Season 2 for HBO’s The Final Of Us might be 7 episodes lengthy, showrunners Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann have confirmed. Two episodes lower than what we acquired with season one, however it looks like Mazin and Druckmann consider it’ll higher serve the story of The Final Of Us Half II over a number of seasons.
“The story materials that we acquired from Half II of the sport is far more than the story materials that was within the first recreation, so a part of what we needed to do from the beginning was work out learn how to inform that story throughout seasons,” Mazin informed Deadline in a brand new interview.
“Whenever you do this, you search for pure breakpoints, and as we laid it out, this season, the pure breakpoint felt prefer it got here after seven episodes.”
It’s previous information that Mazin and Druckmann agreed it could be unimaginable to repeat what they did with the primary recreation within the sequence and adapt the story into one single season.
There’s no assure although that they’ll get these additional seasons to inform the story as fully as they might wish to. Till HBO indicators on for as much as 4 seasons, the pacing of the story is up within the air.
Throughout these preliminary seven episodes for Season 2, Mazin confirms we’ll have at the least one episode that’s significantly lengthy. So maybe if HBO deny the request to get the story informed in 4 seasons, the third after which last season might be a bunch of very lengthy episodes to make up for it.
Mazin nonetheless sounds assured one thing like that gained’t be the present’s future.”We really feel prefer it’s virtually assuredly going to be the case that — so long as individuals preserve watching and we will preserve making extra tv — Season 3 might be considerably bigger. And certainly, the story could require Season 4.”
Earlier than the top of the interview Mazin doubled-down, saying “One factor is totally for positive, I don’t see how we may inform the story that continues to be after Season 2 is full in another season.”
Even with all this speak of probably needing 4 seasons, Mazin reiterates that he under no circumstances intends to attempt to invent a brand new story for The Final Of Us, for now the present will solely cowl materials already within the video games.
Nonetheless that places into query what’s going to occur when/if a 3rd recreation is revealed. There’s been hints from Druckmann that it’s occurring, or that Naughty Canine is at the least circling the thought of doing a 3rd recreation, in the event that they’re not already engaged on it.
Which suggests we may get a future the place this HBO adaptation finishes with The Final Of Us Half 2 after 4 seasons, and by that point The Final Of Us Half 3 has rolled round, and instantly work begins to adapt it for a fifth and doubtlessly a sixth season.
We’ll simply must see how that seems. For now, we will sit up for Season 2, which is about to reach in 2025.
Supply – [Deadline]