The “The Last of US” creator has set a stage for “dense episodes” in Season 2 (excretory).

A specific memory has been sticking to our last creator Neil Dracman since he was making the second acclaimed video game. He remembers that his partner, Craig Mazin (Chernobyl), jumps into the Santa Monica’s Natdog Headquarters and is not only Season 1 but also the HBO series Season 2. On the other hand, the United States Part II.

“We are talking about game 2. In fact, there are many changes in anticipation of the adaptation of game 2. So, even before the game 2 comes out, where the characters are heading, And eventually we were deeply in conversation about what we were trying to say. ”

However, in addition to these brainstorming, Dragman has a particularly difficult time in 2020. His team not only worked through a global COVID-19 pandemic that forced the release of the game, but also missed the large-scale plot point of the story. 。 It continued to be toxic reactions and even the threat of death to the creators and actors. The response was not for the selection of the story itself, but it was received from the context, encouraging the gamer community to judge its own assumptions.

“Some of these things were trauma to the border,” he admitted, and almost five years later, he and Mazin were trying to present the game story to new kinds of audience, so he looked back on the reaction. 。 “It happened at the beginning of Cobid. So all the negative things happened at once. You can’t help but think about it now, one of the stories that you will be forever. But our brand does not do anything for the story. There is a very specific story I thought, and we are particular about guns.

The strategy will continue to be rewarded. Our last part II became a sense, sold more than 4 million units on weekends alone, and won the award after won the game prize, the Game Industry Oscar. And now, Mazin and Draguman are preparing for the 7 episode second season of the show, which will start the part II in April this year, so they do so from the pedestal of their work. 1. Pedro Pascal as Joel and Ellie Bella Ramsey, as Ellie, gained the evaluation of the game of thrones and the Emmy perception.

“Tens of millions of people like it every week, but it’s a difficult figure to move our hearts,” says Mazin. “We are responsible for them. We think that our work is to continue what we have done. That is the challenge of people, we feel happy, surprise, and make them feel. It is to trigger ideas in them. ”

“We do not respond to the fear of the audience, which means our own fear of how they respond to it,” says Dragman. “We keep asking,” What is the best choice for this story for these characters? “And that’s the choice we do. ”

The audience will definitely have a fierce response to Season 2 events, but it is difficult to talk about what the pair actually accompanies. Almost all can be considered spoilers. When NauGhty Dog released a trailer to advertise a part II video game for context, the studio edited characters in a specific scene to maintain surprise. They are not completely fully this time, but all the scenes that appear in Season 2 teaser were surgically carved. And many of them are related to a new character named Abbey.

Season 2 will appear five years after Season 1 event. It recorded Joel and Ellie’s treks and treked the US, a post -implanted, pandemix decadel. As you can see in the exclusive photo of the EW in the series, Jackson, a commune operated by Joel’s sister -in -law, Maria (Lutina Wesley), who has a child with his brother Tommy (Gabriel Luna), is settled in Jackson I am doing it. Ellie enjoys the normal life as a teenager at once. She happened to fall in love with her best friend, Jesse (Young Magino), Dina (Isabellamelseed). However, there is a tension between her and Joel. Joel is still working on the actions that saved Ellie’s life in the finale of Season 1.

Abbey arrived at this time of relative peace. Again, Abbey’s details are intentionally ambiguous, but she says, “I’m looking for a recovery for her loved ones, so she’s a black -and -white perspective in the world. It is explained as a skilled soldier who is being challenged. One big clue appeared in the previous trailer. This featured a specific close -up of the firefly pendant hanging from the neck. “I rarely enter our show for an accident,” Koi Dracman commented at that moment.

