Yahoo News ‘The Last Of Us’ Season 2 To Go Into Production In Early 2024 As HBO Eyes 2025 Premiere
The Last of Us will be heading into production for its second season early next year with an eye for a 2025 launch.
HBO boss Casey Bloys revealed the news at an event in New York.
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The series was renewed in January after scoring the second largest premiere after House of the Dragon since Boardwalk Empire’s launch in 2010.
It comes from Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann.
Based on Naughty Dog’s video game, The Last of Us takes place 20 years after modern civilization has been destroyed. Joel, played by Pedro Pascal, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie (Bella Ramsey), a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal and heartbreaking journey as they both must traverse the U.S. and depend on each other for survival.
In addition to Pascal and Ramsey, Season 1 also stars Gabriel Luna, Anna Torv, Nico Parker, Murray Bartlett, Nick Offerman, Melanie Lynskey, Storm Reid, Merle Dandridge, Jeffrey Pierce, Lamar Johnson, Keivonn Woodard, Graham Greene, Elaine Miles, Ashley Johnson and Troy Baker.
The Last of Us is written and executive produced by Mazin and Druckmann. The series is a co-production with Sony Pictures Television and is executive produced by Carolyn Strauss, Evan Wells, Asad Qizilbash, Carter Swan, and Rose Lam. The production companies are PlayStation Productions, Word Games, The Mighty Mint and Naughty Dog.
The Last of Us co-creator/executive producer Craig Mazin told Deadline earlier this summer that pre-strike they were able to get some work done and the first episode had already been written.
“We got pretty far actually, we were doing great,” Mazin said. “Neil and I had been sitting and talking with Halley Gross, who also worked on the second game as a writer, and Bo Shim, the new writer that was in our little tiny room with us — obviously not a mini room because we’re greenlit the proper, we’re a real show, and because I hate that mini room stuff.”
In an interview with Deadline in May, HBO Head of Drama Francesca Orsi said that the expectation for The Last Of Us was to return some time in 2025.
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