The New Vegas sequences in Season 2 of the television series 'Fallout' were filmed at the Valley Plaza Mall, a Los Angeles-area shopping center that opened in 1951 and has been dormant for more than a decade, rather than in Las Vegas itself, according to production designer Howard Cummings.
Fallout Season 2's New Vegas scenes filmed at abandoned Los Angeles mall, not in Nevada
The New Vegas sequences in Season 2 of the television series 'Fallout' were filmed at the Valley Plaza Mall, a Los Angeles-area shopping center that opened in 1951 and has been dormant for more than a decade, rather than in Las Vegas itself, according to production designer Howard Cummings.
Season 2 of 'Fallout' follows characters Lucy, played by Ella Purnell, and The Ghoul, played by Walton Goggins, through a post-apocalyptic desert landscape set in New Vegas. The first season was set in a post-apocalyptic version of Los Angeles, where Lucy searches for her kidnapped father.
Cummings told The Hollywood Reporter that the creative goal for the season was to depict Las Vegas as it appeared before a fictional nuclear bombing set in the year 2077, describing the intended aesthetic as a 'retro-futuristic Vegas.'
To achieve that look, Cummings chose the Valley Plaza Mall as the primary filming location, converting the long-abandoned structure into the show's version of New Vegas.
- No details are provided about the extent of set construction or modifications made to the Valley Plaza Mall.
- No information is given about why the production chose not to film in the actual Las Vegas or in a studio environment.
- No response or comment from the show's network or streaming platform is included.
- No information is provided about other filming locations used in Season 2.
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