In a parking lot on Victory Boulevard in North Hollywood, a nuclear wasteland has been created. Wrecked RVs, rusting cars and half-dead palm trees line the sand, all surrounding a twisted version of Nevada’s most famous neon sign.
This is the set of Amazon’s upcoming second season of “Fallout,” the Emmy-nominated hit adaptation of the Bethesda video game series. Fans of the show are eagerly waiting to see how Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet’s show adapts the 2010 video game “Fallout: New Vegas,” which transforms Sin City into an apocalyptic citadel.
When those episodes air, they will see a New Vegas that was brought to life in California, a creation of local Hollywood magic that is becoming increasingly rare and which “Fallout” producer Jonathan Nolan warns will go extinct if the California Film and TV Tax Credit Program doesn’t get a sufficient overhaul in the next few months.