HBO’sThe Last of UsMight Not Follow the Second Game’s Story Exactly

It ’s no secret that season one ofHBO ’s The Last of Uswas very faithful to the television game it ’s based on . There were somechanges , addition , and tweaks , butin term of overall purport and story , the plot and the show were very exchangeable . That would conduct buff to assumesubsequence seasonsof the show would be equally faithful to the even moreemotional and shocking 2d game , The Last of Us Part II . However , in a new audience , co - showrunner Craig Mazin tell that may not actually be the case , especially in esteem to arguably the grownup spoiler in the game .

If you ’ve played The Last of Us Part II , you know what we ’re talking about , but if you have n’t and you want to attempt to persist unspoiled , depend away .

For the most part , The Last of Us Part II hinges on the actions of Joel , played by Pedro Pascal in the show . year after the events of the 2d time of year , a womanhood name Abby , who is the daughter of the MD Joel killed saving Ellie , chase after him down and ( last chance ) shoot down him . Joel ’s murder then becomes Ellie ’s master reason to set out and find out Abby . She want revenge .

Pedro Pascal on The Last of Us.

Pedro Pascal on The Last of Us.Image: HBO

utter toEsquire , Pascal himself seems to call back that ’s what ’s going to happen . “ It would n’t make sense to espouse the first game so faithfully only to tramp severely from the path , ” he said . “ So , yeah , that ’s my dependable answer . ” His co - star , Bella Ramsey , allege something similar . “ If that does take place in the show , ” Ramsey said , “ I do n’t know that I ’m emotionally quick for it . ”

Since The Last of Us is based in the main on the two game , and actor sign contracts for specific lengths of time , one would sham both Pascal and Ramsey know if the show will stamp out Joel or not . But , peradventure not . In the same Esquire opus , Mazin cast some doubt on that happen . “ This should be fairly obvious to anyone by now , but I do n’t fear killing characters , ” Mazin enunciate . “ But the important thing to take note is that neither Neil [ Druckmann , Mazin ’s co - showrunner ] nor I experience constrained by the source material . ”

That ’s a very diplomatic way of potentially hiding the biggest spoiler for a highly predict second season of one of HBO ’s biggest late hitting , and Mazin certainly is n’t lying that he does n’t feel “ encumber by the reference cloth . ” But if certain elements of that source textile were to be altered , it could alter the chronicle entirely . The Last of Us Part II is not the same if Joel stays live . It just is n’t . He ’s going to kick the bucket . He has to .

Graphic: Jim Cooke

And yet , while the deed come fair early on in the game , you ’d imagine that ’s where a modification could come . Mazin has stated thatthe second game is potential to be split into two time of year , and one could very easily see a world where Joel ’s death becomes the cliffhanger leading into the last season . That could be a way to give fans what they want — more Pedro Pascal — while also staying honest to the secret plan .

So , what do you suppose ? Will Joel go bad on The Last of Us show ? If so , when ? And is there a humans in which The Last of Us is The Last of Us without that happening ?

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