The creator of the HBO series The Last of Us, Craig Mazin, gives an update on season 2. Should we expect a significantly longer delay? Where are the teams now?
After the box of season 1, the series The Last of Us will have the right to a season 2. But due to the strike of the writers and the actors, the adaptation of the franchise of Naughty Dog is stopped. And this since last May. An improvement in the days to come? It does not take the path according to new statements by Craig Mazin.
A distant broadcast for season 2 of the series The Last of Us
For months, a strike of screenwriters and actors in Hollywood has frozen all productions in progress. From big movies like Gladiator 2 to all-important TV shows like The Last of Us series. a bad new. We will have to wait until at least 2025 to witness the sequel to the live-action adventures of Joel and Ellie in season 2 of the TLOU series. ” We plan to air Season 2 sometime in 2025 she had said.
Several months later, it’s the status quo and Craig Mazin no longer has too much hope of the start of filming in the summer of 2023. “I think we’re almost certain that we won’t be able to start filming The Last of Us season 2 on the date we were hoping for. Which is frustrating. We’re all looking forward to it. We were born to do this. We live for that and not because it is an obligation. Otherwise, why would we do this crazy work? Not for the money anyway, I can assure you of that” (via Entertainment Weekly). Given that the summer will end on September 23, it actually smells bad for the filming of this season 2.
Before the strike, Craig Mazin and his teams were still able to move forward. “We were able to plan all of Season 2. I also wrote and submitted the script for the first episode to HBO. I sent it to the channel around 10:30 or 10:40 p.m., just before the strike started at midnight”. When the situation unblocks, if it unblocks, everything will be ready to film the new episodes of The Last of Us series.
Spin-offs already in the mouth of creator Craig Mazin (Chernobyl)
At the time of writing these lines, the filming of season 2 of The Last of Us is therefore not about to start. Screenwriters and actors who fight for better working conditions are facing walls. Worse, we have the right to a contest of the most abject exits between the biggest entertainment companies.
Just this weekend, Netflix co-founder Ted Sarandos expressed concern that the negotiations could set a precedent that could inspire voices from other countries to rise. It is recalled that in addition to the demand from actors and screenwriters to be better paid, as well as to have a more rigorous framework for their profession, the latter are also demanding a better distribution of income from SVOD platforms. So from Netflix, Disney+ or even Amazon Prime Video. Services and companies that, for the time being, would rather people lose their jobs than concede a bigger slice of the huge pie.
No one can currently predict the outcome of this fight, and therefore, when The Last of Us season 2 will be released. Whatever happens, the TLOU series is here to stay and could even have babies. During a recent interview, Craig Mazin talked about potential spin-offs. “I’m not opposed to the idea of other series that could be inspired by these characters or this world. My great hope is that if this happens, it will be done with as much care, respect and love as what we are applying to do at this time”. Melanie Lynskey, who portrays the character of Kathleen, would not say no to a spin-off. “If they wanted to go back and create an origin story, I would be in. The story of how this woman got into this position [de leader] would be really interesting” she had asserted.