The primary season of HBO’s  wrapped up on Sunday night time, and the present’s creators are already looking forward to the problem of adapting the second sport. HBO swiftly greenlit a second season after the present turned a direct success, however that will not be sufficient to include , as Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann confirmed.
“No. No method,” Mazin stated when  requested if the second season would discover the whole story of Half II (the interview comprises spoilers for ). “It’s multiple season,” Druckmann added, although Mazin declined to say whether or not they’d want two or three seasons to cowl the occasions of Naughty Canine’s sequel. In any case, The Final of Us is simply formally renewed for season two, not a 3rd or fourth one as but.
As if the duty of adapting the lengthy, formidable Half II didn’t already appear daunting sufficient, Mazin and Druckmann have an unlimited new viewers to appease. The present has been an enormous hit to this point. HBO that nearly 30 million viewers have watched the primary 5 episodes throughout all platforms. We’ll have to attend and see if these people stick round after [spoiler] within the chalet basement, however the present’s creators aren’t too involved.
“I do not care. How they react is how they react, that’s fully exterior of our management,” Druckmann informed GQ in response to a query concerning the TV viewers’s response to the occasions of Half II. “So how can we make one of the best TV present model of that story? That is the issue that we wrestle with on daily basis.” Mazin added that he’d quite viewers have a robust emotional response than an detached one.
In the meantime (and here is the place we’ll get into some delicate spoilers), the pivotal opening scene of the finale was initially conceived as a part of an animated brief, which did not come to go. Based on , Druckmann stated he then spoke with an exterior studio about making a separate sport specializing in Ellie’s mom, Anna, however that fell via as effectively. The present gave him an opportunity to revisit that a part of the story, which options Ashley Johnson (who stars as Ellie within the video games) as Anna.
