The Last of Us director Neil Druckmann has shared extra particulars about Naughty Dog’s upcoming sport, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet.
In an interview with Alex Garland, the author of zombie film 28 Days Later, Druckmann talked candidly in regards to the improvement course of, confirming Intergalactic has been within the works for 4 years.
“I joke about this with the crew. We made a sport, The Last of Us 2, we made sure inventive choices that acquired us loads of hate. Lots of people adore it, however lots of people hate that sport,” Druckmann mentioned, to which Garland joked: “Who offers a shit?”
“Exactly,” Druckmann added. “But the joke is like, what, let’s do one thing that folks will not care as a lot about — let’s make a sport 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 developed” over time.
Jordan must use all her abilities and wits if she hopes to be the primary particular person in centuries to go away its orbit.
“This entire faith takes place on this one planet, after which at one level, all communication stops,” Druckmann teased. “And you are taking part in a bounty hunter that is chasing her bounty, and he or she crash lands on this planet.
“So lots of the earlier video games we have achieved, there’s at all times, like, an ally with you,” he mentioned. “I really need you to be misplaced in a spot that you simply’re actually confused about what occurred right here, who’re the individuals right here, what was their historical past. And in an effort to get off this planet — once more, nobody has been heard from this planet for 600 years or so — in case you ever have hoped to have an opportunity to get off, it’s a must 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 had been overlooked of Season 1. Speaking at SXSW 2025, Druckmann mentioned there’s “an escalation of numbers and forms 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 sport of those tendrils that unfold, and that was one type,” he defined. “And then 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 taking part in Abby, admitting she finds it arduous to cease herself from wanting on the response on the web.
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