The Last Of Us fans are worried about how faithfully the upcoming third season will stick to the hit video game series.
So far, the first two seasons of The Last Of Us have largely stayed true to the hit video game series. However last night (June 11) Deadline announced that Peter Sarsgaard will be joining the cast of The Last Of Us season three as original character Amon, who’ll play one of the leaders of the antagonistic cult the Seraphites.
Following the conclusion to The Last Of Us season two, the game’s co-creator Neil Druckmann announced he would be stepping away as co-showrunner on the HBO adaptation to focus on making more games. His fellow Naughty Dog employee Halley Gross (who worked as a writer and producer on the TV show) also confirmed she’d be leaving the project. Co-showrunner Craig Mazin now has total creative control over the future of The Last Of Us.
Mazin has already faced backlash for casting a cis actor to play trans character Lev in season three, and was forced to recast the role of Manny after Danny Ramirez stepped away from the project. Now with the addition of Sarsgaard’s original character, many fans are worried about the future of The Last Of Us.
“Shit like this is why I refuse to watch the show. Zero need for any added characters,” wrote one fan. “Genuinely what a falloff in quality and writing compared to season one and two, this is coming from a fan of both games,” said another. “If Craig keeps changing shit from the games and adding shit that wasn’t there originally, I’m going to lose my mind,” added a third.
“Season 2 was so bad that I honestly don’t care if the show gets canned. The pivot they needed to make the games fresh doesn’t translate well to TV. ‘Care about this new person that hates the person you grew to like’ has to be done very well for audiences to stick around,” wrote one Reddit user.
Mazin previously said that four seasons “seemed like a good number” for The Last Of Us. After the end of season two, he claimed there was “no way to complete this narrative” with just one more season but HBO bosses have suggested that the story will need to be wrapped up with a third and final season.
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