The Last of Us Part 2 to be More Than One Season in HBO TV Series - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 13 March 2023 / 3,262 Views
The Last of Us co-creators Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin in an interview with GQ revealed The Last of Us Part 2 will be split into more than one season in the HBO TV series.
"No. No way," said Mazin when asked if the second season would encompass the entire second game. Druckmann added, "It's more than one season."
The two were asked if it would be two or three seasons and Mazin stated, "You have noted correctly that we will not say how many. But more than one is factually correct."
Druckmann on the process going into the second season says he finds the process is easier.
"There's more trust, there's more of a shorthand, I know that I'm working with my friend, that even when we have some very strong disagreements, it's always light," said Druckmann. "I've been in so many situations, where if you disagree with someone, it feels like life or death. The process here is really a joy."
Mazin added, "I wouldn't say that there were any main disagreements. It wasn't like for three weeks I was like 'Ellie should be a boy' and he was like, 'What?! No.' These things are always tiny. ‘Should she say this word or this word?’ All the subtleties are where Neil and I think, invest a lot of our effort and attention, because that's where we find beauty."
Mazin and Druckmann were asked about how the second game relies on perspective shifts that are unique in video games and how they would adapt it into the HBO TV series.
"I think we know what we’re doing on this one," said Mazin. "I'm not saying that in snarky way, I’m saying that in a hopeful way. There are going to be things that are going to be different, and there are things that are going to be identical. There are things that are going to be added and enriched. There are some things that are going to be flipped.
"Our goal remains exactly what it was for the first season, which is to deliver a show that makes fans happy. We've got an incredible returning cast. It's a daunting task. But Jesus, so was the first season. You can't make everyone happy. But we've made a lot of people happy and that's our intention to do it again."
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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We all knew that, the game is super long for a single player game and there is more factions , lore etc than first game. Two protagonists , etc
My only criticism of the amazing first show is that some episodes needed to be longer like 1:30 hours.
Season 2 will be more brutal and more packed with action i think.
I can't help but think they'll want to put off losing Pascal until it's absolutely unavoidable - putting a certain key event at the end of season 2 instead of the start maybe? And then in season 3 having a lot of flashback scenes?
im so glad netflix didnt get hands on this franchise it needed to be a masterpiece like the games are
S2 focused on Ellie and S3 focused on Abby?
They need to drag it on longer until TLoU3 game comes out
Four years for two seasons and then we get the last game
Part 1 should have been two seasons. There was plenty of content to stretch it out over two 9 episode seasons before going into the events of Part 2. I was really hoping they would flesh out the backstories of some of the other characters. When the core game takes anywhere from 15-20 hours, you know they could have made the show longer than it was.
I wonder if HBO for pt 2, will be less grotesquely idiotic than Naught Dog - with its character destruction, violence porn, plot stupidity, and revenge hysteria nonsense.
They at least couldn't do any worse........?????
Nah they are good, it will be faithfull to the amazing game.
Try play the game all the way through
