The composer for HBO's wildly popular The Last of Us TV series has confirmed there will be "at least two more seasons," strongly hinting that a fourth season is in development.
"There will definitely be at least two more seasons, no doubt about it," Jake Staley stated during an interview on The Last of Us: Savage Starlight podcast. "At minimum. That's all I'm going to say for now."
This news isn't entirely unexpected. Just last month, showrunner Craig Mazin hinted that a fourth season would be essentially necessary for the show. He explained that wrapping up the story from the two Naughty Dog video games in just Season 3 "would take forever." While there's a "good chance" Season 3 will be longer than Season 2, Mazin concluded that "there's simply no way to finish this narrative in a third season."
HBO has celebrated the success of The Last of Us Season 2, noting a surge in viewership has increased the show's global audience to over 90 million since Season 1 concluded. However, they attributed lower numbers for the Season 2 finale to the Memorial Day holiday weekend. Mazin and Neil Druckmann also recently shared a small secret: they don't yet know "how much, or perhaps how little," some favorite characters will appear in future seasons.
Over the weekend, the HBO series' creative team visited IGN Live to analyze key moments from the game adaptation and detail the process behind creating scenes like Joel's death, the horde attack, the planetarium sequence, and others.
