Summary
- The Last of Us season 2 will faithfully cover events from the game, with a new teaser exciting fans.
- A fan-made trailer for The Last of Us season 2 has gained popularity online by recreating scenes using in-game footage.
- The TV series will make some changes, such as new character interactions. Fans anticipate a balance of faithfulness & creative liberties.
The recent teaser trailer for The Last of Us season 2 has audiences excited about the upcoming video game series. One fan has demonstrated how the upcoming season continues to be very faithful to its source material by recreating HBO's new trailer using footage exclusively from The Last of Us Part 2.
The Last of Us season 2 will cover the events of the second game in the franchise, The Last of Us Part 2, and will see things pick up with Joel and Ellie five years after the season 1 finale. The first season of the HBO TV series was praised for its faithfulness to its source material, which saw many iconic moments from the video game recreated one-for-one in live-action. The Last of Us Part 2 is a much bigger game in terms of size and scope and many fans are eager to see how this will translate to the TV series. Audiences received a glimpse of how the new season will adapt the game when HBO released the first teaser trailer for season 2 of the show during the most recent The Last of Us Day on September 26.
A fan-made trailer for The Last of Us season 2 by Rage Tributes on YouTube has been gaining traction online with over 100K views at the time of writing. The video recreates the scenes included in HBO's The Last of Us season 2 teaser using scenes from within The Last of Us Part 2. The trailer is a reminder of just how closely the TV series is seemingly sticking to the story of The Last of Us Part 2, with most of the scenes in the teaser directly paralleled by those in the game.
That being said, it is clear The Last of Us season 2 will be making some changes, as a few of the snippets in the HBO trailer don't have a direct video game counterpart. One notable difference is the opening of the trailer, which sees Joel (Pedro Pascal) discussing his sins with Catherine O'Hara's mysterious new character in a voice-over that spans the length of the teaser. For the fan-made trailer, this voice-over instead comes from a conversation mid-way through the game where Ellie confronts Joel about what happened at the Salt Lake City hospital. The fan trailer also includes a few scenes from the game that aren't included in the season 2 trailer, such as the presence of characters like Yara and Lev, who haven't been cast in the TV series yet.
One of the successes of The Last of Us' first season was how faithfully the TV show could recreate moments from the game in live-action. However, The Last of Us was praised equally for the times it took creative liberties, which resulted in some of the best moments in the series, like the expansion of Bill and Frank's relationship in the show. It seems that striking a balance between these two paths is the ideal place for The Last of Us TV series to sit, and if this fan-made trailer highlights anything, it's that season 2 of the show will continue to do that.
The Last of Us season 2 is expected to be released on HBO in 2025.
The Last of Us
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- January 15, 2023
Based on Naughty Dog's popular PlayStation game, HBO's The Last of Us takes place decades after a fungal infection eradicated most of humanity. When a teenage girl named Ellie is found to be immune to the disease, Joel agrees to smuggle her across the United States.
- Network
- HBO
- Main Genre
- Horror
