Hollywood can be Embrace video games as it has never done beforeBut it does not make a smash here for the small screen less scary. Take it from Craig Mazin“The last of us“Showrunner and executive producer who told IndieWire that he was” mostly worried “before his award-winning show season 2-return broadcast on Sunday 13 April at 21 at HBO.
“That’s how I wake up,” Mazin said. “That’s how I go to bed. It’s often how I wake up in the middle of the night. Because I feel an obligation to this rather large audience to give them something they love.” Mazin is a big fan himself and has a “last of us” tattoo on the forearm that shows an iconic weapon from the game.
Mazin bent his black-gray switchblade and continued, “Look, we are really happy. We think we have done something good. I think the season is quite amazing, but now it is time to let the child out into the world and see how people take everything in. It is a lot.”
When “The Last of US: Part II” reached gaming consoles in 2020, the Action adventure follower encountered several controversy. Written by Neil Druckmann and Halley GrossThe record -breaking juggerna from Naughty Dog crushed sales record and was named this year’s games by hundreds of organizations. But everything from a large script to homophobic resistance to the queer hero Ellie (played by Bella Ramsey I TV Series) made the title controversial. Mazin still knew he had to do this project.
“I’ve been doing this for a while now, and I think I finally came to a place where it seemed like I was going out of life fast enough when I get older that I want to do things that engage my heart deeply,” he said. “That’s what I have time for now, and I also know enough about myself to know, especially now that I do more of the total filmmaking, directing and editing and ending things like a showrunner, if I should do something, I do it so completely, I throw myself in it so deeply, that it is better that I really love.”
Thanks to his Emmy-winning “Chernobyl”, Mazin was founded as an award-winning HBO-Auteur long before “The Last of Us.” Mazin asked to compare the challenges he met season 1 and season 2 and mentioned the historical miniseries and explained how the extent affected his reproduction of both a real nuclear disaster and fictional zombie apocalypse.
“The challenge is really the challenge I always feel – I felt it when we did” Chernobyl ” – which is,” can we do better? Yes? Let’s make it better. Well, you’re really tired? It doesn’t matter. “You push yourself, you push yourself, you are pushing yourself.”
IndieWire’s Ben Travers reviewed “The Last of Us” season 2It assigns it an “A-” and calls it “an exciting, twisted development of HBO’s formidable survival story.” A multi -time -held revenge Epic that has been haunting players for several years, it is a murderer. But if you ask Mazin what makes the “perfect” revenge arch, he says he doesn’t know.
“Even the stories that I know are about revenge, for example ‘Kill Bill 1’ and ‘2’, it’s not really about revenge,” Mazin said. “In the end, you can see how it is not about revenge. It is about the pain we feel that we were betrayed or the pain we feel because of something that was lost to us or something we did not understand about ourselves or the people we loved or we thought we loved.”
In the end, Mazin said the key to adapting “The Last of US: Part II” was to drill deep into the characters. The writing process helped Mazin rely more on her love for the source material and her instincts as an author. The author/director raised Quentin Tarantino and his iconic martial art duology with Uma Thurman as the bride again to explain her own development.
“I love Quentin Tarantino moviesAnd there are times in Tarantino movies where I think, ‘Oh, it’s strange. It was a strange thing – and yet completely consistent with everything else, “he said.” So that Where Tarantino-Y, even if I go, “Oh, I’m not sure I joined one moment you did there, Quentin, it was still you.”
“If I were to stumble and fall, I stumbled and fell when I loved it,” Mazin said about the decisions he made by “The Last of Us” season 2. “I didn’t stumble and fell because I didn’t understand it, because I didn’t care because I came to it cynically or because I needed money.
“The Last of Us” Season 2 premieres on Sunday 13 April at 21 o’clock at HBO and Max.
