One of the issues with diversifications is all the time that we all know the place the story goes to go. Hundreds of thousands of folks performed The Last of Us Half II years earlier than the sequence set out to adapt the occasions of the recreation into season two of the upcoming sequence. Whereas we all know that the second recreation will type the foundation of The Last of Us season two, the showrunners have been fast to guarantee us they’ve taken a pair of inventive liberties to preserve us guessing.
“There are issues the place we don’t have the factor of shock, maybe, the means the video games did,” Craig Mazin, co-showrunner on The Last of Us alongside Naughty Canine’s Neil Druckmann, said in a recent interview. “So much of individuals who performed the [first] recreation understood that Joel’s daughter was going to die in a short time in the first episode. These folks weren’t stunned. They felt it as a result of it’s the journey.”
Nevertheless, identical to the first season expanded on Invoice and Frank’s small half in the first recreation to emotionally devastate us with a standalone episode, season two of The Last of Us goes to stray from the online game’s plot the place wanted. The character of Eugene, who was solely heard about second-hand by Ellie in The Last of Us Half II, goes to get a a lot larger function in the sequence after Mazin noticed the hints that the recreation laid out about his destiny.
Druckmann is on board with the concept as effectively. “I get excited once I see these alternatives,” he mentioned in the identical interview. “I’m like, ‘Oh, I don’t know Eugene that effectively!’ The story we informed [in the game] was considerably superficial. The means this character comes in actually will get to the coronary heart of Joel and Ellie and their relationship.”
The Last of Us season two, which is able to adapt the first half of the second recreation in the sequence, is ready to debut on HBO on April 13, 2025.