Neil Druckmann

... or- original creator of Last of Us.

Neil Druckmann, Bruce Straley.

Yeah, Neil Druckmann.

Yeah, N- uh, Neil Druckmann, where, where he left the set after season two because-

Mm

... you know, they wanted to get, uh, Craig, uh, Craig Mazin wanted to take it in a different direction, but Neil was just like, "Oh, I want this." I'm not saying Craig didn't respect the, the franchise.

A lot of most game studios, or maybe not most, but a lot of game studios, a lot of big budget games have a single director and they're responsible for setting the vision.

Your Neil Druckmann's, your Cory Barla's, your Hideo Kojima's.

Rockstar has never really had that.

They've had the Housers, who are the co-founders of the studio, who have always been creatively involved.

The reason...

Rockstar has this mystique because they don't have...

Like, the equivalent of a Neil Druckmann who does a lot of press and is the face of the studio and is on social media.

Like, none of their top people are on social media.

So I hope that if we can keep them plugged into this, we keep them involved throughout the process as a writer comes on, as a director comes on, then we will get the best product possible because usually when these studios do have as much creative involvement as possible, I mean, there's a reason that season one of The Last of Us was so good.

Neil Druckmann was plugged right into that.

And I think that... say we will about the Mario movies like those do have a lot of Nintendo involvement so there's a reason that like they get some of the Nintendo magic in there I think this is going to feel like a cyberpunk game just because CD Projekt Red is at the forefront and they're great storytellers over there so I have a feeling that we will get a great story out of this but enough talking about adapting games to movies let's talk about adapting movies to games Tom you have a little bit of Star Wars video game news coming up here

yeah and this comes from the games business by bespin bulletin and uh this is kind of some of lucasville games um talking about like what they're wanting to do with star wars uh as a medium in in video games so um yeah i'll read here in a new interview with the games business lucasfilm games uh douglas riley actually gave some insight into how the licensor handles the early days of a new star wars video game he also reveals that they've become more open to hula And here's the full quote from Riley.

Like, we didn't even care." Like, "No, we had always planned to do this," or whatever it may be.

But to me, it felt very much like this reaction of, "We are proud." And Neil Druckmann, the director of the game, or the co-director of the first one and then the director of the second one, has said, like, "We are proud of the characters we feature in this.

We are proud of the game that we made." And then, like, I think it's telling that when the TV series kind of moved away from some of those things they did, um, Druckmann left the show.

Hmm.

So The Last of Us video game creators just quit their own TV show.

Neil Druckmann and Halley Gross, the co-writers behind the blockbuster video game, The Last of Us Part II, have abruptly exited HBO's TV adaptation of their own creation, leaving showrunner Greg Mazin flying solo for Season 3.

The departure comes after Season 2 deviated significantly from the source material and saw declining viewership.

Druckmann wasn't just a writer for hire, he created the original The Last of Us universe, and his involvement was crucial for maintaining credibility with the game's devoted fan base.

That the creators were interested in creating something that, that was, that didn't deviate from their original idea and stuck with the program.

So I bet you that's what's going to happen.

And I bet that, uh, that if it's not the last season, season four, if they somehow survive the season four, they'll bring back Hallie Gross and Neil Druckmann.

All right.