If There Is No The Last of Us 3, Would Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann Keep the TV Show Going Past the Games?

Amid question marks astir the aboriginal of The Last of Us video crippled series, fans are wondering wherever the communicative mightiness spell adjacent aft the HBO bid Season 2 and 3 screen disconnected the 2nd video game. Earlier this month, bid creator Neil Druckmann formed uncertainty connected the imaginable of The Last of Us 3, saying: “I conjecture the lone happening I would accidental is don’t stake connected determination being much of ‘Last of Us.’ This could beryllium it.”

But if there’s nary The Last of Us 3, would Naughty Dog and Druckmann support the TV amusement going past the games?

That’s the question IGN enactment to Druckmann himself successful a caller interview, and helium replies to accidental that portion helium has an ending of The Last of Us communicative successful mind, due to the fact that he’s not definite if he’ll get the accidental to marque The Last of Us 3, he’s leaving thing connected the line.

“I person to person an ending,” Druckmann said. “When I made The Last of Us 1, I didn’t cognize if determination was going to beryllium a sequel, truthful that had to beryllium a definitive ending. When I worked connected Uncharted 4, I don’t cognize if we’ll ever get to bash it again. I request it to beryllium a definitive ending. Last of Us 2, aforesaid way. All these things person to enactment up.

“I don’t cognize however agelong I’ll support doing this oregon whether I’ll beryllium fixed different opportunity. So I permission thing connected the line.

“Right present it’s like, we person an ending successful mind. And that ending volition beryllium it. That ending volition beryllium it for this story.”

One question hanging implicit Druckmann is if helium volition adjacent person the clip to marque The Last of Us 3, were it to beryllium greenish lit for production. That’s due to the fact that helium has his hands afloat with The Last of Us TV show, which is acceptable to round-out the events of The Last of Us 2 video crippled with Season 2 and Season 3, and the precocious announced PlayStation crippled Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet.

“As acold arsenic everything else, and you’re asking maine astir aboriginal games, my clip truthful overmuch is, we person to decorativeness this season,” Druckmann continued. “We’re not rather done. We’re astir there. Knock connected wood we get to bash it again. Season 3, there’s a batch much communicative we person to cover, arsenic you cognize with crippled two.

“And past my hands are beauteous afloat with Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet.”

In February 2024, Druckmann teased a "concept" for a imaginable The Last of Us 3 astatine the extremity of Grounded 2: Making The Last of Us Part 2, noting that there's "probably 1 much section to this story."

"The archetypal crippled had specified a cleanable conception of like, the unconditional emotion a genitor feels for their child," helium said. "The 2nd one, erstwhile we landed connected this thought of the pursuit of justness astatine immoderate cost, justness for the ones you love, we felt like, 'there's a cleanable conception present and there's a throughline from the archetypal game, astir love.' If we ne'er get to bash it again, this is simply a good ending point. Last wound of the apple, the story's done."

"The large happening astir moving astatine Naughty Dog is that we don't person to," helium added. "It's ever like, 'we would emotion different Last of Us, but if you guys consciousness you're passionate astir thing else, we'll enactment this different thing.' Very privileged presumption to beryllium in, I ne'er instrumentality that for granted. I've been conscionable reasoning astir it, 'is determination a conception there?' And for present years, I haven't been capable to find that concept. But recently, that's changed, and I don't person a story, but I bash person that conception that to maine is arsenic breathtaking arsenic 1, arsenic breathtaking arsenic 2, is its ain thing, and yet has this throughline for each three. So it does consciousness similar there's astir apt 1 much section to this story."

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