The Final of Us’s govt producer, Craig Mazin, has confirmed there are not any plans for a Invoice and Frank spin-off. Nick Offerman (Invoice) talked about on the Artistic Arts Emmys on January 6 that the showrunners had pitched a prequel sequence to HBO based mostly on the enormously beloved characters, however apparently it was all only a joke. It seems Offerman was simply goofing round, and it ought to put to relaxation these frightened that this good second from the primary season of the TV present can be spoiled.
For the seven individuals who didn’t watch HBO’s 2023 sequence based mostly on the PlayStation recreation, Invoice and Frank have been two characters who appeared in a standalone episode inside the first season, a pair who be taught the facility of unconditional love within the midst of an apocalypse. It was a superbly instructed story of affection and loss, profitable Offerman an Emmy for his position, and have become a fan-favorite episode. Like something that doesn’t outstay its welcome, there’s a contingent of viewers who want they may have extra.
“It definitely has been pitched,” Offerman mentioned earlier this month, in response to Deadline. Nonetheless, what wasn’t clear was the tone wherein he mentioned it. The actor continued, extra clearly joking towards the top, “I feel we pitched an entire mini-series of a prequel of their lives earlier than they met one another. It might be a musical. We’re not quick on concepts.”
As Kotaku’s Alyssa Mercante argued January 8, “Invoice and Frank’s story was a superbly clear open-and-shut romance—any extra of it could cheapen what we have been already given.” So it’s with some aid that Deadline has cleared up the mess by chatting with Mazin at HBO’s after-party for January 15’s Primetime Emmys. “I’m very pleased with the episode we did with Invoice and Frank,” mentioned Mazin, the creator of the Invoice and Frank episode, ‘Lengthy, Lengthy Time.’ Nonetheless, he added, “There gained’t be extra Invoice and Frank.”
He additional defined that Nick Offerman “was joking a couple of prequel, that was type of a joke,” lastly including, “We’re very pleased with what we achieved.”
So sure, the entire thing reads like a poor, drained man pissed off to be clearing up the confusion created by the incredible improvisational comic he briefly employed a yr in the past. “Sort of a joke” certainly.
Capturing begins on The Final of Us season two in February. Mazin assured Deadline that the sling star Pedro Pascal was sporting at January’s award ceremonies wouldn’t cease him from clocking in.
