HBO‘s The Final Of Us adaptation has obtained a large inventive shake-up – discover out extra beneath.
Yesterday (July 2), Neil Druckmann – Naughty Dog boss, co-creator of The Final Of Us video games, director and co-writer on of the HBO sequence – introduced that he could be stepping away from season three of the TV present.
“I’ve made the troublesome determination to step away from my inventive involvement in The Final Of Us on HBO. With work accomplished on season 2 and earlier than any significant work begins on season 3, now could be the correct time for me to transition my full focus to Naughty Canine and its future tasks, together with writing and directing our thrilling subsequent sport, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, together with my duties as Studio Head and Head of Inventive,” he wrote in an announcement.
He mirrored on his work on the HBO sequence, together with directing a number of episodes and writing: “Co-creating the present has been a profession spotlight. It’s been an honour to work alongside Craig Mazin to govt produce, direct and write on the final two seasons. I’m deeply grateful for the considerate method and dedication the gifted forged and crew took to adapting The Final Of Us Half I and the continued adaptation of The Final Of Us Half II.”
— Naughty Canine (@Naughty_Dog) July 2, 2025
Following his announcement, Halley Gross – who co-wrote The Final Of Us Half II and was a author and govt producer on the HBO sequence additionally introduced that she could be stepping again from her “day-to-day work” on the sequence. “I’ve some really rad tasks forward that I can’t wait to share, however for now, I wish to categorical my gratitude to everybody who introduced Ellie and Joel’s world to life with such care.”
Inventive management for the Final Of Us season three – which is able to discover the story advised within the second half of the Final Of Us Half II sport – will now relaxation solely with Craig Mazin – the writers room will embrace Mazin, a Naughty Canine workers and one different author.
Mazin has issued his personal assertion, per Deadline: “It’s been a inventive dream to work with Neil and produce an adaptation of his sensible work to life on HBO. I couldn’t have requested for a extra beneficiant inventive accomplice. As a real fan of Naughty Canine and Neil’s work in video video games, I’m past excited to play his subsequent sport. Whereas he focuses on that, I’ll proceed to work with our sensible forged and crew to ship the present our viewers has come to count on. We’re so grateful to Neil and Halley Gross for entrusting the unbelievable story of The Final Of Us Half II to us, and we’re simply as grateful to the hundreds of thousands of individuals all over the world who tune in.”
Season three is about to deal with the Abby character, although Mazin has teased that Joel (Pedro Pascal) will return: “We haven’t even seen the final of lots of people who’re at the moment lifeless within the story.”
Moreover, Mazin has been vocal of the present needing 4 seasons in complete to wrap up, which means a further assortment of episodes will probably be within the works following season three. Nonetheless, it’s not clear what season 4 will entail, as season three will seemingly full the story advised within the second sport. A 3rd sport has not been introduced.
In a four-star evaluate of The Final Of Us season two, Nick Levine wrote for NME: “At its finest, The Final Of Us is unsettling sufficient to make you query your personal hypothetical ethical code. When daily is about survival and making sense of post-apocalyptic chaos, does taking a life turn into simpler, or someway even tougher? This present doesn’t simply go deep narratively – it additionally cuts deep emotionally.”
‘The Final Of Us’ season two is obtainable to look at within the UK on Sky Atlantic and NOW
