). They'll appear alongside returning leads Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten, Walton Goggins, and Kyle MacLachlan, plus previously announced Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul. Filming kicks off this month in Los Angeles.

Bethesda's Todd Howard, speaking to Entertainment Weekly, confirmed pre-production is underway and described Aaron Paul as "a Fallout fan from way back." More intriguingly, Howard teased that Season 3 will visit locations that have never appeared in any Fallout game — not just Colorado, which the Season 2 finale pointed toward. "There's a lot of surprises coming," Howard said. "We're going to new places... some new things in the Fallout world that I think will surprise people, that they've never seen before in the games." Co-showrunner Geneva Robertson-Dworet also cautioned fans not to assume the season will make a straight line to Colorado: "This is the Wasteland where you always get sidetracked by bullshit every goddamn time."

The show has earned that kind of creative ambition. Fallout has now surpassed 100 million viewers across its first two seasons, making it one of Prime Video's best-performing originals ever — both seasons rank in the streamer's all-time top four most-watched. Season 2's focus on New Vegas was a hit with fans of the games, and the decision to keep moving to fresh regional settings is directly inspired by how the game series itself works, with each entry dropping players into a different post-apocalyptic corner of America.

Fan reaction to the new casting has been warm, with Jacinto drawing particular enthusiasm — his performance in The Acolyte was widely praised even as the show itself was cancelled. With filming starting now and Howard actively hyping surprises, expect more concrete details about Season 3's setting and story to surface over the coming months.