The second season The last of us He arrives in Max in just a few days. To promote her, realizing the huge expectations that she raises, her entire team around the world visits different places. And one of its creators, Craig MazinArrived in Spain. In Hypertextual, we were able to talk exclusively with him to talk about everything that will happen in new episodes.
Among many other things, we wanted to ask about the strategy of large companies at present in order to expand their best series with various by -products. Something that A Mazin He would like to see with The last of usAlthough he admits that he will not work personally. “I think you could make a whole series about any character,” he begins. To do this, he gives several examples, such as 20 years between the prologue of the 1st season and the moment when Joel And Ellie They know each other. “There are all objects of what happened to Joel And Tommy For these 20 years. This is a great story. I wonder what happened there. I am also interested in fireflies, ”he suggests.
“But I will also like the idea of meeting with completely new people in a completely different place. It is from this, at the beginning of the second episode of the first season, we are in Indonesia. Because the Americans have such a habit of making a series about the end of the world and simply show the United States. I thought what exactly was happening in Spain? ” MazinThis is The last of us Outside of its borders.
“I would like to know, because every culture reacts in the way. I think that there are some cultures where everything would be completely different, but human stories will be the same. Therefore, I would like to see how the rest of the world, in different places, manages to cope with this. For example. The last of us, Madrid“He confirms. Obviously, this is just a dream, but Mazin Thus, it launches a hook to HBO Ventures for its implementation.
Series attached to the real world
One of the keys to the success of the first season The last of us It was his premiere in 2023, just when the world began to leave the pandemia of Covid-19. A tragedy that inevitably connected the history of a series with real life. Now, in the face of a second contribution, however, Craig Mazin He stands for more universal problems.
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“The hook always tries to be honest with the experience that we all have at any time. When we started to make a series, we had no idea what the world would be in two years. When we started talking about The last of usWe had no idea that the pandemic was approaching. But if you write about universal problems and portrait people with honesty, it does not matter, ”creative explains.
“It doesn’t matter what is happening in the world because you will continue to be relevant. Moreover, I think that if today everything is connected with this, it just seems too relevant. And this is far from being, ”he says. Therefore, even in their other projects, directly related to real facts, such as a series ChernobylTo Mazin He is much more interested in what what.
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