Welcome back, everyone.
It's Charlie.
HBO just released The Last of US Season two teaser to announce
that they've renewed the show.
Neil Druckman has talked a lot about their plans
for what they're going to be doing with the story for season two.
So we'll break it all down.
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Please don't post a bunch of spoilers for what happens during the Last of US two.
There's a lot of people that haven't played the game yet
and careful for spoilers for everything that's happened on the show so far.
I'm not going to go too deep into the story of the game
just because of me posting this video.
Only two episodes have aired so far
and there are a lot of people out there that never played the games
and are just seeing this all happen for the first time on the show.
But if you haven't played the games
I've talked about this in my previous episode videos,
but the show is basically following the games pretty closely with a few changes.
There might be some bigger changes in later episodes that we haven't seen yet,
but mostly it's following the games they're currently to Last of US games.
Neil Druckman actually recently started talking about The Last of US three,
and they're also in the middle of making The Last of US multiplayer game,
which is like additional characters and breaking news story.
So there is theoretically way more
additional canonical material for them to adapt for the show.
But this is what Neil Druckmann said about Last of US three
just because that would be like the next logical place
for the story to pick up in future seasons after they finish the story.
Part two
He says Our process is the same thing we did when we did part two,
which is if we can come up with a compelling story
that has universal message and statement about love
just like the first and the second game did, then we will tell that story.
If we can't come up with something,
we have a very strong ending with part two and that will be the end.
I think he's just pulling the taffy a little bit with that because a lot
of the people who made the Last of US to game, particularly Neil Druckmann,
said that they regret revealing that they were making the game so early.
Fans found out that they were making the second game relatively
soon after them releasing the first game.
Usually studios wait a bit longer before they reveal that.
So I think with the show hitting so big and being so popular in season one so far,
they just want to wait
a little while longer before they say, Oh yeah, by the way,
we're going to be doing The Last of US three.
There'll be way more story, four more seasons after that.
But based on the two games
that they currently have, they said that Season one
is meant to cover the entire story of just the first game
and they plan on breaking up the story of the second game the last of US
two across multiple seasons.
They could break it into two seasons.
They could break it into three seasons if they wanted to,
because the story of the second game is so much bigger than the first.
They're basically doing for the Last of us what they did for House of the Dragon
in George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones universe.
House of the Dragon is meant to be
just the story of the Targaryen family taken from his Fire and Blood book.
But the events of the first prequel show like The House of the Dragon episodes
I've been doing videos for, is just for the Dance of the Dragons
in all the book material for that only covers a couple of short
novellas with very little actual book material
compared to what they had to adapt for the original Game of Thrones episodes
with the main a Song of Ice and Fire novels.
So what they've been doing with House of the Dragon
and what they've also started to do
during the Last of US Season one, is they've greatly expanded on moments
from the original story, so they get way more episodes and seasons out of it.
Really good examples of this during the Last of US
Episode three is meant to primarily be a bill and frank episode based on just
that next part of where the story picks up after episode two in the Games.
Right after Joel and Ellie escaped Boston
during that part of the story in the game, they were just going to Bill's
to find a car that would take them to Joel's brother's settlement in Wyoming
so we could check and see if he was okay, because Tommy used to be a firefly.
Joe also thought that he could help Ellie find the rest of the fireflies
who theoretically be able to use her to create a vaccine for the fungus.
There were a couple events during that part of the game,
but all in all, in the game, the encounter with Bill doesn't really last that long,
and it's mostly just a short series of missions
going around collecting parts for an old car bills
to try and get it to start so they can continue their quest
in all of their scenes with Bill are very brief in comparison,
but on the show, no spoilers because of me posting this video.
The episode hasn't aired yet, but on the show
what they did is make a bunch of changes and had a whole series of flashbacks
in episode three to explain Bill and Frank's backstory
that covers most of the episode.
In the actual episode is extra long.
Normal episodes are around 45 minutes, like episode two was a little bit shorter,
even though it was meant to be a relatively normal length.
People are just expecting super long episodes all over the place now.
Episode three is a full hundred and 15 minutes more like episode one,
like a short movie.
They also changed a bunch of Bill and Frank's backstory for the episode too,
in the things that happened to them in the way that Bill interacts with Jill.
But it is a massive improvement to what the story from the original game was.
The bigger, expanded, slightly different version they did on the show was amazing.
Estere And for anyone who has seen the story of the second game, Last of US
two or even just seeing some of the game,
this bodes extremely well for future seasons.
While everyone loves the story of the first game, we're seeing that play
out over season one. It's an amazing game.
They actually say after the first couple
of episodes, sales of that first game spiked big time.
The last of us to game was extra really controversial in comparison.
People either loved it or they hated it, and people who hated it really hated it.
It was extremely polarizing.
But here's why.
All the changes they're making during season
one make me way more hyped for season two and beyond.
Because if they can make
the original story of the first game so much better with all their changes
and expansions on certain characters, they can do the same thing for season two.
Without getting into spoilers.
There's a moment during the Last of US two about 30% of the way through the game.
It's a huge WTF moment and one of the best places for them to end
season two, depending on how fast they want to blow through the story
so they can get even more than two seasons out of the second game if they want to.
The entire story of that second game is way, way longer than the first one,
which is why it's so easy for them to break into pieces.
