‘The Last of Us’: Season 2 would adapt part 2 of the game, for which its creator received death threats

On Monday, January 16, “The Last of Us” will premiere on HBO Max, an adaptation of the video game of the same name that follows Joel and Ellie’s path across a post-apocalyptic United States. The first season should tell the whole story of the first game and, Despite not being available yet, the anticipation behind the project is so great that there are already talks about what idea the second season will rotate.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, showrunners of the series, hinted that the second season will deal with the story of ‘The Last Of Us: Part 2’, a video game that cannot be talked about without spoilers , but what It is set five years after the first one and has caused such a fury among fans that Druckman, also the author and director of this video game, has received death threats.

The video game saga does not yet have a third chapter and it is unknown when it will arrive, which raises the question of whether new seasons will continue to be produced when the series reaches the point where video games are, despite the fact that there is no more source material to adapt, or it will wait for the games. Druckmann compares it to what happened in “Game of Thrones”, a series that adapted the books of George RR Martin, but when the television adaptation reached the present day of the literary saga, the stories began to be created from scratch for the its seasons. Druckmann doesn’t think this will happen with ‘The Last Of Us’, he explains that they will not create storylines beyond those presented in the video games: “We have no plans to tell stories beyond adapting the games. The same problem as ‘Game of Thrones’ won’t happen to us, as Part II (of video games) doesn’t end open.”

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In the same interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Mazin makes it clear that he doesn’t want a series that is season after season of exhausted survivors endlessly walking through dilapidated buildings while watching out for zombies: “I have no interest in a series revolving around the same idea forever. When (a series) becomes an eternal movement machine, it can’t help but get a little… silly. The finals mean everything to me.”

*’The Last Of Us’ will premiere January 16 on HBO Max.