HBO‘s hit live-TV adaptation of The Final Of Us may final round 4 seasons, in keeping with showrunner Craig Mazin.

Chatting with The Hollywood Reporter, Mazin teased that his and The Final Of Us creator Neil Druckmann’s imaginative and prescient for the HBO collection may see it final anyplace between three to 5 seasons, although he thinks “4 looks like a superb quantity”.

“It will possibly find yourself being three or 5. However 4 looks like a superb quantity. Some seasons, due to the story we’re telling, will want fewer episodes and a few will want extra. The most effective information is the viewers needs extra,” Mazin stated.

Even when followers’ demand for extra episodes and seasons of the present stay excessive, Mazin stated that he and Druckmann gained’t give in to the strain of including extra episodes for the sake of it: “We won’t indulge a want for extra merely to make them happier after they hear what number of episodes are introduced. And in the event that they don’t like what number of episodes are in a season as a result of they need extra, nicely, OK. However when all is alleged and accomplished, I feel the knowledge of how we lay it out will hopefully be clear.”

“What’s essential is after they get to the tip of the season, they’re like, ‘That was a superb season’”.

Whereas season one of many HBO adaptation managed to seize everything of 2013’s The Final Of Us recreation, not all of 2020’s The Final Of Us Half II will make it into season two of the present. “I can definitely affirm is that that story doesn’t match into one season,” Mazin stated.

The Final Of Us Half II can be a very tough season to movie, because it’s set 5 years after the occasions of the primary recreation and season. In addition to the time issue, the story is instructed from two views: Ellie (Bella Ramsey), and a brand new antagonist/protagonist Abby, who has but to be solid.

When requested if the position of Abby had already been set, Mazin replied with a easy “perhaps”. Nonetheless, with the ongoing WGA actors and writers strike, all progress on season two of HBO’s The Final Of Us has been halted.

HBO’s The Final Of Us scored rave opinions earlier this yr, with NME‘s Alex Flood scoring it 4 stars. Flood wrote: “Players have been burned earlier than by poorly conceived diversifications of their favorite titles, so that they have been naturally skeptical. However they needn’t have been. The Final Of Us lacks novel concepts, however when it’s this good it will probably get away with it.”