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Very similar to the Naughty Canine video games the present’s primarily based on, HBO’s The Final of Us was a large hit that secured a fanbase that’s looking forward to season two to start. After all, like nearly every little thing else, the Writers and Actors strikes have floor manufacturing for the zombie drama’s second season to a standstill. HBO wished 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 bounce 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 instructed Leisure Weekly in late August the present made first rate headway earlier than the strikes occur. On the time, Mazin mentioned the entire 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 stay our lives, however I consider [how we] are compelled to stay 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 would 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 few third recreation that’s been beforehand rumored (and actually, greater than anticipated) to be within the works? Druckmann may solely say that he “can’t say something. My comms director over there’ll slaughter me.”
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