The Last of Us HBO showrunner says “flat out” that “I am not going to go past the game” like Game of Thrones did with George R.R. Martin’s novels

The Last of Us showrunner Craig Mazin says he and co-showrunner Neil Druckmann have no plans to pull a Game of Thrones and break the show off into directions that aren’t included in the source work.

“I am not going to go past the game. I’ll just say that flat out. So if people are thinking, ‘Oh, these guys are planning the old cash grab thing,'” Mazin told The Hollywood Reporter. “I’m basically setting a decade of my rapidly dwindling life on fire to tell this story. The show is so hard to make. It has to have an end. So I’m not going to go past.”