How lengthy will The Last of Us run? The PlayStation sport sequence it’s primarily based on has solely two installments, together with some extra materials from DLC. Theoretically, a TV present model may spend a number of seasons adapting only one of the video games earlier than transferring on to the sequel — or it may take the video games as a leaping off level to inform a completely completely different (and maybe open-ended) story in a world ruined by a zombie plague.
But that’s not the plan for HBO’s The Last of Us, in accordance with its writers. Series co-creator and author Craig Mazin informed Collider that the first season that’s set to debut on HBO and HBO Max later this month adapts the occasions of the first sport The Last of Us. Should the present show well-liked sufficient to advantage extra seasons, they might cowl the story from The Last of Us Part II.
That sport is expansive sufficient that the TV model may probably demand greater than a single season to adapt all of it. And after that … that may most likely be it. Mazin mentioned the present is designed to be “finite” and received’t launch an ongoing story of Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) wandering by way of a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Essentially, in accordance with Mazin, they’re making a TV present of the video games. And as soon as they inform that story, the present will finish. As he put it:
…the story that is still [after Season 1], that continues forth in the work that Naughty Dog’s accomplished on the second sport, is quite a bit. Probably the quantity of remaining story would take us greater than a season to inform. But undoubtedly, I don’t see this as one thing that runs on and on and on. We don’t have that ambition. Our ambition is to inform the story that exists, as greatest as we are able to, in a distinct medium.
Mazin famous that this was how the sequence was initially pitched to HBO; as a present of the video games that may take as many episodes as wanted to adapt The Last of Us and The Last of Us Part II, and that’s it. “Our approach for future seasons [would be] to say, ‘Okay, this will be as many seasons as required to reach that ending, and no more,’” he added.
It appears like you need to put together your self for a really trustworthy model of the video games. But when you wished to see a present about the world past the video games … that doesn’t appear to be in the playing cards. The Last Of Us premieres on HBO and HBO Max on January 15.
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