Season 2 of HBO’s smash hit adaption of the video game The Last of Us, which wrapped principal photography late last month, is back this weekend with a surprise film shoot in downtown Vancouver.
We will know more as the set is dressed, likely as overgrown post-apocalyptic Seattle.
The Last of Us has been in this location before for a sequence of Bella Ramsey’s Ellie and Isabela Merced’s Dina on horseback at Oceanic Plaza dressed as Seattle.
Season 2 is divided between chapters set in Jackson, Wyoming and Seattle, Washington.
Production built a massive walled western town set at Britannia Beach on the Sea to Sky Highway to play Jackson.
And turned much of downtown Vancouver (and Nanaimo) into an overgrown post-apocalyptic Seattle for those chapters.
Downtown Vancouver alley/Harbour Green Park.
300 & 400 blocks of West Cordova Street.
What is The Last of Us?
Season one of The Last of Us took place 20 years after modern civilization had been destroyed by a fungal pandemic. Joel (Pedro Pascal), a hardened survivor, was hired to smuggle teen Ellie (Bella Ramsey) out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What started as a small job soon became a brutal, heartbreaking journey as they both traversed across the U.S. and depended on each other for survival.
At the end of season one, Joel and Ellie headed back to Jackson, Wyoming, a walled community of survivors from the fungal pandemic led by Joel’s brother Tommy Miller (Gabriel Luna) and sister-in-law Maria (Rutina Wesley).
In season 2, we meet some new characters In Jackson like Ellie’s new friend Dina (Isabela Merced) and young scout Jesse (Young Mazino).
We also meet a group of former Fireflies who join Isaac (Jeffrey Wright)’s Washington Liberation Front (WLF) in Seattle: soldier Abby Anderson (Kaitlyn Dever), who’s seeking vengeance for someone she loved; soldier Manny (Danny Ramirez), doctor Mel (Ariela Barer), military medic Nora (Tati Gabrielle) and Owen (Spencer Lord).
Kaitlyn Dever’s Abby Anderson.
Jeffrey Wright’s Isaac.
Ellie and Dina later travel from Jackson to Seattle on a horse named Shimmer.
The Last of Us Season 2:
Episodes: 7.
Working title: MEGA SWORD
B.C. filming dates: February 12 2024 – August 23 2024.
Co-Creators/Writers: Craig Mazin, Neil Druckmann.
Directors: Craig Mazin, Mark Mylod, Peter Hoar, Kate Herron, Stephen Williams, Neil Druckmann, Nina Lopez-Corrado.
Cast: Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Gabriel Luna, Rutina Wesley, Isabela Merced, Young Mazino, Kaitlyn Dever, Danny Ramirez, Ariela Barer, Tati Gabrielle, Spencer Lord.
Guest stars: Catherine o”Hara, Jeffrey Wright.
Sound stages: Bridge Studios.
The Last of Us season 2 premieres in 2025 on HBO.