‘The Final of Us’ Will Want ...

Subsequent season of The Final of Us received’t be the final of it. In a brand new interview, the present’s co-creator Craig Mazin said that the upcoming third season of the present is not going to end the story of the second online game, The Last of Us Part II. “There’s no strategy to full this narrative in a 3rd season,” Mazin mentioned. “Hopefully, we’ll earn our hold sufficient to return again and end it in a fourth. That’s the probably consequence.”

The quote comes from an intensive interview with Collider the place Mazin, ahead of the upcoming season two finale, spoke about engaged on the third season, which HBO officially greenlit a few weeks back. “It might take endlessly,” Mazin mentioned about ending the occasions of the second recreation within the third season. “There are pure perforations within the narrative the place you’ll be able to go, ‘Okay, let’s tear it right here.’ I believe there’s a good likelihood that season three will probably be longer than season two, simply because the way of that narrative and the alternatives it affords us are slightly totally different. The factor about Joel’s demise is that it’s so impactful. It’s such a story nuclear bomb that it’s onerous to wander off from it. We are able to’t actually take a break and transfer off to the aspect and do a Invoice and Frank story. I’m unsure that may essentially be true for season three. I believe we’ll have slightly extra room there.”

Audiences haven’t but seen the place season two ends, nevertheless it actually appears to be aiming at one of many second recreation’s greatest “perforations” that Mazin mentions. Assuming the sport’s huge viewpoint shift is the top of this season, there’s undoubtedly much more story to go, nevertheless it’s a little bit of a shock to listen to Mazin flat out say they don’t wish to wrap it up subsequent season.

Fortunately, Mazin confirms that they don’t begin writing something till—not simply the upcoming season is deliberate, however even additional upfront. “We at all times suppose forward,” he mentioned. “We thought forward to season three and season 4, to attempt to get as a lot visibility as we are able to, in order that we don’t find yourself in a scenario the place we’re sitting down and entering into particulars for a season after which going, ‘Oh, man, if solely we hadn’t had that individual say that one line or be in that spot or put on that jacket, this might be a lot cooler.’ So, we actually do attempt to suppose issues by way of basically. The problem for our first season was, how can we inform this huge story in a method that’s full and doable inside an period of time and with the funds now we have? And with this season, it was, ‘Okay, this supply materials goes method past one season.’”

The truth is, it’d take three seasons. The season two finale of The Final of Us airs Sunday; we’ll have rather more then.

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