The second season of the HBO and Sony Footage TV drama “The Final of Us” will launch in April, Sony confirmed Monday in the course of the electronics large’s presentation on the Client Electronics Present in Las Vegas.

Through the hourlong press session, Sony officers additionally disclosed that Columbia Footage and Sony PlayStation are engaged on a film adaptation of the online game “Horizon Zero Daybreak.” That title had been in growth as a sequence for Netflix. No different particulars concerning the film mission had been revealed aside from that the 2 Sony items are collaborating on a movie adaptation, in response to PlayStation Productions chief Asad Qizilbash.

The timing of the return of “Final of Us” was confirmed by Neil Druckmann, studio head and head of artistic for Naughty Canine, which created the online game on which the HBO drama is predicated. Druckmann additionally cued up a brief teaser for Season 2 for the viewers that gave followers a quick glimpse of Pedro Pascal’s Joel Miller and Bella Ramsey’s Ellie Williams, amongst different key characters.

An intense one-minute teaser was launched Monday on the Max YouTube channel, displaying flashes of what to anticipate within the new season. Notably, the teaser re-states the month of April because the Season 2 launch date with out naming a particular date.

Within the teaser, we get a primary have a look at Kaitlyn Dever as Abby, a personality that’s new to the present however performed a key position in “The Final of Us” sport sequence. “It doesn’t matter when you have a code like me,” she says after we see her stalking down a darkish hallway, pistol in hand. “There are just a few issues everybody agrees are simply fallacious.”

The official logline for Season 2 reads: “5 years after the occasions of the primary season, Joel and Ellie are drawn into battle with one another and a world much more harmful and unpredictable than the one they left behind.”

It was additionally introduced that Arrowhead Video games’ third-person shoot’em up “Helldivers” is being developed right into a characteristic movie. The unique “Helldivers” was a cult favourite amongst co-op avid gamers, however the franchise exploded to world recognition when its follow-up “Helldivers 2” was launched in 2024. The sequel is among the fastest-selling PlayStation video games of all time, promoting 12 million copies in its first 12 weeks in the marketplace.