If you have a mighty need for more flesh-eating mushroom monsters in HBO’s The Last Of Us – Season 2 will be upping the ante.
During a pre-show press conference on Sunday, The Last of Us showrunners Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin addressed a lingering criticism from fans that the show didn’t feature many infected (thanks, IGN).
“Within the episodes that we were concentrating on, I think ultimately we generally stressed the power of relationships and trying to find significance within moments of action,” Mazin said. “And so, there may be less action than some people wanted because we couldn’t necessarily find significance for quite a bit of it or a concern that it would be repetitive.”
“After all, you’re not playing it – you’re watching it,” Mazin continues. “Although a lot of people do like to watch gameplay, it needs to be, I think, a little bit more focused and purposeful when we’re putting it on TV.”
Changes to the source material were inevitable, and franchise co-creator Neil Druckmann doesn’t blame fans for being upset. When it comes to battling the infected, though – the cuts were apparently necessary.
“We took a very high-level approach and looked at just the action across the board,” Druckmann explained. “Every piece of action, if you look at the show, has to move character in some way. If it doesn’t move character and it was only there for spectacle, then it was an easy cut for us.”
Season 2 will adapt The Last of Us Part 2‘s story – partially, at least. Filming might begin later this year, according to Pedro Pascal.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.
