The Last of Us director Neil Druckmann has shared extra particulars about Naughty Dog’s upcoming recreation, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet.
In an interview with Alex Garland, the author of zombie film 28 Days Later, Druckmann talked candidly concerning the growth course of, confirming Intergalactic has been within the works for 4 years.
“I joke about this with the group. We made a recreation, The Last of Us 2, we made sure inventive selections that acquired us rather a lot of hate. Rather a lot of folks adore it, however rather a lot of folks hate that recreation,” Druckmann mentioned, to which Garland joked: “Who provides a shit?”
“Precisely,” Druckmann added. “However the joke is like, you recognize what, let’s do one thing that individuals will not care as a lot about — let’s make a recreation about religion and faith.”
Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, which stars Jordan A. Mun as Tati Gabrielle, takes place in an alternate historic timeline and includes a “fairly outstanding faith,” too, which has “modified and bastardized and advanced” over time.
Jordan may have to use all her expertise and wits if she hopes to be the primary individual in centuries to depart its orbit.
“This complete faith takes place on this one planet, and then at one level, all communication stops,” Druckmann teased. “And also you’re enjoying a bounty hunter that is chasing her bounty, and she crash lands on this planet.
“So many of the earlier video games we have finished, there’s all the time, like, an ally with you,” he mentioned. “I really need you to be misplaced in a spot that you just’re actually confused about what occurred right here, who’re the folks right here, what was their historical past. And so as to get off this planet — once more, nobody has been heard from this planet for 600 years or so — when you ever have hoped to have an opportunity to get off, you might have to work out what occurred right here.”
Last week, The Last of Us Season 2 showrunners Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin confirmed “spores are again” following their omission from Season 1.
The newest trailer for the upcoming HBO present teased the introduction of spores after they have been ignored of Season 1. Talking at SXSW 2025, Druckmann mentioned there may be “an escalation of numbers and varieties of contaminated, but additionally, as you see within the trailer, an escalation of the vector of how this factor spreads.”
“Season 1, we had this new factor that wasn’t within the recreation of these tendrils that unfold, and that was one kind,” he defined. “After which one shot you see on this trailer, there are issues within the air.”
In different The Last of Us Season 2 information, actress Kaitlyn Dever mentioned enjoying Abby, admitting she finds it exhausting to cease herself from wanting on the response on the web.
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