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The Last of Us: Frank/Bill Return "Has Been Pitched": Nick Offerman

After winning the Emmy for Guest Actor in a Drama for The Last of Us, Nick Offerman shared that a possible Frank/Bill return has been pitched.

While much of the coverage of Craig Mazin & Neil Druckmann's Pedro Pascal (Joel) & Bella Ramsey (Bella)-starring The Last of Us has been focused on when filming will be getting underway on the eagerly-anticipated second season, let's not forget that it's all awards season – with the first season in the running for some top honors. That was evident on Saturday night during the first night of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards, with the cable series snagging eight honors. Along with Emmys for Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup, Visual Effects, Main Title Design, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, and Picture Editing, Nick Offerman won Guest Actor in a Drama Series, and Storm Reid won Guest Actress in a Drama Series. Speaking with the press after his win, Offerman shared that he would definitely revisit his role as Bill – adding that a return of some type for him and Murray Bartlett (who portrayed Frank) "has been pitched."

"Oh, great question, but I would have to ask somebody with a higher pay grade than myself. It certainly has been pitched," Offerman responded when asked about the possibility of more Bill & Frank in the future – whether as a flashback during the main series or… a mini-series? "I think we pitched a whole mini-series of a prequel of their lives before they met each other. It could be a musical. We're not short on ideas. We'll just we'll see what Craig [Mazin] and Neil [Druckmann] come up with," the actor joked. Here's a look at a clip of Offerman speaking with the press on Saturday night:

The Last of Us: Craig Mazin on Season 2 & Beyond

In an interview with Variety from Summer 2023, Mazin discussed how a 2025 debut for the second season was still workable (depending on when the then-ongoing SAG-AFTRA & WGA strikes would end), confirmed that Season 3 will happen (as long as the viewers keep watching), and addressed the possibility of familiar faces returning in flashbacks (and why they have no plans to mess with that "beautiful" episode).

"The Last of Us" Could Still Make Its 2025 Delivery Date – For Now: "We had a little more flexibility, I think, than normally just because we had to wait a little bit longer any way to line up production with the weather. A lot of what we do is outside, and so we had a schedule that weirdly hasn't been immediately impacted. But we're getting pretty close; we can't keep our original start dates forever, obviously. If these strikes go much longer, we inevitably will have to push, and that hurts us, and it hurts the audience, and it hurts HBO. We all, everybody wants to get back to work; I think everybody that's actually doing the work, including the network people who are with us on the ground, I think everybody just wants to get this solved. So fingers crossed."

"The Last of Us" Season 3 Will Happen As Long As Viewers Keep Watching: "It's going to be more than one season. There's more story, so this show will not end with Season 2 unless people don't watch it, and we'll get canceled. Barring that, we will be doing some things exactly the way they were in the game. We're going to do other things that are in the game, and we're gonna do some things that are in the game, but we're gonna do them differently in our own method. No matter if you have played the game or not. You will be surprised as the season unfolds. We have some interesting twists and turns."

Could Melanie Lynskey, Storm Reid & Others Return via Flashbacks? "There's always a chance for everything. With us, you never know, and we obviously don't confine ourselves by timelines. People who are dead sometimes reappear, and sometimes we meet people that we didn't even know, and then we find out that they are somebody."

Mazin on Why There Won't Be Another Bill (Nick Offerman) & Frank (Murray Bartlett) Episode: "What you won't see is, for instance, another very special episode with Bill and Frank; we aren't going to milk it. When we do something that we think is beautiful, we let it be as it is and find other beautiful things to do."

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