The TV adaptation of Naughty Canine’s The Final of Us on HBO is an enormous hit, however may the developer’s subsequent recreation, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, leap to TV or the massive display screen?
It is too quickly say, however Hollywood studios are already pitching Naughty Canine, Neil Druckmann stated. Talking to Variety, Druckmann stated, “We have already had studios method us” about Intergalactic–based on pleasure across the trailer alone. “Simply having seen the trailer; they do not know a lot in regards to the recreation,” Druckmann stated of those pitches from unspecified firms.
Given the success of The Final of Us TV collection at HBO, it is smart that studios would come knocking and attempt to lock up an adaptation of Naughty Canine’s subsequent challenge. For his half, Druckmann stated, “I need to ensure we do not put the cart in entrance of the horse.” He stated Naughty Canine wants to make sure Intergalactic turns right into a “implausible online game” earlier than any transmedia alternatives are thought-about.
Additionally, it must be the “proper partnership,” he stated. If these situations might be set, Druckmann stated it “can be nice” to see Intergalactic discover a new viewers for TV or movie.
“There’s plenty of concepts of what we may do with Intergalactic, and in some methods it’s simpler to increase that as a result of it is simply how that story is structured in that universe,” he stated. “So there’s some fascinating conversations occurring about potential initiatives that would come down sooner or later, however our precedence proper now could be to make Intergalactic the following large, implausible Naughty Canine recreation.”
As for the sport Intergalactic, Druckmann stated, “We’re within the thick of it. We’re making it, we’re taking part in it. We’re firing on all cylinders.”
“It is essentially the most formidable recreation we have ever made. It is essentially the most expansive recreation we have ever made, possibly the most costly, by the point we end it,” Druckmann stated.
HBO’s The Final of Us collection returns in 2027 for its third and probably last season. Season 2 simply received a Artistic Arts Emmy award, and the present is nominated for a lot of extra within the upcoming essential Emmy awards present on September 14.