The highly-anticipated debut of the sequence adaptation of “The Last of Us” lastly arrives this month. The sequence hails from present creators Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin (“Chernobyl”) and relies on the wildly profitable Naughty Dog online game that focuses on a post-apocalypse setting after a fungi virus outbreak has decimated the human inhabitants and has turned billions of people into zombie-like “Clickers.”
During a chat with Consequence TV (through @TheLastofUsInformation on Twitter), Mazin stated they’ve loads of unused materials to make a number of seasons however was fast to level out they’re not aiming to make six or seven seasons.
“The amount of story that remains that we have not covered would be more than a season of television. So, yeah, assuming we can keep going forward, the idea would be to do more than just one more season.” He additionally alluded to having an inside endgame, “This isn’t the kind of show that is going to be seven seasons or six. I think every episode should deserve your eyeballs. I just want to make sure that if someone sits down to watch an ep, it’s awesome, every single time.”
Druckmann additionally stated the next whereas talking with Collider earlier within the week, form of reinforcing that they’re not going to pull this out longer than they must:
“Yeah, I remember, early on, I asked Craig and HBO, “How many episodes does this season need to be” And the reply was, “As many as the story requires, and no more.” And likewise, that will be our strategy for future seasons to say, “Okay, this will be as many seasons as required to reach that ending and no more.”
Previously, there had been indications that at the least two seasons are on the desk, however Mazin’s feedback would recommend they may very well be aiming for 4 or 5 seasons if the need is there. While there are two video games to attract supply materials from, we gained’t understand how a lot they’ve tackled within the first season till of us have watched it and in contrast the timeline to the sport.