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Total Film
Total Film
Entertainment
Lauren Milici

Fallout TV show didn't need to use CGI to create the Wasteland because it found the perfect real-life location

Fallout.

Prime Video's live-action TV adaptation of Fallout is visually stunning – and those wild desert sets are real.

Rather than throw some sand under a green screen, The Wasteland was shot in Namibia on the Skeleton Coast. This particular part of the desert is home to Kolmanskop, a ghost town filled with the ruins of once beautiful houses – much like the one Lucy walks into in episode two. The Namib Desert's dry climate keep not only the ruins of these houses, but their decorations and furniture intact. The former mining town, located in a part of the desert known as "the forbidden zone," was completely abandoned by 1956, with a private ghost tour company turning it into a tourist attraction in 2002.

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