‘The Final of Us’ Will Want a 4th Season to End Its Story

Subsequent season of The Final of Us gained’t be the final of it. In a brand new interview, the present’s co-creator Craig Mazin said that the upcoming third season of the present is not going to end the story of the second online game, The Last of Us Part II. “There’s no method to full this narrative in a 3rd season,” Mazin mentioned. “Hopefully, we’ll earn our hold sufficient to come back again and end it in a fourth. That’s the most definitely end result.”

The quote comes from an in depth interview with Collider the place Mazin, ahead of the upcoming season two finale, spoke about engaged on the third season, which HBO officially greenlit a few weeks back. “It will take without end,” Mazin mentioned about ending the occasions of the second recreation within the third season. “There are pure perforations within the narrative the place you possibly can go, ‘Okay, let’s tear it right here.’ I believe there’s an honest probability that season three can be longer than season two, simply because the way of that narrative and the alternatives it affords us are a bit totally different. The factor about Joel’s loss of life is that it’s so impactful. It’s such a story nuclear bomb that it’s exhausting to wander off from it. We will’t actually take a break and transfer off to the aspect and do a Invoice and Frank story. I’m undecided that can essentially be true for season three. I believe we’ll have a bit extra room there.”

Audiences haven’t but seen the place season two ends, however it actually appears to be aiming at one of many second recreation’s largest “perforations” that Mazin mentions. Assuming the sport’s large viewpoint shift is the tip of this season, there’s positively much more story to go, however it’s a little bit of a shock to listen to Mazin flat out say they don’t need to wrap it up subsequent season.

Fortunately, Mazin confirms that they don’t begin writing something till—not simply the upcoming season is deliberate, however even additional upfront. “We all the time suppose forward,” he mentioned. “We thought forward to season three and season 4, to attempt to get as a lot visibility as we are able to, in order that we don’t find yourself in a state of affairs the place we’re sitting down and stepping into particulars for a season after which going, ‘Oh, man, if solely we hadn’t had that particular person say that one line or be in that spot or put on that jacket, this may be a lot cooler.’ So, we actually do attempt to suppose issues via essentially. The problem for our first season was, how can we inform this large story in a approach that’s full and doable inside an period of time and with the funds we’ve got? And with this season, it was, ‘Okay, this supply materials goes approach past one season.’”

Actually, it would take three seasons. The season two finale of The Final of Us airs Sunday; we’ll have far more then.

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