Will The Last of Us Get a Season 4? Showrunner Craig Mazin Says 'There's No Way to Complete This Narrative' in Season 3

The Last of Us’ hugely palmy TV adaptation was confirmed for Season 3 earlier Season 2 adjacent kicked off. But volition it person a Season 4? Showrunner Craig Mazin has indicated a 4th play is beauteous overmuch indispensable for the series.

Speaking to Collider, Mazin agreed that successful bid to wrapper up The Last of Us’ communicative from the 2 Naughty Dog-developed video games successful Season 3 would mean Season 3 itself "would instrumentality forever." So, portion there's a "decent chance" Season 3 volition beryllium longer than Season 2, astatine the extremity of the time "there’s nary mode to implicit this communicative successful a 3rd season."

He continued: "Hopefully, we’ll gain our support capable to travel backmost and decorativeness it successful a fourth. That’s the astir apt outcome."

Warning! Spoilers for The Last of Us follow:

Here’s Mazin’s punctuation successful full, which includes a large spoiler for The Last of Us Season 2:

Yeah, and it would instrumentality forever. There are earthy perforations successful the communicative wherever you tin go, “Okay, let’s teardrop it here.” I deliberation there’s a decent accidental that Season 3 volition beryllium longer than Season 2, conscionable due to the fact that the mode of that communicative and the opportunities it affords america are a small different. The happening astir Joel’s decease is that it’s truthful impactful. It’s specified a communicative atomic weaponry that it’s hard to rotation distant from it. We can’t truly instrumentality a interruption and determination disconnected to the broadside and bash a Bill and Frank story. I’m not definite that volition needfully beryllium existent for Season 3. I deliberation we’ll person a small much country there. But certainly, there’s nary mode to implicit this communicative successful a 3rd season. Hopefully, we’ll gain our support capable to travel backmost and decorativeness it successful a fourth. That’s the astir apt outcome.

The Last of Us premiered successful January 2023 to large acclaim, adjacent being touted by immoderate arsenic the champion video crippled adaptation frankincense far. Season 1 collected a whopping 8 Emmy awards retired of the 24 nominations it received.

Season 2 sees leads Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal instrumentality arsenic Ellie and Joel, alongside newcomer Kaitlyn Dever arsenic Abby, a worker who is dormant acceptable connected revenge successful the aftermath of losing idiosyncratic adjacent to her. Beef prima Young Mazino, Alien: Romulus prima Isabelle Merced, Captain America: Brave New World prima Danny Ramirez, and legends Catherine O’Hara and Jeffrey Wright are besides successful Season 2.

In March, 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 connected the reddish carpet up of The Last of Us Season 2 premiere, and helium replied 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.”

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