HBO’s The Last of Us live-action series is currently shooting its second season. Based on the first looks we’ve seen and the set photos that have been circulating online, the second season will likely cover the earliest sections of Ellie’s revenge tour in The Last of Us Part II. From the sound of it, HBO may be looking to expand the second game into not one, not even two, but possibly three seasons.
In an interview with Deadline , showrunners Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin confirmed that the second season of the show will include seven episodes, one of which Mazin describes as “quite big” but not “feature length.” This is two fewer episodes than season one, which covered the entirety of the first game’s events in nine episodes. This number came after “careful consideration” from the two after the decision was made to tell Part II’s story across multiple seasons.
“The story material that we got from Part II of the game is way more than the story material that was in the first game, so part of what we had to do from the start was figure out how to tell that story across seasons,” Mazin told Deadline. “When you do that, you look for natural breakpoints, and as we laid it out, this season, the natural breakpoint felt like it came after seven episodes.” Anyone who’s played The Last of Us Part II knows what that “breakpoint” likely is.
If they’re adapting the sequel into multiple seasons, it would probably make sense to end season 2 after Ellie.
