THE LAST OF US SERIES. As the event series The Last of Us ends its broadcast on Prime Video with its episode 9, viewers are wondering if a season is planned and if so when they will be able to discover it.
[Mis à jour le 13 mars 2023 à 10h07] The series The Last of Us completed the broadcast of its first season on Monday March 13, 2023 on HBO in the United States and on Prime Video in France. This first season made up of 9 episodes allowed viewers to discover the post-apocalyptic universe of the game The Last of Us created by Naughty Dog on Playstation 3 in 2013. Welcomed very good audience figures, the series created the event at the start of 2023 and was quickly renewed for a second season by HBO. The Last of Us season 2 is coming, but when? In an interview with Collider, Pedro Pascal explained that it was not impossible for the filming of season 2 to begin by the end of 2023, which would leave the door open for a broadcast at the end of 2024. However, nothing is less certain and this kind of serial productions, like House of the Dragon, take a lot of time so that we could rather expect to discover season 2 of The Last of Us rather current 2025.
How to watch The Last of Us series streaming in France? HBO’s new event series is only available for streaming in France. After the signing of an agreement between Prime Video and Warner, it is on Amazon’s streaming platform that the series is available on the internet. A new episode is broadcast every Monday simultaneously with the American broadcast at 3 am. The Last of Us series streams at no extra cost to Prime Video subscribers. As a reminder, the annual subscription to Prime costs €69.90 and €6.99 in its monthly format.
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On January 27, 2023, after airing the first two episodes of The Last of Us, HBO announced that it was renewing its new event series for a second season. The announcement came as no surprise given that the series had signed the second best start for a new HBO production since 2010. In addition, the series had also gathered more in the second week than for its launch, a reassuring data on the very positive word-of-mouth around The Last of Us. Season 1 adapted the entirety of Naughty Dog’s first game. Season 2 should therefore begin to adapt the second game.
The adaptation of The Last of Us is one of the ambitious future projects of the HBO channel in the United States. The cast of the Joel/Ellie duo, main characters of The Last of Us video games, is official and consists of Pedro Pascal on one side and Bella Ramsey on the other. Known in particular for the role of Oberyn Martell in Game of Thrones and the Mandalorian in the Star Wars series from Disney+ The Mandalorian, Pedro Pascal will play the role of Joel in the series The Last of Us. He will be accompanied in the role of Ellie by Bella Ramsey best known for her portrayal of Lyanna Mormont in the Game of Thrones series.
The Last of Us is a diptych of video games developed by Naughty Dog exclusively for Sony Playstation consoles. Twenty years after the explosion of a pandemic, we embody Joel, a seasoned survivor marked by heavy trauma, who is entrusted with an important mission: to escort a young woman, Ellie, out of a quarantine zone. and cross the United States to hope to find a cure. Together, they will have to rely on each other to survive in a world where humans and infected represent constant dangers.
The Last of Us series is to be broadcast on the American cable channel HBO. Craig Mazin, creator and writer of the Chernobyl series, and Neil Druckmann, creative director and co-writer of The Last of Us games, will serve as executive producers and writers for the series. On the production side, HBO has hired Russian filmmaker Kantemir Balagov to shoot the pilot episode of the series. His second feature, Une Grande Fille, won the Best Director Award in the Un Certain Regard category at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. For now, the series The Last of Us does not yet have a release date. broadcast on HBO.