Very like the Naughty Canine video games the present’s primarily based on, HBO’s The Last of Us was a large hit that secured a fanbase that’s anticipating season two to start. In fact, like virtually every part else, the Writers and Actors strikes have floor manufacturing for the zombie drama’s second season to a standstill. HBO wished to try to get forward of these strikes by holding auditions using the script from The Final of Us Half II (which it’ll partially be adapting), however these plans fell aside not lengthy after.
However in accordance with the video games’ co-director (and the present’s co-showrunner) Neil Druckmann, that sophomore season is able to bounce into manufacturing as soon as each these strikes come to an finish. Throughout a current walkthrough of The Last of Us-themed Halloween Horror Nights home, he stated the present’s workers “outlined all of season 2 and we’re able to go as quickly because the strike ends.” His phrases echo that of fellow showrunner Craig Mazin, who informed Entertainment Weekly in late August the present made first rate headway earlier than the strikes occur. On the time, Mazin stated the entire season two was mapped out, and he “wrote and submitted the script for the primary episode and despatched it in [to HBO] round 10:30 or 10:40 p.m. proper earlier than [the WGA] strike started.”
“We’re all raring to go,” stated Mazin to EW. “ That is what we’re born to do. That is how we not solely select to stay our lives, however I consider [how we] are compelled to stay our lives. In any other case, why the hell would we do that insane job? I can guarantee you it’s not for cash.”
Whereas it’ll be a while earlier than The Final of Us returns, Druckmann teased the Horror Nights attraction has some “actually cool stuff in there” that would find yourself teasing issues inside season two. Eagle-eyed followers within the space will little doubt discover these easter eggs and work out their theories from there, however what a couple of third recreation that’s been previously rumored (and truthfully, greater than anticipated) to be within the works? Druckmann might solely say that he “can’t say something. My comms director over there’ll slaughter me.”
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