Fallout Season 3: Key Information
– Announced in May 2025
– No release date or trailer news to report
– Filming must begin in mid-2026
– Executive producer wants to get it “back on the air as soon as we can”
– Cast and plot details are still under wraps
– Should feature characters that survived last season’s finale
– The story will pick up after season 2 episode 8
– Unclear if a fourth season will be made
Fallout Season 3 is officially in development, sugar bombs. In fact, another installment of the popular Prime Video show is already in the works, so there will be more adventures across the Wasteland in the future.
Fallout season 3 release date prediction
Amazon’s popular dystopian drama does not yet have a firm return date. However, Fallout season 3 was officially announced last May, so it’s been in development for at least eight months.
Speaking to IGN last December, executive producer Jonathan Nolan revealed that principal photography may begin Fallout The TV show’s third season in mid-2026 as well, before adding that he wants to get the series “back on the air as soon as we can”. Sounds like the cast and crew don’t want to make us wait three years for it.
But when could we see it? Season 1 took seven months to shoot, while its follow-up was filmed in just five months. From a post-production perspective, Season 1 launched 14 months after filming wrapped, while Season 2 arrived just seven months after its shooting schedule ended. If—and it’s a big if—Season 3 follows in the latter’s footsteps, it’s no wonder it could premiere sometime in mid-2027.
Fallout Season 3 Trailer: Is There One?
No, and there won’t be one for a long time yet. Once a trailer is revealed I will update this section.
Fallout season 3 cast: confirmed and rumored
Full spoilers follow Fallout season 2.
Based on how last season ended, here are the big players we expect to see in Fallout season 3:
- Ella Purnell as Lucy MacLean
- Aaron Moten as Maximus
- Walton Goggins as The Ghoul/Cooper Howard
- Moises Arias as Norm MacLean
- Frances Turner as Barbara Howard
- Teagan Meredith as Janey Howard
- Johnny Pemberton as Thaddeus
- Annabel O’Hagen as Stephanie Harper
- Leslie Uggams as Betty Pearson
- Dave Register as Chet
- Rodrigo Luzzi as Reg McPhee
- Leary Leary as Davey
- Xelia-Mendes Jones as Dane
- Michael Christopher as Quintus
- Justin Theroux as Robert House
- Macaulay Culkin as Lacerta Legate
- Rachel Marsh as Claudia
I expect other supporting characters to be back for more post-apocalyptic drama as well. Dale Dickey’s Ma June, Edythe Jason’s Barv and Barbara Eve Harris’ Captain Rodriguez have had bit-part roles to play throughout Fallout‘s TV adaptation. There is no reason why they wouldn’t be there again next time.
Fallout season 3 was also set to continue with flashbacks centered around Cooper and Barbara Howard. If it does, we could also see Dallas Goldtooth’s Charles Whiteknife, Clancy Brown’s unnamed US President and Michael Emerson’s Siggi Wilzig return.
Given that Kyle McLachlan’s Hank MacLean has been a prominent figure throughout the show’s first two seasons, you might be wondering why I haven’t mentioned him until now. Well, there is no guarantee that he will return. Sure, an aged McLachlan could continue to appear as a younger Hank in the aforementioned flashbacks I mentioned above. But given what happened to him in last season’s finale, we could have seen the last of Hank in the present.
Fallout season 3 story speculation
Major spoilers follow Fallout season 2.
Fallout Season 3’s story map has not been released yet. But given what went down in its predecessor’s finale – read my Fallout season 2 finale explained article for a full breakdown of what happened – we can make assumptions about where things will go next.
Let’s start with Lucy and Maximus. The pair finally reunited in last season’s finale, titled ‘The Strip’, but new trouble awaits them in New Vegas.
Not only are they smack-bang in the middle of a potential war between Caesar’s Legion and the New California Republic for control of the city, but I’d be surprised if they’re not forced to help Robert House at some point. We know that his digital consciousness is still alive and that House has a way of manipulating people to suit his agenda. I wouldn’t be shocked then if the duo gets involved in whatever nefarious scheme he’s up to.
As for The Ghoul, he’s headed to Colorado to track down his family. I suspect his recent stint in the Wasteland will be interspersed with more flashbacks from before the Great War, which should also show us the outcome of Cooper Howard (i.e. The Ghoul’s human identity) being arrested after he took the fall for the un-American actions taken by the Cooper family throughout Season 2.
There are plenty of other stories that need to be addressed and/or resolved Fallout season 3. We need answers on where Norm and Claudia are going next, what phase two of The Enclave’s plan is—you know, the one Steph set in motion using the black Pip-Boy—and how it will affect the residents of Vault 32, whether the Brotherhood of Steel will succeed in reviving Liberty Prime’s superweapon program, and more.
Then there are the big questions that last season’s eighth and final episode threw up when it debuted on one of the world’s top streaming services.
With the revelation that Hank and Steph were secretly married, is Lucy and/or Norm’s real mother actually Steph? If one or both are her offspring, how would being half-Canadian affect their sense of self and, more importantly, the overall narrative?
Next, with The Ghoul heading to Colorado, we’ll see some elements of Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steela somewhat obscure real-time strategy title that’s part of Bethesda’s beloved video game franchise referenced in Season 3?
As for Norm and Claudia, will the latter look at the former differently after he chose to save himself instead of helping her during the robbery attack? How will they find Claudia’s home safe? If they can’t, what is their plan to survive on the surface? And will Norm ever find out the truth about his father?
Finally, as The Enclave becomes a more prominent part of Amazon’s TV adaptation, the series will finally pull back the curtain on what it is and how it works for those who haven’t played either Fallout game? Or will it continue to operate in the shadows until later in the TV series’ life cycle? I guess these last two queries depend on whether more seasons are made. Speaking of which…
Will there be a fourth season of Fallout?
We don’t know. But considering how successful Fallout has been, it is more likely than not that a fourth season will be developed.
Before Season 2’s final episode aired, Deadline reported that Fallout‘s second outing was on pace to become the fourth-highest-grossing returning series on Prime Video. Its second season is also the sixth most watched in the streamer’s history, with only Fallout season 1, Reacher seasons 1 to 3, and Rings of powers first two installments are seen by more people.
Add comments made by Aaron Moten at Liverpool Comic-Con 2025 (per The Gamer) that it could last for five or six seasons, there is no reason to assume that Amazon will call time on the successful TV series anytime soon. So expect more adventures across the Wasteland after Season 3.
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