{"id":13870,"date":"2026-09-07T18:04:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T15:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/?p=13870"},"modified":"2026-09-07T18:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T15:08:12","slug":"the-last-of-us-season-3-confirmed-to-have-no-naughty-dog-involvement-but-more-games-are-likely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/the-last-of-us-season-3-confirmed-to-have-no-naughty-dog-involvement-but-more-games-are-likely\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Of Us Season 3 Confirmed To Have No Naughty Dog Involvement \u2013 But More Games Are Likely"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/the-last-of-us-season-3-confirmed-to-have-no-naughty-dog-involvement-but-more-games-are-likely.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<hr class=\"preferredSourceCTA-module-scss-module__sCL6Nq__divider\" \/><span class=\"content-module-scss-module__RI8h6a__content\" data-test=\"content\"><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s somehow been over a year since Season 2 of HBO\u2019s The Last Of Us aired its final episodes, leaving those who haven\u2019t played the games with a big cliffhanger. While the continued story of Ellie and Abby looks set to head our way next year in the show\u2019s third season, fans were taken by surprise when Neil Druckmann announced that he would be stepping back from working on the show to focus on his priorities at Naughty Dog, most notably their new game <em>Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"content-module-scss-module__RI8h6a__content\" data-test=\"content\"><\/p>\n<p>Now, in an interview with <em>The Washington Post<\/em>, Druckmann has confirmed that not only has he stepped back, but Naughty Dog itself is not involved in Season 3. \u201cI wasn&#8217;t involved in shaping this season&#8217;s creative direction, and Naughty Dog did not have a creative role in the direction of this season,\u201d he said. This also includes <em>The Last of Us Part II<\/em> co-writer Hayley Gross, who stepped away from the project alongside Druckmann.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"content-module-scss-module__RI8h6a__content\" data-test=\"content\"><\/p>\n<p>Those who have played the games know the story takes a slightly different direction in its second half. Given how tonally delicate it is, we\u2019re hoping it\u2019s safe in Craig Mazin\u2019s careful hands after he delivered two great seasons alongside his Emmy-winning work on <em>Chernobyl<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"content-module-scss-module__RI8h6a__content\" data-test=\"content\"><\/p>\n<p>The good news is, we probably haven\u2019t seen the last of <em>The Last Of Us<\/em> in the gaming world. After a cancelled online project, it\u2019s all been very quiet on whether players will end up avoiding Clickers again. But Druckmann has confirmed we haven\u2019t seen the last of them. \u201cWe\u2019re not done with <em>The Last Of Us<\/em>,\u201d he stated. \u201cThere&#8217;s a couple projects in the works that, when the time is right, I&#8217;m very excited to talk about.&#8221; What this could be, we don\u2019t know. A Part 3? A spin-off? Who wouldn\u2019t want to see the return of the criminally-underrated \u2018Grounded\u2019 online mode?<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"content-module-scss-module__RI8h6a__content\" data-test=\"content\"><\/p>\n<p>It shouldn\u2019t be too long until we get more <em>The Last Of Us<\/em>, with the third season expected to conclude the television adaptation of the two games, scheduled to arrive in 2027. And if we hear so much as a click about any more game news, you\u2019ll hear from us.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s somehow been over a year since Season 2 of HBO\u2019s The Last Of Us aired its final episodes, leaving those who haven\u2019t played the games with a big cliffhanger. While the continued story of Ellie and Abby looks set to head our way next year in the show\u2019s third season, fans were taken by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-47"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13872,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13870\/revisions\/13872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}