The phenomenon came to an end… at least for a while. After nine weeks full of emotion, spectacular audience numbers and more than positive reviews, The Last of Us He closed his first season in style. One of the aspects most praised by fans was the way in which the first episodes managed to stick to the events of the first game, with some changes to improve some elements. But the second one has numerous important events that require enough time to adapt to the screen, how will they make it happen? The Last of Usseason 2, can it be faithful to the original material?
In interview for GQ UK., Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, creators of the series, talked about the long road ahead of the second season. The success of the first chapters undoubtedly carries a great responsibility, and any bad decision could be detrimental to the reputation of the project. For this reason they have chosen to adapt the events of the second video game in an extended way. This they responded when asked if the second season would cover the entire arc of the video game released in 2020.
“No. No, no way,” Mazin replied. “It’s more than one season,” added Druckmann. “You have correctly noted that we will not say how many [temporadas]. But more than one is factually correct,” Mazin said.
The first season of The Last of Us introduced us to Joel and Ellie, two survivors in apocalyptic Boston, years after a cordyceps fungus pandemic transformed millions of humans into zombie-like monsters. Although the story of the series remained extremely faithful to its source material, it had small changes that were very well received by the fans. And the same will happen with the new batch of episodes.
“Some of the things that excite me the most [de la parte 2] are the changes we have discussed. And see the story come alive again in this other version. I think it’s exciting because it builds on those feelings you had from the game, really strong, in a new way,” added Druckmann.
On the other hand, a constant rumor has been the possible recast of Bella Ramsey as Ellie. In the game, there is a gap of five years between the events of the first and second parts. For this reason, many believed that another actress would take the role of Ellie to be more in line with the levels of violence that are expected. However, Ramsey is 19 years old today. By the time of filming the next season, she will be older than the character in the second game. This is how the creators confirmed that Ramsey will continue in the project to Entertainment Weekly:
“Let’s leave this alone. One of the hard things about the casting process is that we invite people to join us in this process, and we know everything. [sobre los secretos de la producción]. Nobody else knows anything except what they know, which is the game. We know what we’re going to do in terms of costumes, makeup and hair, but more importantly, we also know the spirit and soul of the actor. The only way we would ever consider recasting Bella is if she said ‘guys I don’t want to work with you anymore’. And even then, we wouldn’t give it to him. We could force her to go back to season 2,” Mazin concluded.
For now, there are no more details about season 2 of The Last of Us. HBO confirmed the realization of this one, but, apparently, we will have many more. Do you think that the next chapters manage to correctly adapt the events of the second video game?
Juan Jose Cruz I am one of those who always defended Robert Pattinson as Batman and can see the same movie in the theater up to 7 times. My guilty pleasure? Low budget horror movie.