{"id":88881,"date":"2026-09-03T15:32:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T19:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88881"},"modified":"2026-09-03T16:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T20:38:09","slug":"the-last-of-us-season-3-did-not-include-naughty-dogs-involvement-for-creative-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88881","title":{"rendered":"The Last of Us Season 3 Did Not Include Naughty Dog\u2019s Involvement For Creative Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Writer-director Neil Druckmann dropped out of HBO’s The Last of Us TV show to focus on Naughty Dog’s gaming output, including Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet. In a new interview, he said Season 3–which, again, he had no direct involvement in, will “wrap up” the series. He also revealed that, unlike Seasons 1 and 2, Naughty Dog “did not have a creative role in the direction” of Season 3.<\/p>\n

Druckmann said this to The Washington Post<\/a>, confirming, “I wasn’t involved in shaping this season’s creative direction,” nor was Naughty Dog involved. “So I can’t personally speak to how production is progressing,” he said.<\/p>\n

The Last of Us ending after Season 3 would be no surprise, as HBO management said that would likely happen<\/a>. Druckmann was very closely involved in Seasons 1 and 2; he co-wrote some of the episodes and directed two. <\/p>\n

Druckmann went on to say that Naughty Dog remains “the steward of this IP” and even though the HBO show might be coming to an end, he teased, “We’re not done with The Last of Us.”<\/p>\n

He went on to say, “There’s a couple projects in the works that, when the time is right, I’m very excited to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Writer-director Neil Druckmann dropped out of HBO’s The Last of Us TV show to focus on Naughty Dog’s gaming output, including Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet. In a new interview, he said Season 3–which, again, he had no direct involvement in, will “wrap up” the series. He also revealed that, unlike Seasons 1 and 2, Naughty…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":88883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88881"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88884,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88881\/revisions\/88884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}