- Former Naughty Dog developer Gabriel Betancourt claims Neil Druckmann told him there are “several” immune people in the last of us
- Betancourt recalls Druckmann saying that “there’s a whole congregation of those types of people” in the gaming world.
- He adds that Druckmann wanted to tell a story “with multiple characters.”
Former Naughty Dog lighting artist Gabriel Betancourt stated the last of us Series creator Neil Druckmann told her that Ellie wasn’t the only immune person in the game world.
If you are familiar with the last of usYou will know that Ellie is immune to the Cordyceps infection that devastated the world. In the game, Joel’s mission is to deliver her to the Fireflies across the United States so the rebel group can use her to create a cure.
However, spoiler alert, Joel discovers that creating a cure means Ellie will die in the process, so he kills all the fireflies and takes her away in an act of love, a controversial decision that also has major repercussions on The last of us part 2.
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It is believed that Joel took away humanity’s only chance at a cure, as Ellie is the only immune person in the world. Or is it her?
According to Betancourt, in a recent interview with Kiwi Talkz, Druckmann told him that there were “several people” in the world who were immune to the infection.
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The developer explained that before leaving the studio in 2019, he had a conversation with Druckmann about keeping Ellie as the only person immune, because otherwise she would decline. the last of us‘end.
Betancourt recalls Druckmann saying that “there is a whole congregation of those kinds of people,” meaning immune people, and he wanted to “tell a more sophisticated story. I want to tell a story with multiple characters and expand it.”
“I felt like the crux of the story was that Ellie was the only person who had the cure,” Betancourt said. “And so protecting her and making sure she got to where she needed to go to save humanity – because without the cure, life has no hope – that’s what created the gravity of that world. That was the context that made the last of us special.”
The concept of additional immune people didn’t end up becoming a plot point in The last of us part 2and it is still unclear whether Druckmann intends to follow through with his comments.
Years have passed since Betancourt’s conversation with the now head of Naughty Dog, so it’s possible that ideas have changed, evolved, or been completely discarded.
while a third the last of us The game has not been announced at this time, Neil Druckmann has apparently teased the future of the PlayStation series, writing on social media about “a few stops left on the road ahead.”
Druckmann has previously discussed the possibility of The last of us part 3 rumors, saying: “The only thing I would say is don’t bet on there being more than ‘the last of us.’ It could be this.” However, the director’s statement contradicted what he had previously said about the potential for there to be “one more chapter in this story.”
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