{"id":3309,"date":"2025-07-02T18:44:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T18:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tearsforaudrey.com\/?p=3309"},"modified":"2025-07-03T16:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T16:49:11","slug":"the-last-of-us-co-creator-neil-druckmann-leaves-the-show-ahead-of-season-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tearsforaudrey.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/02\/the-last-of-us-co-creator-neil-druckmann-leaves-the-show-ahead-of-season-3\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;The Last of Us&#039; co-creator Neil Druckmann leaves the show ahead of Season 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/tearsforaudrey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/the-last-of-us-co-creator-neil-druckmann-leaves-the-show-ahe_t62c.640.jpg\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" \/>Druckmann will instead focus on Naughty Dog&#x27;s next game.<\/p>\n<p>In a major shakeup, <i><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/the-last-of-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Last of Us<\/a><\/i><i> <\/i>co-creator Neil Druckmann has stepped away from the series and will not be involved in the upcoming third season.<\/p>\n<p>Druckmann, who co-created <i>The Last of Us <\/i>alongside showrunner Craig Mazin and wrote and directed several episodes, announced his departure in a \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Druckmann will instead focus on Naughty Dog&#x27;s next game. In a major shakeup, The Last of Us co-creator Neil Druckmann has stepped away from the series and will not be<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tearsforaudrey.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/02\/the-last-of-us-co-creator-neil-druckmann-leaves-the-show-ahead-of-season-3\/\" class=\"readmore\">Continue reading<svg class=\"icon icon-arrow-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"img\"> <use href=\"#icon-arrow-right\" xlink:href=\"#icon-arrow-right\"><\/use> <\/svg><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#039;The Last of Us&#039; co-creator Neil Druckmann leaves the show ahead of Season 3<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tearsforaudrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tearsforaudrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tearsforaudrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tearsforaudrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tearsforaudrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tearsforaudrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3313,"href":"http:\/\/tearsforaudrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309\/revisions\/3313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tearsforaudrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tearsforaudrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tearsforaudrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tearsforaudrey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}