The Last of Us Season 2 Production Halted Due to Hollywood Writers’ Strike
Production on The Last of Us season 2 has been put on hold, due to the ongoing writers' strike in Hollywood. As per Variety, the new episodes hadn't begun filming yet, but the crew had begun the casting process for season 2, with sources suggesting that the actors were asked to read lines directly from The Last of Us Part II game. Scripts for the sophomore run are not ready at the moment, but previous plans suggested that the team would start filming late this year or early 2024. The Last of Us season 2 was greenlit by HBO almost immediately — merely two episodes into the first season — highlighting its demand.
The report mentions that co-creator Craig Mazin was spotted on the picket line with fellow members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA), not participating in any writing or production work for The Last of Us season 2. The guidelines set by WGA state that all writer-producers are barred from participating in any writing or creative-based duties on film and television projects during the strike.
Having actors audition for their roles by reading lines from the video games isn't necessarily a bad thing either, because a lot of dialogue from the first season was picked word-to-word directly from the original 2013 game. But this does affect the release window for the show, which lead star Bella Ramsey claimed could likely be late 2024 or early 2025.
Mazin was responsible for writing the majority of the nine-episode-long The Last of Us season 1 episodes, with co-creator Neil Druckmann joining in for the series premiere and finale. Druckmann also wrote episode 7 ‘Left Behind' solo. Since The Last of Us Part II is a lot longer with brutal action scenes, the creators claimed that it would take more than one season to
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