The Last of Us’ vastly profitable TV adaptation was confirmed for Season 3 earlier than Season 2 even kicked off. But will it have a Season 4? Showrunner Craig Mazin has indicated a fourth season is just about important for the sequence.
Speaking to Collider, Mazin agreed that with the intention to wrap up The Last of Us’ story from the 2 Naughty Dog-developed video video games in Season 3 would imply Season 3 itself “would take perpetually.” So, whereas there is a “respectable likelihood” Season 3 can be longer than Season 2, on the finish of the day “there’s no solution to full this narrative in a 3rd season.”
He continued: “Hopefully, we’ll earn our maintain sufficient to return again and end it in a fourth. That’s the almost definitely final result.”
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Here’s Mazin’s quote in full, which features a huge spoiler for The Last of Us Season 2:
Yeah, and it will take perpetually. There are pure perforations within the narrative the place you’ll be able to go, “Okay, let’s tear it right here.” I feel there’s an honest likelihood that Season 3 can be longer than Season 2, simply because the style of that narrative and the alternatives it affords us are just a little totally different. The factor about Joel’s loss of life is that it’s so impactful. It’s such a story nuclear bomb that it’s onerous to wander off from it. We can’t actually take a break and transfer off to the aspect and do a Bill and Frank story. I’m unsure that can essentially be true for Season 3. I feel we’ll have just a little extra room there. But definitely, there’s no solution to full this narrative in a 3rd season. Hopefully, we’ll earn our maintain sufficient to return again and end it in a fourth. That’s the almost definitely final result.
The Last of Us premiered in January 2023 to main acclaim, even being touted by some as the very best online game adaptation up to now. Season 1 collected a whopping eight Emmy awards out of the 24 nominations it acquired.
Season 2 sees leads Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal return as Ellie and Joel, alongside newcomer Kaitlyn Dever as Abby, a soldier who’s lifeless set on revenge within the wake of shedding somebody near her. Beef star Young Mazino, Alien: Romulus star Isabelle Merced, Captain America: Brave New World star Danny Ramirez, and legends Catherine O’Hara and Jeffrey Wright are additionally in Season 2.
In March, sequence creator Neil Druckmann solid doubt on the prospect of The Last of Us 3, saying: “I suppose the one factor I’d say is don’t guess on there being extra of Last of Us. This might be it.”
But if there’s no The Last of Us 3, would Naughty Dog and Druckmann maintain the TV present going previous the video games?
That’s the query IGN put to Druckmann himself on the crimson carpet forward of The Last of Us Season 2 premiere, and he replied to say that whereas he has an ending of The Last of Us story in thoughts, as a result of he’s unsure if he’ll get the possibility to make The Last of Us 3, he’s leaving nothing on the road.
“I’ve to have an ending,” Druckmann stated. “When I made The Last of Us 1, I didn’t know if there was going to be a sequel, in order that needed to be a definitive ending. When I labored on Uncharted 4, I don’t know if we’ll ever get to do it once more. I want it to be a definitive ending. Last of Us 2, identical means. All this stuff need to line up.
“I don’t know the way lengthy I’ll maintain doing this or whether or not I’ll be given one other alternative. So I go away nothing on the road.
“Right now it’s like, we have now an ending in thoughts. And that ending can be it. That ending can be it for this story.”
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