The Last of Us: We now know that the series will not end up like the game
Episode 6 of season 2 includes cult scenes from video game The Last of Us: Part II, including a particularly important sequence of the title of the Playstation.
Surprise in season 2 of The Last of Us this week. Episode 6 of season 2 contains a scene that the players did not think soon in the series …
Attention spoilers!
Indeed, “The Price” has a particularly precious sequence, with Ellie and Joel. This is the last conversation between the two, which serves as an epilogue to video game And which acts as an emotional reward for the player. A large poignant flashback in which Joel is explained, asks for forgiveness and Ellie accepts. In the series, this sequence will not be the end scene. She arrives NOW. And Neil Druckmanncreator of the game and director of the episode, explains why in Variety:
“When we made the game, I knew that this scene had to exist. But I did not yet know where to place it. It was the same for all flashbacks: we moved them again and again, until late in production.” But after a discussion with Craig Mazin (Co-showrunner), Druckmann understood the difference with a TV series cut in seasons, in the long term: “This is the first time that I have really thought about the gap between the seasons. Writing is a matter of promises and feedback. We install things that have to pay later. But there, waiting for years-perhaps season 3, even 4-to settle this intimate truth around Ellie, which she knows or does not know … It was too long. Craig convinced me without too much badly.
The director confirms in the process that this choice will necessarily have an impact on the continuation. Yes, in fact, this will lead to a modification of the end of the series compared to the game: “That’s right”Confirm Neil Druckmann With the lips, before returning to another strong sequence of this episode 6, directly from the games.
Before getting confused with Ellie, Joel offers him a magnificent birthday present: the visit of a history and nature science museum, which ends with a small kiff in a real space capsule of the Apollo program. A great moment that upset the players and that will move the spectators. Neil Druckmann Also was turned upside down by the recreation of the moment in real life: “”I have not yet found the words to describe what it did to me. It was unreal. From the first time I entered the set of the series, I was in Joel’s house with Hallie (co-series of the game and the episode). We looked at the dining room and we said to ourselves: ‘Look, that’s where Maria speaks to Ellie and Dina’. It was exactly the same. “
And the day of filming at the museum, the director has brings two colleagues from Naughty Dog. We went into the star corridor, we arrived at the space capsule … and they had tears in the eyes. This place that we had spent years refined in pixels on a flat screen, one could now enter it, sit down, press the buttons. The seats grine. Everything was real. It was like walking In The game. The production of the series treated the game with such a reverence … It literally put us in tears. “
