Pedro Pascal warns ‘The Last Of Us’ season two is “fucking heartbreaking”
The Last Of Us season two premieres next month and Pedro Pascal has warned fans that this latest chapter is “fucking heartbreaking”.
Season one of The Last Of Us was a faithful adaptation of the hit video game, which sees Joel (Pascal) delivering Ellie (Bella Ramsey) across a post-apocalyptic North America with scientists convinced that she might offer a cure to the zombie outbreak.
Set five years after he decided to murder those same scientists to save Ellie’s life, the full trailer for season two of The Last Of Us was unveiled over the weekend.
“A lot of what’s going on in the season is evolution and change,” the show’s co-creator Craig Mazin said during a special presentation at SXSW. “Ellie is growing up, and she is changing. This town of Jackson is growing up. It is expanding. It’s taking in refugees. And the world outside is changing. It was important to us to always move the ball forward with the infected.”
The trailer reveals a lot of tension between Ellie and Joel, with Ramsey previously telling Screenrant that “some trust issues have definitely developed.They’re in a very different place than we’re used to them being like with each other. You get to know why that is, and that gets explored.”
And in a warning to fans, Pascal said The Last Of Us season two is “fucking heartbreaking” before calling the showrunners “sick people.”
Addressing gamers who think they know what’s going to happen in the next season of The Last Of Us, Mazin said: “I think you probably should expect the unexpected. We won’t always do the things you think we’re going to do.
“Sometimes we do the things you thought we were going to do in a different way, at a different time. All I can say is that if you give us your trust, by the time we get to the end of the season, I think you’ll be happy.”
Last month, HBO boss Francesca Orci said The Last Of Us will probably run for four seasons but original co-creator Neil Druckmann has squashed rumours of a third video game. “I guess the only thing I would say is don’t bet on there being more. This could be it.” The second season premieres April 13.
In other news, Death Stranding 2: On The Beach has confirmed a June release date alongside an epic ten-minute trailer.
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