'The Last Of Us' Star Bella Ramsey Says 'It Will Be A While' Before Fans Get Season 2

Warning: Spoilers for “The Final of Us” under.

“The Final of Us” wrapped up its first season simply over per week in the past, and it may very well be fairly a while earlier than HBO blesses us with a second season, in response to the present’s star Bella Ramsey.

“Will probably be some time,” Ramsey mentioned of Season 2 on “The Jonathan Ross Present” throughout Saturday’s episode, in response to The Impartial. “I believe we’ll most likely shoot on the finish of this yr, starting of subsequent. So it’ll most likely be on the finish of 2024, early 2025.”

Within the post-apocalyptic drama collection based mostly on the 2013 survival recreation, Ramsey performs Ellie, a teenage lady who discovers she’s proof against a mutated Cordyceps fungus that morphs folks into zombie-like “contaminated.” The illness wipes out a lot of the earth’s inhabitants, and Bella finds herself the important thing to restoring humanity.

On the finish of January, HBO introduced that the drama collection had been renewed for a second season amid the present’s large success.

Ramsey’s co-star Pedro Pascal beforehand provided up a imprecise timeline for Season 2, indicating that it might start filming this yr.

“Within the yr 2023? Oh, what season are we in now? We’re moving into spring,” Pascal instructed Collider in February. “Sure, there's a probability. Sure.”

Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) in "The Last of Us."
Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) in "The Final of Us."
Photograph by Liane Hentscher/HBO

Although particulars about Season 2 are nonetheless below wraps, creators have confirmed the forthcoming season will comply with the occasions from “The Final of Us Half II,” the sequel to the online game the dystopian drama is predicated on.

“I don’t assume there’s a lot must fill within the gaps,” Ramsey instructed GQ, including that the brand new season will “almost certainly” comply with the storyline of the video games once more.

“The Final of Us” collection’ co-creator Neil Druckmann ― who additionally co-created the online game ― instructed British GQ that the occasions of Half II will probably be lined by “multiple season.”

Season 1 lately ended after 9 emotional weeks. Sequence co-creator Craig Mazin revealed he and the director, Ali Abbasi, had thought of a unique ending between Joel (Pascal) and Ellie than the one they settled on.

“[Abbasi] had this considered simply taking part in out this barely longer, sadder model the place Ellie says, ‘okay,’ after which she turns and walks away. And Joel takes care of her. We see the 2 of them strolling, not likely collectively however aside, down in the direction of Jackson. It lingers after which fades. There was one thing lovely about it,” Mazin instructed British GQ of the ending they'd contemplated.

Season 1 of “The Final of Us” is streaming on HBO Max.

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