The Last Of Us Showrunner Reaffirms That Season 2 Is “Raring To Go”

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There are a lot of ironies going on right now with The Last Of Us franchise. For example, the game has a “Halloween Nights” event coming up in which Troy Baker and Ashley Johnson will reprise their roles as Joel and Ellie for the “experience. Then, there are the rumors that a third entry in the franchise is in the works at Naughty Dog, though that hasn’t been confirmed as of yet. Finally, there’s everything going on with the live-action adaptation. The HBO series debuted at the beginning of the year and instantly made a splash with fans and critics.

It was so good that not only did it set ratings records, but it got nominated for 24 Emmys. Many would easily say it’s the best video game adaptation ever created, making the wait for Season 2 all the harder. But that’s the last irony to talk about because Season 2 isn’t going to be released for a long time, thanks in part to the Writer’s and Actor’s Guild Strikes. The former has happened since earlier in the year, and the actors followed suit a few months afterward. As a result, any “production” work for writers and actors has stopped.

In an interview with EW, The Last Of Us showrunner Craig Mazin reaffirmed something he said in July, that he has finished the first script of the second season and that his team is “raring to go” to make the rest:

“We were able to map out all of season two. And I also wrote and submitted the script for the first episode and sent it in [to HBO] around 10:30 or 10:40 p.m. right before the midnight [makes a “kajoomph” sound] and the [WGA] strike began.

I think it’s becoming essentially a near certainty that we won’t be able to start [filming] when we were hoping to start, which is upsetting. We are all raring to go. This is what we are born to