{"id":209301,"date":"2025-09-28T03:02:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T03:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2147424"},"modified":"2025-09-28T03:02:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T03:02:34","slug":"the-last-of-us-3-has-a-story-outline-neil-druckmann-hopes-will-one-day-see-the-light-of-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-last-of-us-3-has-a-story-outline-neil-druckmann-hopes-will-one-day-see-the-light-of-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last of Us 3 has a story outline Neil Druckmann hopes will one day see the light of day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/the-last-of-us-3-has-a-story-outline-neil-druckmann-hopes-will-one-day-see-the-light-of-day.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Naughty Dog has penned a story outline for The Last of Us 3, which creative director Neil Druckmann hopes &#8220;one day can see the light of day&#8221; &#8211; but it&#8217;s not in development at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/gb\/podcast\/the-last-of-us-part-ii-with-neil-druckmann-and-halley-gross\/id1518622561?i=1000518892917\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Script Apart podcast<\/a> (thanks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/the-last-of-us-part-3-has-a-plot-but-its-not-being-made-yet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IGN<\/a>), Druckmann said the story outline that exists right now explores what happens after The Last of Us 2.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know how much I want to reveal,&#8221; Druckmann said. &#8220;[Co-writer Halley Gross] and I did write an outline for a story, that we&#8217;re not making &#8211; but I hope one day can see the light of day &#8211; that explores a little bit what happens after this game. We&#8217;ll see.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-04-28-the-last-of-us-3-has-a-story-outline-neil-druckmann-hopes-will-one-day-see-the-light-of-day\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-04-28-the-last-of-us-3-has-a-story-outline-neil-druckmann-hopes-will-one-day-see-the-light-of-day\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naughty Dog has penned a story outline for The Last of Us 3, which creative director Neil Druckmann hopes &#8220;one day can see the light of day&#8221; &#8211; but it&#8217;s not in development at the moment. Speaking on the Script Apart podcast (thanks, IGN), Druckmann said the story outline that exists right now explores what happens after The Last of Us 2. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know how much I want to reveal,&#8221; Druckmann said. &#8220;[Co-writer Halley Gross] and I did write an outline for a story, that we&#8217;re not making &#8211; but I hope one day can see the light of day &#8211; that explores a little bit what happens after this game. We&#8217;ll see.&#8221; Read more Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Last of Us 3 has a story outline Neil Druckmann hopes will one day see the light of day | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Naughty Dog has penned a story outline for The Last of Us 3, which creative director Neil Druckmann hopes &quot;one day can see the light of day&quot; - but it&#039;s\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-last-of-us-3-has-a-story-outline-neil-druckmann-hopes-will-one-day-see-the-light-of-day\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Last of Us 3 has a story outline Neil Druckmann hopes will one day see the light of day | Arcader News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Naughty Dog has penned a story outline for The Last of Us 3, which creative director Neil Druckmann hopes &quot;one day can see the light of day&quot; - 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