With a season properly mapped out, the only thing standing in the way is studios infected with a lack of good business sense.
Much like the Naughty Dog games the show’s based on, HBO’s The Last of Us was a massive hit that secured a fanbase that’s eager for season two to begin. Of course, like almost everything else, the Writers and Actors strikes have ground production for the zombie drama’s second season to a standstill. HBO wanted to try and get ahead of those strikes by holding auditions using the script from The Last of Us Part II (which it’ll partially be adapting), but those plans fell apart not long after.
But according to the games’ co-director (and the show’s co-showrunner) Neil Druckmann, that sophomore season is ready to jump into production once both those strikes come to an end.
