The Last of Us 2 previews: 5 things we already know about the second season

The first season of The Last of Us has just ended on HBO – and, in Italy, on Sky and in streaming are NOW – but we are already thinking about the second season, if not even the third. The great success of the series based on the famous video game by Naughty Dog for PlayStation meant that HBO confirmed a second season already shortly after the debut of the first. Reason why the co-creators of the series Craig Mazin e Neil Druckman they are already planning to plan the story and decide which events to include in the next episodes. The two authors have released several interviews, letting some slip away advances which we have tried to put in order. Here are five things, without spoilerwhich we already know about the second season of The Last of Us.

The Last of Us: 5 important teases about season 2

The second season will not include all the events of the second volume of the video game

Released for PlayStation 4 in 2020, seven years after the original game’s debut, the sequel video game The Last of Us: Part II expands on Joel and Ellie’s story. There are a lot more characters, flashbacks and action scenes, which is why Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann confirmed to GQ UK That the second season will not be able to include all the stories of the second volume of the video game. The writers didn’t specify exactly how many seasons they plan to spread them into but, they said, “definitely more than one season.”

More infected and action to come

Some loyal fans of the video game have complained that, especially in the last few episodes of this first season of The Last of Us, there weren’t many action sequences and there were few infected, the “enemies” who have contracted the Cordyceps infection and who are to be eliminated or avoided in the game. The co-creators, while noting how a series is essentially very different from a video game (“You have to watch the series, you don’t have to play it”, said Mazin), they ensured that from next season there will be “many more infected and maybe of different types”. In addition to the so-called clicker and you have bloater already seen in these first episodes, we will find creatures that players know very well as the shamblermonsters covered in pus-filled spores.

A leap forward but no recasting for Ellie

Part 2 of the video game The Last of Us makes a time jump of 5 years forward and so will the second season of the series. Some fans, therefore, have wondered how the series will “age” the character of Ellie (Bella Ramsey). The co-creators immediately made things clear: there will be no recasting and Ramsey will return as Ellie also in the second season. As Mazin pointed out, the actress was 17 when she filmed season 1 and now she’s 19. exactly Ellie’s age in the video game sequel.

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The cast: old and new characters

In addition to Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey, they will almost certainly return next season as well Gabriel Luna e Rutina Wesley, the interpreters of Tommy and Maria. As already happened in the first season, some actors who have lent their voices and their faces for the video game could also be involved in the series. It is the case of Laura Bailey (who plays Abby in the video game) and who, after having held a small part in the season finale, could return as another character. Just Abby, as fans of the video game know, is a very important character in The Last of Us: Part II so we will definitely see her in the new episodes. Similarly, we will meet Dina, a character who will establish a special bond with Ellie.

The start of filming and when it comes out

We still don’t know when HBO plans to release season 2 of The Last of Us. At the end of February, however, Peter Pascal told to Collider that there is “a possibility” that filming of new episodes will already begin later this year. If so, The Last of Us may return with season 2 as early as 2024.