Naughty Canine boss Neil Druckmann is stepping away from his artistic involvement in HBO’s The Final of Us present, so he can totally deal with Naughty Canine’s upcoming initiatives.
Druckmann has been intently concerned within the manufacturing of the profitable HBO collection, which stars Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsay.
“I’ve made the troublesome determination to step away from my artistic involvement in The Final of Us on HBO,” Druckmann mentioned in a assertion.
“With work accomplished on Season 2, and earlier than any significant work begins on Season 3, now could be the suitable time for me to transition my full focus to Naughty Canine and its future initiatives, together with writing and directing our thrilling subsequent recreation, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, together with my duties as Studio Head and Head of Artistic.”
He added: “Co-creating the present has been a profession spotlight. It’s been an honor to work alongside Craig Mazin to government produce, direct, and write on the final two seasons. I’m deeply grateful for the considerate strategy and dedication the gifted forged and crew took to adapting The Final of Us Half 1 and the continued adaptation of The Final of Us Half 2.”
Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet was introduced throughout The Sport Awards in 2024. The sport incorporates a sci-fi setting, and its debut trailer features a Porsche spaceship. Its soundtrack is being composed by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
“Intergalactic stars our latest protagonist, Jordan A. Mun, a harmful bounty hunter who finally ends up stranded on Sempiria – a distant planet whose communication with the surface universe went darkish tons of of years in the past,” reads a synopsis for the sport.
Druckmann mentioned final 12 months that quite a few video games, together with “a number of single-player initiatives”, have been in improvement at Naughty Canine, however confused that whereas they gained’t all be The Final of Us titles, they are going to have an identical aim.
“We create experiences which can be steeped in story and character, particularly relationships,” he advised the LA Instances. “The tales have some kind of philosophical core that every part goes to revolve round and feed into.”
