Naughty Dog's next game will be "structured more like a TV show"

Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin speech astir the curse of video crippled adaptations.

In a caller nonfiction with The New Yorker, Naughty Dog’s co-president, Neil Druckmann, and The Last of Us’ HBO bid showrunner, Craig Mazin, sermon the improvement of video games. Particularly, they speech astir however The Last of Us came to beryllium adapted into a TV show, and what’s adjacent for Naughty Dog.

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There’s initially a batch of treatment regarding the curse of video crippled adaptations. Let’s beryllium real, video games adapted for the metallic surface person ne'er done each that well, unless you’re a instrumentality of Sonic the Hedgehog 2. “Hopefully, this volition enactment that video-game curse to bed,” Druckmann said regarding The Last of Us’ TV bid adaptation. Mazin, connected the different hand, suggests with a laughter that, “it’s gonna marque it worse.”

“Sometimes adaptations haven’t worked due to the fact that the root worldly is not beardown enough. Sometimes they haven’t worked due to the fact that the radical making it don’t recognize the root material,” says Druckmann. However, Druckmann thinks the narration betwixt video games and adaptations of them has shifted somewhat, and for the better.

All successful all, Druckmann appears to beryllium of the steadfast content that video games, film, and TV tin each blend together, particularly fixed that assorted manufacture professionals are unfastened to switching betwixt mediums. An illustration being that composer and Oscar-winner, Gustavo Santaolalla, was secured to people The Last of Us.

This past leads Druckmann to speech astir Naughty Dog’s plans for the future. The adjacent task is supposedly “structured much similar a TV show” than thing the workplace has made before, and the co-president has been assembling an full writers’ country for the project.

The Last of Us is acceptable to premiere connected HBO Max connected January 15, 2023. Will you beryllium tuning in, oregon are your eyes much peeled for Naughty Dog’s adjacent project?