The Last of Us Director Neil Druckmann Wants Naughty Dog's New Game Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet to Make You Feel 'Really Lost and Confused'

The Last of Us manager Neil Druckmann has shared much details astir Naughty Dog's upcoming game, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet.

In an interrogation with Alex Garland, the writer of zombie movie 28 Days Later, Druckmann talked candidly astir the improvement process, confirming Intergalactic has been successful the works for 4 years.

"I gag astir this with the team. We made a game, The Last of Us 2, we made definite originative decisions that got america a batch of hate. A batch of radical emotion it, but a batch of radical hatred that game," Druckmann said, to which Garland joked: "Who gives a shit?"

"Exactly," Druckmann added. "But the gag is like, you cognize what, let's bash thing that radical won't attraction arsenic overmuch astir — let's marque a crippled astir religion and religion."

Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, which stars Jordan A. Mun arsenic Tati Gabrielle, takes spot successful an alternate humanities timeline and features a "pretty salient religion," too, which has "changed and bastardized and evolved" implicit the years.

Jordan volition person to usage each her skills and wits if she hopes to beryllium the archetypal idiosyncratic successful centuries to permission its orbit.

"This full religion takes spot connected this 1 planet, and past astatine 1 point, each connection stops," Druckmann teased. "And you're playing a bounty huntsman that's chasing her bounty, and she clang lands connected this planet.

"So galore of the erstwhile games we've done, there's always, like, an state with you," helium said. "I truly privation you to beryllium mislaid successful a spot that you're truly confused astir what happened here, who are the radical here, what was their history. And successful bid to get disconnected this satellite — again, nary 1 has been heard from this satellite for 600 years oregon truthful — if you ever person hoped to person a accidental to get off, you person to fig retired what happened here."

Last week, The Last of Us Season 2 showrunners Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin confirmed “spores are back” pursuing their omission from Season 1.

The latest trailer for the upcoming HBO amusement teased the instauration of spores aft they were near retired of Season 1. Speaking astatine SXSW 2025, Druckmann said determination is "an escalation of numbers and types of infected, but also, arsenic you spot successful the trailer, an escalation of the vector of however this happening spreads."

"Season 1, we had this caller happening that wasn’t successful the crippled of these tendrils that spread, and that was 1 form," helium explained. "And past 1 changeable you spot successful this trailer, determination are things successful the air."

In different The Last of Us Season 2 news, histrion Kaitlyn Dever discussed playing Abby, admitting she finds it hard to halt herself from looking astatine the absorption connected the internet.

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