Stay away from the creator participating in the United States, Neil Drogman, moves away from the offer to focus on future games

Neil Drukman, head of the PlayStation Studio Naughty Dog team and co -author of The last of us, Stay away from the HBO view based on the 2013 game in 2020 to focus his work on the upcoming Naughty Dog game. On Instagram, the studio published the following statement from Druckmann:

“I made a difficult decision to stay away from my participation in Another of us On HBO. With the completion of work in the second season and before any meaningful work began in the third season, it is now the right time for me to transfer my full focus to Naughty Dog and its future projects, including writing and directing our exciting next game, Between the galaxies: the Prophet of hereticAlong with my responsibilities as the studio head and head of creativity. “

He went on to thank Craig Mazin (on the left in the image above) in addition to the staff and crew that he worked with in the first two seasons and called on the exhibition “highlighting a profession”, the credit for DroCan as an executive producer and participant in the exhibition and directed him in one episode in each of the two seasons to contribute well in writing many other things. The largest part of the same show was written by Mazin.

Angler It was first published Druckmann statement shortly before its official launch by Naughty Dog.

Shortly after the release of Drotman’s statement, Another of us, the second part Participant writer Haley Gross (who also co -wrote multiple episodes in the second season of the show) announced that she will not also make HBO air conditioning.

“With great card and consideration, i’ve decided to take a steps back from my day-to-day work on hbo’s Special this Experience Has Been. be

Finally, Mazen himself shared a statement Posted in diverse:

“It was a creative dream to work with Nile and bring an air conditioner for his wonderful life on HBO. I couldn’t ask for a more generous creative partner. As a real admirer of Naughty Dog and Neil in video games, I am very excited to play his next game. Whoever is the second part of us, and we are grateful to millions of people all over the world.”

This comes after a somewhat rock reception Another of us The second season. The challenge of adapting the story of the second video game led to some decisions that did not go well with each of the games lovers as well as those who were new in the world through the show. Perhaps not surprisingly, there was also a huge amount of Vitriol via the Internet towards Druckmann and Mazin for some of the changes he made to adapt the game to a TV series.

On my partI thought that the second season was good, as excellent acting continued, but the problems that are going in a pace are partly due to the fact that they are only seven episodes. But I can also agree to the presence of a number of fair criticisms to do on how to draw the offer – it is likely to be closely adhering to the timeline of the game, and the end left things in the air to what should be a frustrating degree for people who do not know the game of playing games.

However, Druckmann participated in writing and directing one of the best episodes in the entire series (“The Price”) and did a strong job behind the camera in the first season “the injured” as well. Not to mention the fact that he knows these characters better than anyone alive – it is reasonable to wonder how things will change without affecting the foot. On the other hand, this change may restore the focus of the creative show team and helps to correct the parts of the second season as things did not descend as the fans were hoping. It is too early to know that, but it is useful to see if Mazin brings anyone else to support him – and if he does, if this person has experienced with the game or focuses only on the world of TV. Someone may have a distance from how to tell the story in games is the right choice to help the show stand alone.

Regardless of what is happening, it will take some time before we discover how all this escalates – Druckmann said, there is no “meaningful work” in the third season so far, so we may have to wait until 2027 to find out how these changes affect the offer.

Update, 2 July 2025, 2:45 pm East time: He added data from Haley Gross and Crigig Mazin.