Naughty Dog boss Neil Druckmann is leaving HBO's The Last of Us season 3 to turn his "complete focus" to Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet and the studio's "future projects"

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"Now is the right time for me to transition my complete focus to Naughty Dog and its future projects"

Protagonist Jordan in a screenshot from the reveal trailer for Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet.
(Image credit: Naughty Dog)

Neil Druckmann, the studio head of The Last of Us developer Naughty Dog, has announced he's stepping down on his leadership role in the game's HBO adaptation. Instead, he's pointing his "complete focus" toward Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet and other video game projects.

This leaves Craig Mazin as The Last of Us TV show's sole showrunner. Mazin told GamesRadar+ in April that he hadn't begun writing The Last of Us season 3, suggesting the next season of the show will play out entirely without Druckmann's input.

Dustin Bailey
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Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.

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