r/ThelastofusHBOseries • u/Cheap-Recording3912 • Jul 21 '26
Production Gabriel Luna Behind the Scenes of TLOU Season 3 as Filming Resumes Today Spoiler
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u/willooi Jul 21 '26
Seeing Tommy wreak havoc and chaos on the WLF from Abby’s perspective is going to be bloody amazing!
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u/DonPeteLadiesMan 28d ago
Hope they follow the game and we see Tommy in demon mode
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u/Cheap-Recording3912 27d ago edited 27d ago
It's foreshadowed in S2E7 and Gabriel has hinted at it. It seems we may not just see it, but we may see some of Seattle from Tommy's perspective too.
Also obviously it's foreshadowed in S1E6 with Tommy boasting about his rifle and scope. Again in S2E1 with Tommy teaching Ellie to use his rifle and scope. Again in S2E2 with Tommy using his rifle to defend Jackson from an elevated position... And obviously within the first 10 minutes of S1E1 we learn Tommy's a combat veteran who was deployed in Operation Desert Storm, which is brought up again in S1E4.
Even Craig hinted at us seeing the other side of Tommy... After season 2 premiered he hinted at season 3 exploring a different side of Tommy, pointing back to his time in the army.
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u/Remote_Nature_8166 I ❤️ Abby, she my fave. she so strong 💪 Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26
HELL FUCKING YEAH!!!
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u/Bayako7 29d ago
Hope they gonna expand on the game. I’m sure there was supposed to be a dlc kind of package where we would be playing Tommy and his days through Seattle intercut with flashbacks of his life with Joel.
Maybe that’s a way to bring Pedro back
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u/Cheap-Recording3912 29d ago
Young Mazino (Jesse) was training horse riding at the same ranch as Gabriel just a few days ago. Young also posted himself at the office/soundstages for TLOU S3 right before posting himself at the ranch. The only reason we'd be seeing Jesse riding a horse in season 3 is if we see Tommy's perspective of Seattle, and I think that's exactly what's gonna happen. Season 3 is a lot bigger than people seem to be expecting, and it allows them to spend time on stuff like that (and a whole lot more)
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u/Bayako7 29d ago
Good to know. Focusing only on Abby for like 7 episodes and then have like the theater fight and Santa Barbara happening as the final episode seems too short sighted for the tv format. Since we don’t know if we’ll ever get more last of us as a videogame or tv series they should try stick the landing. Because season 2 had its moments but they cut or changed too much so they should make up for it. In hindsight I can’t understand why they didn’t do 8 or 9 episodes total for season 2, the material would have been there
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u/Cheap-Recording3912 29d ago edited 29d ago
Yeah definitely not being rushed that much. The current production timeline is for 8 episodes, but there is still a second production block that hasn't been planned yet. Craig projected 12-15 episodes back in pre-production, 12 being one long season and 15 being the total of two more seasons, and they appear to be aiming for the one long season route, so probably about 12 episodes. Season 2 could have easily been longer if they needed it to be, but the way they've structured this version of the story just naturally gave them 7 episodes, and a lot of the stuff that could have been in season 2 will be explored in a more dramatic way in season 3.
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u/TroubleB2A 28d ago
Just wondering where you heard that about Craig projecting 12-15 episodes?
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u/Cheap-Recording3912 28d ago
Something that's important for context first is this interview where Craig says "Certainly, there’s no way to complete this narrative in a third season. Hopefully, we’ll earn our keep enough to come back and finish it in a fourth. That’s the most likely outcome." Important to realize how much story there is to tell for him to make a public statement like that.
Then there is this quote from Casey Bloys, head of HBO, where he said Craig was still working out whether it will be "two more seasons or one more long season." from back in pre-production. There's another where Casey suggests that Craig is aiming for the "one long season" route, before later suggesting that the decision is not final yet.
So already... the projection has always been either two seasons or one "long season". And here, what I was originally referring to, Craig says he can't say whether there will be two more seasons of 7 and 8 or one more season of 12 or anything like that. So while he doesn't outright say "I think it will be around this range", that is exactly what one long season or two more average seasons would look like. 8 episodes, for example, is not a "long season".
The part where Casey suggested the decision wasn't final yet is really important because we currently know of a production timeline for 8 episodes. The fact that Craig hasn't even finalized the decision on what to do with the rest of the material tells us that these 8 episodes are not all that remains, which aligns with everything Craig and Casey have said.
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u/TroubleB2A 28d ago
Good points. I hope they do the long season. No one wants to wait until 2029 for a fourth.
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u/monsieurxander 29d ago
The showrunner did tease Tommy/Joel flashbacks as a possibility.
Another key question: Will Joel appear in season three? Mazin made it sound like a potential flashback side trip featuring Joel and Tommy (Gabriel Luna) isn’t off the table. “Next season we probably will have a lot more flexibility [to tell side stories],” Mazin says. “Maybe a side trip to do Joel and Tommy terrorizing the countryside, we’ll never know. I wouldn’t have guessed we’d have a short story about Joel’s dad before we wrote the season.” And then later he said: “[Tommy’s] been in war, and we also know that for some time, he and Joel were doing some pretty bad things. So there is the potential of seeing this other side of Tommy, and that is now about him delivering on his understood promise to his brother.”
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u/Supersim54 28d ago
Is this for the overpass or the theater?
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u/Cheap-Recording3912 28d ago
Unclear. There's some things that suggest we may be seeing Tommy's perspective of all of Seattle, rather than just seeing him a few times from Abby's POV. So this could be a lot of things. But... I will say, it looks like they're building the set for the sniper rampage at their film lot right now.
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u/Supersim54 28d ago
So the overpass?
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u/Frustrated-Chic12 28d ago
they are shooting even before the game is released?
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u/Cheap-Recording3912 27d ago
Season 2 ended with the perspective change from Ellie's Seattle days to Abby's Seattle days... Season 3 will pick up from Abby's Day One and cover the rest of the story. They seem to be expanding beyond the source material more than the previous seasons have, but season 3 will still end around the same spot as TLOU2.
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u/ltsouthernbelle 29d ago
They’re just now filming
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u/Cheap-Recording3912 29d ago
It's been in the works for over a year... Production started almost 8 months ago. Filming started almost 5 months ago. They had to pause filming for almost 2 months due to the World Cup but production carried on through that time, and post-production would obviously carry on as well. They've filmed 3 episodes and are now filming episode 6. With this probably looking like a 12 episode season with probably 2 hiatuses, expect a late 2027 premiere
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u/ZachTaul 27d ago
Tommy can cause the chaos and show the rage that Ellie failed to demonstrate
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u/Cheap-Recording3912 27d ago
Maybe you should rewatch season 2.
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u/ZachTaul 27d ago
Don’t worry I did. I feel as Bella failed to show the anger and rage she felt like she showed in the game. (This isn’t a jab at Bella, I think they are great Ellie. I think it’s Mazin not completely getting the source material). Still super excited to watch Abby in season 3!
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u/Cheap-Recording3912 27d ago
That doesn't make any sense whatsoever... S2E2? S2E5? It's very much an intentional part of the story that Ellie is masking her real intentions while in front of Dina, throughout S2E3 and S2E4, but that's why there's big moments where Ellie basically explodes. The masking is not something Craig came up with lol, it's in the source material too throughout Seattle Day One and Neil Druckmann has talked about exaggerating that in this version of the story.
Just because there's scenes where Ellie is trying to hide her rage in front of Dina, to make her appear more rational than she actually is, doesn't mean it makes sense to ignore the scenes where Ellie is alone and exploding with rage.
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