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

Subsequent season of The Final of Us received’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 stated. “Hopefully, we’ll earn our maintain sufficient to come back again and end it in a fourth. That’s the probably end result.”

The quote comes from an intensive 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 perpetually,” Mazin stated about ending the occasions of the second sport within the third season. “There are pure perforations within the narrative the place you’ll be able to go, ‘Okay, let’s tear it right here.’ I feel there’s a good probability that season three might be longer than season two, simply because the way of that narrative and the alternatives it affords us are slightly totally different. The factor about Joel’s demise is that it’s so impactful. It’s such a story nuclear bomb that it’s onerous to get lost 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 feel we’ll have slightly extra room there.”

Audiences haven’t but seen the place season two ends, but it surely actually appears to be aiming at one of many second sport’s greatest “perforations” that Mazin mentions. Assuming the sport’s huge standpoint shift is the tip of this season, there’s positively much more story to go, but it surely’s a little bit of a shock to listen to Mazin flat out say they don’t wish 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 prematurely. “We at all times suppose forward,” he stated. “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 scenario the place we’re sitting down and entering 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 will we inform this huge story in a means that’s full and doable inside an period of time and with the price range we have now? And with this season, it was, ‘Okay, this supply materials goes means past one season.’”

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

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