HBO‘s The Final Of Us adaptation has obtained a large artistic shake-up – discover out extra beneath.
Yesterday (July 2), Neil Druckmann – Naughty Dog boss, co-creator of The Final Of Us video games, director and co-writer on of the HBO collection – introduced that he could be stepping away from season three of the TV present.
“I’ve made the troublesome determination to step away from my artistic involvement in The Final Of Us on HBO. With work accomplished on season 2 and earlier than any significant work begins on season 3, now’s the best time for me to transition my full focus to Naughty Canine and its future tasks, together with writing and directing our thrilling subsequent recreation, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, together with my obligations as Studio Head and Head of Artistic,” he wrote in a press release.
He mirrored on his work on the HBO collection, together with directing a number of episodes and writing: “Co-creating the present has been a profession spotlight. It’s been an honour to work alongside Craig Mazin to govt produce, direct and write on the final two seasons. I’m deeply grateful for the considerate strategy and dedication the gifted forged and crew took to adapting The Final Of Us Half I and the continued adaptation of The Final Of Us Half II.”
— Naughty Canine (@Naughty_Dog) July 2, 2025
Following his announcement, Halley Gross – who co-wrote The Final Of Us Half II and was a author and govt producer on the HBO collection additionally introduced that she could be stepping again from her “day-to-day work” on the collection. “I’ve some actually rad tasks forward that I can’t wait to share, however for now, I need to specific my gratitude to everybody who introduced Ellie and Joel’s world to life with such care.”
Artistic management for the Final Of Us season three – which can discover the story informed within the second half of the Final Of Us Half II recreation – will now relaxation solely with Craig Mazin – the writers room will embody Mazin, a Naughty Canine employees and one different author.
Mazin has issued his personal assertion, per Deadline: “It’s been a artistic dream to work with Neil and produce an adaptation of his sensible work to life on HBO. I couldn’t have requested for a extra beneficiant artistic associate. As a real fan of Naughty Canine and Neil’s work in video video games, I’m past excited to play his subsequent recreation. Whereas he focuses on that, I’ll proceed to work with our sensible forged and crew to ship the present our viewers has come to count on. We’re so grateful to Neil and Halley Gross for entrusting the unimaginable story of The Final Of Us Half II to us, and we’re simply as grateful to the thousands and thousands of individuals around the globe who tune in.”
Season three is ready to deal with the Abby character, although Mazin has teased that Joel (Pedro Pascal) will return: “We haven’t even seen the final of lots of people who’re at present useless within the story.”
Moreover, Mazin has been vocal of the present needing 4 seasons in whole to wrap up, that means an extra assortment of episodes will likely be within the works following season three. Nonetheless, it’s not clear what season 4 will entail, as season three will seemingly full the story informed within the second recreation. A 3rd recreation has not been introduced.
In a four-star assessment of The Final Of Us season two, Nick Levine wrote for NME: “At its greatest, The Final Of Us is unsettling sufficient to make you query your personal hypothetical ethical code. When day-after-day is about survival and making sense of post-apocalyptic chaos, does taking a life turn out to be simpler, or one way or the other even tougher? This present doesn’t simply go deep narratively – it additionally cuts deep emotionally.”
‘The Final Of Us’ season two is obtainable to look at within the UK on Sky Atlantic and NOW