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THE GHOUL IS BACK...AND THIS TIME AROUND, HE'S SET TO BATTLE THE DEATHCLAW! STEP ONTO THE FALLOUT SET WITH SFX FOR A BEHIND-THE-SCENES PEEK AT SEASON TWO IN ALL ITS POST-APOCALYPTIC GLORY.

- ADAM TANSWELL

SFX IS SITTING IN Jonathan Nolan's director chair on the set of Fallout. It's a dull, drizzly day in Los Angeles, but there are much brighter skies displayed on the huge LED volume screen inside Stage 15 of Culver City Studios. The top-secret scene being shot today involves a conversation between Maximus (Aaron Moten) and Elder Quintus (Michael Cristofer) as they wander across a walkway on a Brotherhood of Steel airship called The Caswennan. The huge Zeppelin is hovering in the empty skies above the Wasteland, a scene that will appear in an early episode of the eight-part second season.

“The story of season two picks up directly after the season one finale,” explains Moten, taking a break from filming. “Maximus is newly promoted and he's dealing with what it means to be a leader among his faction of the Brotherhood of Steel. He's been given the 'golden boy' treatment for having been the slayer of Moldaver. It's a newfound position for him and it brings with it a lot of questions, such as, 'How do I lead? What kind of leader am I?’”

Moten is thoughtful and engaging with his answers: “I think it's a good start to his journey of making his own decisions about the world that he lives in, as opposed to where we find him in season one. In season one, he still had a sense of discovery. He was thinking about things like, 'What do I actually want? What is important to me?’ This is more about, 'How do I start to carve my path?”

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