Fallout Season 3 Adds Breaking Bad Star Aaron Paul to Cast

Production seems to beryllium ramping up connected Fallout Season 3 arsenic the amusement has begun casting up of filming. Prime Video has confirmed successful a property merchandise that Breaking Bad prima Aaron Paul has been tapped to articulation the adjacent play of the highly palmy video crippled adaptation successful an undisclosed role.

Many of the characters successful the amusement are archetypal to the adaptation (with a tiny fistful of exceptions), truthful it wouldn't beryllium excessively shocking if Paul's quality isn't acquainted to fans. It's unclear if helium volition beryllium an antagonist oregon an state to the halfway characters of the show, but successful the Wasteland, fewer radical are wholly trustworthy.

This isn't the archetypal clip Aaron Paul has been linked to Fallout. The histrion was invited to a motorboat enactment for Fallout: New Vegas successful 2010, and photos of him astatine the lawsuit often marque the rounds successful the Fallout community. Some hoped that possibly this attraction would yet pb to Paul joining the show, and it appears the prophecy has been fulfilled. Paul besides has a nexus to the producers of the show, arsenic helium was a cardinal portion of HBO's Westworld, which was created by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, the producers of Fallout.

In 2024, Nolan told IGN that Aaron Paul was actively campaigning to beryllium successful a aboriginal Fallout season.

"Aaron Paul was astatine the premiere, a quality being I emotion truthful much," said Nolan. "And helium was precise polite. He was precise enthusiastic astir the show. There was benignant of an unspoken benignant of like, 'What's up, man?' But we've been proceeding from truthful galore people, and it's benignant of amusive to spot the Fallout fans travel retired of the woodwork. People you've known a agelong clip and you realize, 'Oh, you've been playing this full time." So it's been a batch of fun.'"

Aaron Paul's gaming roots widen beyond Fallout arsenic well. He played the protagonist successful the 2014 Need for Speed movie and earned acclaim for his relation arsenic Robert Robertson, aka Mecha Man, successful Dispatch. There's anticipation that Paul volition reprise his Dispatch relation successful a aboriginal play of the game, but thing has been confirmed.

Fallout Season 2 took spot successful and astir New Vegas, the mounting of 1 of the astir beloved games successful the series. However, it seems similar Fallout Season 3 volition determination to different caller location, arsenic the finale suggests that astatine slightest immoderate of the characters volition beryllium heading toward Colorado. As fans know, Colorado is not featured successful the Fallout games, dissimilar California and New Vegas.

Given that Fallout is perpetually juggling antithetic storylines with antithetic characters, it's hard to foretell wherever Paul mightiness acceptable in. He could transverse paths with The Ghoul successful Colorado. He could articulation forces with Lucy oregon Maximus. The amusement near the doorway wide unfastened for Season 3, leaving it hard to intelligibly theorize what's to come.

Fallout Season 3 is apt to merchandise sometime successful 2027, with filming expected to commencement this summer. There was a speedy turnaround for Season 2, truthful it isn't retired of the question that Season 3 volition beryllium released successful the summertime oregon autumn of 2027. Either way, it'll beryllium breathtaking to spot wherever the communicative goes and what this could mean for the larger Fallout beingness going forward.

Cade Onder is simply a freelancer for IGN's quality team. He covers each things entertainment, including gaming, film, and more. You tin find him connected Twitter @Cade_Onder.