‘Best TV show ever’ set to end way earlier than fans expect-Pierra Willix-Entertainment – Metro

The Last of Us might not run for as long as fans expected (Picture: PictureLux/ The Hollywood Archive/ Alamy Stock Photo)

The co-creator of The Last of Us has revealed the blockbuster series could end after just a few seasons.

Based on the video game franchise of the same name, the TV show was created by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann.

Set 20 years into a pandemic caused by a mass fungal infection that causes its host to transform into zombie-like creatures, its spread has caused the collapse of society.

The show follows Joel (Pedro Pascal), a smuggler tasked with escorting immune teenager Ellie (Bella Ramsey) across a post-apocalyptic United States.

Premiering in 2023, the first season launched to crucial acclaim and was nominated for a whopping 24 Emmys, winning eight.

It also averaged almost 32 million viewers per episode by May and became HBO’s most watched debut season.

The blockbuster series starring Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey returns to screens this month (Picture: Max)

This month the second season will be released, with a third also already in development.

However, Mazin has now said there’s a chance the series won’t be a long-running one.

In a recent interview Druckmann, who helped develop the video game, told fans ‘don’t bet on there being more of Last of Us’ when asked if there could ever be a third game.

Now Mazin has confirmed they have no plans to extend the series if there’s no source material from the game to work off.

‘I am not going to go past the game,’ he told The Hollywood Reporter.

Co-creator Craig Mazin said they are ‘not going past the game’ (Picture: Monica Schipper/ WireImage)

‘I’ll just say that flat out. So, if people are thinking, “Oh, these guys are planning the old cash grab thing…”’

‘I’m basically setting a decade of my rapidly dwindling life on fire to tell this story. The show is so hard to make. It has to have an end. So, I’m not going to go past.

‘Who knows me, there might be a Dunk and Egg The Last of Us show that happens that somebody does. But for me, the only question is: Is it going to be one more season or will it require two more? If this can happen all in one more season, great. If we feel like it makes sense to break it into two, then we will do that.’

His comments come after Mazin told Entertainment Weekly in February that it was ‘pretty likely that our story will extend past a season 3’.

‘How far past? I can’t say. And that’s not to say that there are not other stories that could be told, but this story is the one that Neil and I are telling.’

However the second video game is set to span several seasons (Picture: Christopher Polk/ Variety via Getty Images)

However, the TV adaptation of The Last of Us: Part II game is set to stretch out over several seasons, with Mazin telling Deadline last year a fourth season ‘may be required’

Fans don’t have long to be able to dive into the next season.

Set five years after the events of the first, it’s been teased of the upcoming episodes: ‘After five years of peace following the events of the first season, Joel and Ellie’s collective past catches up to them, drawing them into conflict with each other and a world even more dangerous and unpredictable than the one they left behind.’

The creators have also said they are ‘high-calorie, dense episodes that pack quite a wallop’, assuring viewers they would ‘not be bored’.

The Last of Us season 2 is set to premiere on Monday April 14 on Sky and NOW.

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