A lot of the themes are the same as season one, like Neil Druckmann
talks about The Last of US three.
Like as long as the same themes continue to
and we can find a good story, we will make the last of us. Three.
It continues to be about people trying to survive, find redemption,
forgiveness and love amidst the fungus, the apocalypse.
There is a five year time jump between the end of season one
and what will probably be their starting point in season two.
In the young actress playing La Bella Ramsay,
she was on the original Game of Thrones series with Pedro Pascal, too.
They even talked about it recently, I assume,
from the Game of Thrones world, which you bring to The Last of US.
I really loved my robe.
I did say this.
Why is it clothing telling you? What about you?
I liked my armor from season eight.
Yeah, They didn't actually share any scenes together
because she played the little Bear.
Lyanna Mormont in Pedro Pascal played Oberyn.
Martell in his character was only in season four and never visited
the North, so the characters never had any reason to have scenes together.
But Ellie is meant to be about
14 during the events of season one, and she'd be 19 when season two picks up.
Unless they move the timeline a little bit and I'm not expecting them to do that.
They did add a couple of extra flashbacks during episode one one to the 1960s
at the beginning with the scientists talking about the potential
for the cordyceps fungus to become a threat.
Then another much bigger version of Joel's backstory to explain
how everything happened, how he got to Boston
so they might do something
similar at the beginning of season two with them or with other characters.
A five year time jump leaves a lot for them to cover.
But in real life, Bella Ramsay is 19 right now.
They filmed season one last year, so she would only been 18
when all these scenes were happening.
Even though she looks like a little girl,
she has this very petite, childlike look about her.
It's way easier for them
to use some minor makeup effects to make her look like an older teenager.
They've been using her costumes
and makeup to each her down just a little bit for season one.
She already looks kind of like a little girl, so it's not that hard.
This was Neil Druckmann and Naughty Dogs playing for Ellie in the video games, too.
She was voiced by Ashley Johnson,
who voices a lot of very young, very petite characters.
But her actual physical character model was based on Ellen Page,
now called Elliot Page.
But that was more than ten years ago when they made that first game.
And at the time Ellen Page had a very childlike appearance.
The funny thing is they didn't admit this was the case, that they based Ellie
on her until a few years ago.
Like a long time went by before they were public about it.
Like, Oh yeah, that was meant to be Ellen Page.
But when the game was actually released, fans noticed pretty quickly,
like, Oh, Ellie looks a lot like Ellen Page.
If they ever make The Last of US series, she should be played by Ellen Page.
The reason why she's not Ellie on the show right now is because it took so long
for them to actually make the show
that she's now 35 years old and she is Elliot Page.
This the real big thing about the Last of US season two Right now,
fans are convinced that they discovered HBO is casting Abby from the games
and it's going to be played by actress Shannon Barry.
Neil Druckman recently followed her on Instagram.
Craig Mazin, the showrunner, hasn't yet, but he barely follows anyone in.
The actress just followed Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Neil Druckman
and the official Last of US account on her Instagram.
If you remember, actors do dumb stuff like this on social media all the time.
Inadvertently revealing casting information.
Jamie Fox famously did it for Spider-Man No Way Home
the year before the movie came out, when we were all still guessing
that Andrew Garfield, Tobey Maguire in the Sinister
Six characters from their movies were coming back.
Jamie Foxx's casting was announced publicly,
but they didn't say who he was playing in at the time.
The trades dropped the news, he posted a couple Spider-Verse fan
art pictures on his Instagram with all three Spiderman in Electro.
So everyone was like, This feels like confirmation
that Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield are definitely coming back.
And it had been a rumor up to that point.
He quickly deleted the Instagram post and then joked about it during press
for the movie. Like, Yeah, I definitely gave that away.
So fans are just convinced that something is going on with the Last of US.
Season two.
In Abbi's casting, she's a very important character during season two,
without getting into spoiler territory in her storyline,
how she gets involved with the main characters,
it would be one of the key places for the show to make some changes
from the original game story and expand on it greatly.
Lots of room for improvement with Abby's storyline right now
based on when they start filming the last of US season two,
they wouldn't be able to release it until the end of next year or early 2025.
It takes them a little over a year to turn a season around now,
and it's the same problem that they have with House of the Dragon.
House of the Dragon Season two just started pre-production.
They're going to be filming for most of this year.
They won't be releasing it until summer of next year.
We're still in the middle of the Last of US
Season one episodes right now, so I'll be doing my regular episode videos
for that every week.
But after the finale does air, I will continue to do season two videos.
As we get more details and footage
just like I've been doing for House of the Dragon Season two.
I've already done a bunch of House of the Dragon Season
two video, so I'll put links for those in the description below.
And at the end of this, HBO is usually pretty good about releasing
teasers and trailers for all the stuff, and we get a lot of footage from the set
when they're filming My For Last of US Episode three video
will post Sunday after they release it in my Last of US episode four Trailer video.
We'll post after that.
Be sure to watch the episode as soon as it drops.
It is going to be awesome.
Everyone post all your theories about season two in the comments.
If you have any big questions or anything you want me to address in future videos,
everyone click here for my Last of US Episode three Video Update the link
As soon as I post that
and click here for my House of the Dragon Season two Teaser Trailer Video.
Thank you so much for watching.