‘The Last Of Us’ Season 2 Will Have 7 Episodes And Will Likely Extend To A Third Season — UPDATE
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Season 2 of hit HBO TV adaption ‘The Last Of Us’ arrives in 2025, but it’s confirmed to be shorter than Season 1 with seven episodes as opposed to nine.
A potential third season will be “significantly larger” according to series co-creators and directors Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann.
“The story material that we got from Part II of the game is way more than the story material that was in the first game, so part of what we had to do from the start was figure out how to tell that story across seasons,” Mazin said. “When you do that, you look for natural breakpoints, and as we laid it out, this season, the national breakpoint felt like it came after seven episodes.”
“We don’t think that we’re going to be able to tell the story even within two seasons [2 and 3] because we’re taking our time and go down interesting pathways which we did a little bit in Season 1 too,” Mazin continued. “We feel like it’s almost assuredly going to be the case that — as long as people keep watching and we can keep making more television — Season 3 will be significantly larger. And indeed, the story may require Season 4. — One thing is absolutely for sure, I don’t see how we could tell the story that remains after Season 2 is complete in one more season.”
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In an interview from earlier this year with Empire, Mazin and Druckmann looked to settle any fan concerns over the speculation that they planned to tell the entire story from Part II within seven episodes:
“We just want to put people’s minds at ease that the idea that this season coming up is a little bit shorter than the first one is not because we’re taking less time to tell the stories, it’s because we want to take more time,” Mazin said. “The story that we’re telling is much bigger than the story of Season 1, there’s just a lot more going on, it’s a lot harder to produce but we want every episode to feel like its own blockbuster to be honest with you.”
Season 2 of ‘The Last of Us’ features returning stars Pascal, Ramsey, Gabriel Luna as Tommy, and Rutina Wesley as Maria, joined by a slew of new cast members including Kaitlyn Dever as Abby, Isabela Merced as Dina, Young Mazino as Jesse, Ariela Barer as Mel, Tati Gabrielle as Nora, Spencer Lord as Owen, Danny Ramirez as Manny and Jeffrey Wright as Isaac, with Catherine O’Hara also guest starring.
Watch a clip from season one of ‘The Last Of Us’ below:
