It was a bit of a surprise when we learned about the directors a few months ago, but finally the creators of ‘The Last of Us’ have confirmed that season 2 of the video game adaptation will be significantly shorter than the first batch. Specifically, they have revealed that will only have seven episodes (compared to the nine in the 1st).
Of course, to somehow “compensate” this issue, Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann They assure in Deadline that the season 3 will be significantly longer than this next batch. And even then they are not sure if they will be able to fit the entire story of ‘The Last of Us Part II’ or will they need a fourth season.
Everything, yes, yes From HBO they continue to renew the series. In Mazin’s words:
«I don’t think we will be able to tell the story even in two seasons [2 y 3] because we’re taking our time and going down interesting routes, which we did a little bit in season 1. It seems to us that it’s almost certainly going to be the case, as long as people keep watching and we can keep making television, that season 3 will be significantly longer. And, of course, the story may require season 4.”
Step by step
“One thing is completely certain”says the co-creator of the series, “I don’t see how the story that remains after Season 2 is complete in one more season”. And Mazin and Druckmann are clear that They want to take things easy to tell everything that is going on in that second installment of the video game.
«We want to reassure people with the idea that this coming season is a little shorter than the first one, it’s not because we’re taking less time to tell the stories, it’s because we want to take more time. The story we are telling is much bigger than season 1, there is much more, it is much more complicated to produce, but we want each episode to feel like its own blockbuster, to be honest.”
In fact, they anticipate in this sense that some of the episodes will have a considerable duration. Otherwise, the choice of the number of episodes came after long and careful consideration when unfolding the narrative of Part II already taking into account several seasons in mind. That’s when they realized that After episode 7 came a natural point to close the season.
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