While the sequel to “The Last of Us” is scheduled for 2025, we learn that season 2 will be shorter than the previous one. The creators should then catch up in season 3, or even 4.
The Last of Us : a shorter season 2
The success of The Last of Us was impressive. Launched in January 2023, the series based on the eponymous video game managed to convince both gamers and a new audience, by offering a very faithful live version to the original work. Proof that interest was strong, the series was the most searched for on Google in 2023. The show also accumulated an impressive number of views, allowing HBO to break some records. The only problem in the picture is the wait that there is now between the first and second seasons.
The filming of the next episodes has fallen behind schedule, and it will be necessary wait until 2025 to be able to discover them. To wait, HBO still revealed the first images of Joel and Ellie, the two main characters of season 1, played by Pedro Pascal And Bella Ramseyand which the public can’t wait to see again.
However, fans may be a little disappointed when season 2 of The Last of Us will be launched. Because to believe Deadlinethis new chapter will be shorter than the previous one. We will therefore have to be content with “only” seven episodescompared to nine in season 1. A choice explained by Craig Mazin, who indicated that the history of the game The Last of Us II was so long that they had to think about the best moments to end each upcoming season.
The narrative material that we have, with the second part of the game, is much more important than for the first. So from the beginning, we had to figure out how to tell this story over the seasons. When you do that, you look for natural breakpoints, and as we explained, this season the breakpoint appeared after seven episodes.
A longer season 3 and at least four seasons
No panic for those who are afraid of missing out, since at least one of the episodes of season 2 of The Last of Us will be “long enough“. Not necessarily as long as a feature film, but still longer than the rest. But the best is yet to come, since the showrunner also looked at the sequel after season 2. after him, it will be necessary at least four seasons to tell the whole story that the creators have in mind. Because beyond the story of the game, there will still be new elements (like episode 3 centered on Bill and Frank). And if season 2 will be shorter, conversely, “season 3 will be considerably longer“.
Finally, Neil Druckmann continued to display their ambition with this show. Their goal being to make each episode a major, big-budget work. Reason why production time is so long.
The story we’re telling is much bigger than Season 1, there’s a lot more going on, and it’s harder to produce. But we want every episode to feel like a blockbuster.
Fans of the video game know how big the story of Season 2 is. For the others, we will still have to wait before finding out what it is.
