The Last of US: Creator Neil Druckmann leaves the HBO series, season 3 in danger?

The series The Last of Us Does it go a bad cotton? A big month after the end of the broadcast of its second season on The Max streaming platform,, and the revelation of disturbing audiencesthe HBO show has just taken a hell of a blow in the wing with the departure of one of its living forces.

This Wednesday, July 2, Neil Druckmann, a co-creator of both the original game and the series, announced that he was abandoning orders for the program and that he would not participate in the long-awaited season 3.

Craig Mazin alone at the controls

This “blow” announcement was made via an official press release on The Instagram account of the editor Naughty Dogsin which one can read a declaration of Neil Druckmann:

“I made the difficult decision to withdraw from my creative involvement on the series The Last of Us of HBO. Now that season 2 is over and even before I start season 3, the time has come for me to focus entirely on Naughty Dogs and its future projects, including writing and carrying out our exciting new game, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, as well as my responsibilities as director of studio and director of studio and director of studio and creative.”

Druckmann continues: “The co-creation of the series was a highlight of my career. It was an honor to collaborate with Craig Mazin for executive production, the realization and writing of the last two seasons. I am deeply grateful to the talented actors and the technical team for their thoughtful approach and their dedication during the adaptation of The Last of Us Part I and its suite The Last of Us Part II.”

Neil Druckmann is not the only one to leave the project, since he is followed by co-scenarist Halley Gross, who also confirmed his departure on His personal Instagram account. Gross had also co-written the video game The Last of Us Part IIas well as several episodes of the series Westworld.

If Druckmann retains an executive producer credit, this departure leaves the other Craig Mazin co-creator (also screenwriter of the acclaim Chernobyl) alone at the helm of the next season 3 of The Last of Usformalized last April by HBO.

Mazin will have a lot to do to straighten the bar on the series, after the more than mixed reception of the second season. She will have frustrated the spectators, while many fans have criticized the inconsistent changes compared to the game made on certain scriptwriting and characters, notably that of Ellie.

The Last of Us There remains a successful series and one of the jewels of the HBO crown, and there is no doubt that the chain will want to treat this long -awaited season 3 which will see the character of Abbie (Kaitlyn Dever) take all the light. However, its production has not yet been launched. To follow therefore.

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