The broadcast of season 1 of
The Last of Us
concluded on March 13, 2023 with the posting of the ninth and final episode on Amazon Prime Video.
The adaptation of the successful video game launched in 2013 on Playstation delighted fans both with its quality and its respect for the world of the original story.
Without delay, HBO signed a second season which should be inspired by the sequel to the creation of Naughty Dog studios released in June 2020 on console and entitled
The Last of us Part II
.
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“Sometimes there will be radical changes, sometimes it will be almost the same. This will be the season that Neil Druckmann and I want to do and we are doing it with Bella Ramsey
,” declared co-creator Craig Mazin to our colleagues at Le
Parisien / Today in France
.
In the second installment of the video game, the story takes place five years later.
After their long journey from Boston to Salt Lake City, Ellie (Bella Ramsey) and Joel (Pedro Pascal) settle in a self-sufficient walled city in Jackson, Wyoming.
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Having become a 19-year-old teenager, the character played by the British actress forms a romantic relationship with Dina and a solid friendship with Jesse.
His daily life, punctuated by rounds around the fortified city to identify and ward off the infected and other rebels, will be turned upside down by the assassination of Joel by Abby Anderson.
Eager for revenge, Ellie goes in search of this woman, a member of the Washington Liberation Front (WLF) based in Seattle and former member of the Fireflies community.
And if Abby Anderson attacked Joel, it was to take revenge for the death of her father Jerry Anderson.
At the end of season 1, this surgeon was preparing to sacrifice Ellie, carrying the antidote in her body, to try to make a vaccine against cordyceps, a fungus which has ravaged human life on Earth.
Faced with the dilemma of saving humanity or Ellie's sole life, Joel chose the latter.
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to
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In the cast of season 2,
Pedro Pascal
and
Bella Ramsey
will obviously be back.
The flagship role of Abby Anderson was given to American
Kaitlyn Dever
, seen in the film
Hunted
on Disney+.
Young Mazino
(
Beef
) will play Jesse while
Isabela Merced
(
Transformers: The Last Knight
) will play Dina.
As for actress
Catherine O'Hara
(
Mom, I missed the plane!
), the identity of her character has not been disclosed.
On Friday, four new names were made official to join the Washington Liberation Front camp:
Danny Ramirez
(
Top Gun: Maverick
) and
Spencer Lord
(
Family Law
) will respectively play soldiers Manny Alvarez and Owen Moore while
Ariela Barer
(
Runaways
) will be Mel, a young pregnant doctor.
The latter will be accompanied by her colleague Nora Harris, played by
Tati Gabrielle
, a multi-faceted actress seen in the series
You, Kaleidoscope, Les Nouvelles Aventures de Sabrina
and
Les 100
.
Filming for season 2 of
The Last of Us
is scheduled to begin this spring.