In ‘Fallout,’ a destroyed L.A. comes to life, with some help from ... Namibia?

Prime Video’s “Fallout” might have been set in a nuclear war-ravaged Colorado or vaguely defined Southwestern desert, depending on whom you talk to. The final impetus was trying to incorporate the physical production of making the thing into the actual storytelling.” Although the rest of the series was shot in and around New York City and adjacent to Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats, Namibia’s desert-meets-the-sea landscapes and long-abandoned Kolmanskop diamond mining installation provided keynote looks for bomb shelter-raised heroine Lucy MacLean’s journey from her underground vault through L.A.’s irradiated Wasteland. “It was really Howard’s design and finding Namibia that was the touchstone for us; the show should look like this really interesting mixture of practical buildings and this expansive space,” Worth says. And the Griffith Observatory, where Season 1’s finale takes place, had to have its exterior digitally replaced while the interior auditorium — missing part of a wall so it looks out on a destroyed downtown L.A. VFX vista — was filmed on a volume stage specially built for “Fallout” at Long Island’s Gold Coast Studios. The interior auditorium at Griffith Observatory — missing part of a wall so it looks out on a destroyed downtown L.A. VFX vista — was filmed on a volume stage specially built for “Fallout” at Long Island’s Gold Coast Studios.