If you were worried The Last of Us would stretch itself too thin, fear not, as the creators say the HBO series will stay true to the games.
Game creator Neil Druckmann and one of the minds behind the HBO series Craig Mazin dove into where they see the story heading after adapting The Last of Us 2. The answer will allow fans to rest easy as we don’t have a ten-year The Walking Dead situation on our hands.
Recently, Druckmann and Mazin spoke to THR about the future of the series and stated it would stick to the games and only venture within the stories already established. Druckmann says, “We have no plans to tell any stories beyond adapting the games. We won’t run into the same issue as Game of Thrones since Part II doesn’t end on a cliffhanger.”
Mazin adds, “I don’t have any interest in a spinning-plates-go-on-forever show. When it becomes a perpetual motion machine, it just can’t help but get kind of…stupid. Endings mean everything to me.”
The Last of Us Season 1 will cover the entirety of the first game, including some elements that weren’t in the game, as well as additional material from the expansion game The Last of Us: Left Behind. If the series were to get a second season, the creators would look to adapt the controversial The Last of Us Part II.
The Last of Us story takes place twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed. Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse the U.S. and depend on each other for survival.
The Last of Us stars Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian) as Joel and Bella Ramsey (Game of Thrones) as Ellie alongside Gabriel Luna, Merle Dandridge, Jeffrey Pierce, Anna Torv, Nico Parker, Murray Bartlett, Nick Offerman, Lamar Johnson, Storm Reid, Keivonn Woodard, Graham Greene, and Elaine Miles.
The Last of Us will premiere on January 15th, 2023.
