Season 2 of HBO and Sony Interactive Entertainment’s The Last of Us TV series will add a character backstory that fans will “eat up”, according to co-creator Neil Druckmann.
During a recent interview, Druckmann mentioned that what he’s really enjoyed while working on The Last of Us TV series is seeing people who have watched the show first and then gone and played the game, and talked about their experience. According to him, the game sometimes hints at things that the creators simply aren’t able to get into the show in a manner that the game can, and vice versa. He said that if people experience both, they’re richer for it. He added that he enjoys hearing about those experience from people.
Druckmann went on about how people tell him that they watch the show and then play the game, and that they really like how different the Bill sequence is, giving them a different insight into the character.
The Naughty Dog president and HBO series co-creator mentioned that there are things in season 2 of The Last of Us TV series that he’s really excited about. These are things that the showrunners have already hinted at. A scene in particular that came to his mind is one that Druckmann believes fans of the game will “eat up”, because it tells a lot of backstory of an important character that couldn’t really have been told by Naughty Dog in The Last of Us Part II.
In related news, it was revealed by Isabela Merced, who plays Dina in season 2 of The Last of Us TV series. that Kaitlyn Dever, who plays Abby, had to be given extra security when it came to the filming due to disgruntled fans of the game series. She reminded everyone that the character is not a real person, but that hasn’t stopped angry people from hating on her regardless.
