After the events of the end of season 1 of ‘The Last of Us’, everything is set for the next installment in the adaptation of the second video game in the saga, although some things will have to be modified in the story.
The HBO series of “The Last of Us” was almost a carbon copy of the original 2013 PlayStation video game, although a major change had to be made to adapt it to television and the modern era.
This change in early chapters and plot context has not affected the adaptation until now. However, for the second season it causes a key scene of Joel (Pedro Pascal) to have to rethink.
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“The Last of Us” Season 2 will change a key scene of the video game
In “The Last of Us” series, modern civilization is destroyed in 2003 by a parasitic fungus (existing in real life) that turns people into monsters and 20 years go by until Joel meets Ellie (Bella Ramsey).
But in the video game the apocalypse day is 2013 and the story with Elli happens 20 years later, which is 2033. Due to this change in the timeline, there are references from the video game that cannot appear in the series.
“The Last of Us” co-creator Neil Druckmann talked about this in an interview on “Kinda Funny” on March 27, 2023, and explained that a very important scene in the second game will have to be changed.
It’s a very emotional moment where Joel picks up a guitar and sings Ellie the Pearl Jam song ‘Future Days’, which has become almost synonymous with the game and is an important part of the characters’ relationship in the story.
The choice of song and the way Joel and Ellie’s relationship is after the final chapter means a lot for future events, but the problem is that Pearl Jam didn’t release “Future Days” until 2013.
Neil Druckmann admitted that the problem of this timeline is something they need to solve for the second season and for him the most effective would be to change the song to another one that has a similar meaning.
Since the song has become so well known and attached to the second game, the creator even commented that they could look for another song by the Seattle grunge band that was released before 2003 to place it at that time.
As in the series on the day of the apocalypse where the Cordyceps fungus spread around the world happened on September 26, 2003, there are many things that people could never live.
Among the things Joel could no longer watch are “The Matrix Resurrections” (November 2003), “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” (December 2003), “Spider-Man 2” (June 2004 ) and “Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith” (May 2005).
Technology is also something that in 10 years has changed a lot, although “The Last of Us” series has done a good job of shaping the world with everything that existed until 2003.
The second season of “The Last of Us” has not yet started filming, so it is expected to arrive on Max’s platform in late 2024 or 2025.
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