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Very like the Naughty Canine video games the present’s based mostly on, HBO’s The Final of Us was a large hit that secured a fanbase that’s longing for season two to start. After all, like nearly the whole lot else, the Writers and Actors strikes have floor manufacturing for the zombie drama’s second season to a standstill. HBO needed to try to get forward of these strikes by holding auditions utilizing the script from The Final of Us Half II (which it’ll partially be adapting), however these plans fell aside not lengthy after.
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However in accordance with the video games’ co-director (and the present’s co-showrunner) Neil Druckmann, that sophomore season is able to leap into manufacturing as soon as each these strikes come to an finish. Throughout a current walkthrough of The Final of Us-themed Halloween Horror Nights home, he mentioned the present’s workers “outlined all of season 2 and we’re able to go as quickly because the strike ends.” His phrases echo that of fellow showrunner Craig Mazin, who advised Leisure Weekly in late August the present made respectable headway earlier than the strikes occur. On the time, Mazin mentioned all the season two was mapped out, and he “wrote and submitted the script for the primary episode and despatched it in [to HBO] round 10:30 or 10:40 p.m. proper earlier than [the WGA] strike started.”
“We’re all raring to go,” mentioned Mazin to EW. “ That is what we’re born to do. That is how we not solely select to reside our lives, however I consider [how we] are compelled to reside our lives. In any other case, why the hell would we do that insane job? I can guarantee you it’s not for cash.”
Whereas it’ll be a while earlier than The Final of Us returns, Druckmann teased the Horror Nights attraction has some “actually cool stuff in there” that might find yourself teasing issues inside season two. Eagle-eyed followers within the space will little doubt discover these easter eggs and work out their theories from there, however what a couple of third sport that’s been beforehand rumored (and truthfully, greater than anticipated) to be within the works? Druckmann might solely say that he “can’t say something. My comms director over there’ll slaughter me.”
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