Ellie and Abbey’s storyline is very intertwined with the game, so the casting of Kaitlyn Dever (Booksmart, no one will save you) is poetic. As Druckmann recalls, SCREEN GEMS originally wanted to turn our end into a movie a few years ago, but it was never together. They assembled a group of actors for tabled, and there was a young dever who read the role of Ellie. “We just kept contacting,” Dragman says. “When I talked about Season 2, I think Craig had the idea of ​​using Katelin for Abbey. The reason I cast Kaitin was because she was an incredible actor. You are her job and her. Seeing a way to throw yourself … we value the performance more than others. ”

Abbey is not alone. Among her crews are Owen (Spencer Road), a gentle soul and the closest friend of Abbey. Mel (Ariela Barler), a doctor and an Owen girlfriend. Nora (Tatty Gabriel), military medicine. Manny (Danny Ramirez), a faithful soldier -Everyone is struggling with his past sins and trauma. (In the exclusive photo of EW, I see for the first time that these four people are treking in the snow with DEVER’s Abbey.)

One of the biggest differences from the game that fans definitely pointed out are Abbey’s physique. The game AbbY, who originally acted through Laura Bailey’s performance capture, is a muscular woman with a towering muscular woman, and Devere’s Abby is approaching Ramsey Ellie. Dragman has some ideas about this theme in the spirit of fans’ comments.

From the viewpoint of the story, Dragman points out that the show has various priority items. In the game, Abbey, like Joel, “she can physically operate specific things,” but the element did not play a major role in this version. “There aren’t many violent actions instantly,” he says. “That’s the details of the drama. I don’t say that there is no action here. Again, how to prioritize and how to approach it.” There is, “he continues. “What I always loved this idea was that you would be constantly challenged as you are in Season 1. When you try to choose a hero, we are humans. Yes, we are not a hero, there is a way to connect to the villain.

Mazin said, “Personally, I think there is an amazing opportunity to delve into a person who is physically vulnerable than the game Abbey, but that spirit is strong. How does it appear?” It will be explorated later. ”

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Season 2 is certainly just the beginning. Mazin and Druckmann have previously announced plans to adapt part II events over multiple seasons. HBO has not officially green the third outing, but has a conversation. “I think our story is more likely to grow over Season 3,” says Mazin. “How far have you passed? I can’t say. That doesn’t mean there is no other story to speak, but this story is Neil and I say.”

“I have a plan,” says Dragman. “We know what we need to do in the future, but we couldn’t tell you exactly right now.

According to DRUCKMANN, the first exercise of mapping the show trajectory was to divide the entire arc of part II into chunks and understand what kind of story would be spoken or expanded. When I identified the location of Season 2, and now I have started working in an unbearable way in the golden age of the 8 episode season, which falls into Episode 7.

“Each episode is like a meal. You can have a light dinner or go to a 12 -course French restaurant,” says Mazin. “There are seven episodes. They are high -calorie and dense episodes. If you think that action, dramas and ranges create magnificent properties, each of these episodes is very packed with wallops. Nothing.

This includes the incorporation of the deleted material examined in the game. Some of them were first announced in the Remaster version of Part II. Dragman is bullying a specific material, “It’s pretty cruel, but people are very excited to see it.” Catherine Ohara also arrives in a role we have never seen in the game, but not just her. “Like what I did in Frank (Malay Bartet) in Season 1 this season, there are quite a lot of remarkable characters in the game.” “I hope there is a very cool casting and I can talk right away.”

There are so many questions left. The trailer released so far indicates that Jeffrey Light has played a role in part II, that is, the role of Isaac, the leader of a large -scale militia group. In the game, he is a person who does not watch the player until the second half, but he appears in Season 2, which is adapted to television. Part II also played on a non -linear timeline and exchanged for two major characters, Ellie and Abbey. Is the same method adopted in the show?

“Most of the theme of the second game is about the viewpoint, someone’s hero is the villain of someone else, and the other way is about the story that the structure may be spoiled. It is strange to speak, “says Dragman. “For those who are familiar with games, I think it’s a part of the fun to see how they approached the challenge in the show, so is it worth mentioning where we landed? I don’t even know that we have tried a lot of things.

At least, “We are certainly trying to get confused over time like source materials, but as Neil said, we were confused in the way we felt suitable for the show.” Says Mazin. “When I say” mess “, it means that we think we are the most influential in the story of the story. ”

Regardless of how the audience responds to those changes, the praise and evaluation of the duo should win both shows and season 1. They seem to know what they are doing.