The Final of Us’s government producer, Craig Mazin, has confirmed there aren’t 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 fearful that this excellent 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 sport, Invoice and Frank had been two characters who appeared in a standalone episode throughout the first season, a pair who be taught the facility of unconditional love within the midst of an apocalypse. It was a fantastically instructed story of affection and loss, successful 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 might have extra.
“It actually has been pitched,” Offerman mentioned earlier this month, in keeping with Deadline. Nonetheless, what wasn’t clear was the tone through which 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 may very well be a musical. We’re not quick on concepts.”
As Kotaku’s Alyssa Mercante argued January 8, “Invoice and Frank’s story was a wonderfully clear open-and-shut romance—any extra of it will cheapen what we had 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 happy 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 received’t be extra Invoice and Frank.”
He additional defined that Nick Offerman “was joking a couple of prequel, that was form of a joke,” lastly including, “We’re very proud of what we achieved.”
So sure, the entire thing reads like a poor, drained man annoyed to be clearing up the confusion created by the unbelievable improvisational comic he briefly employed a 12 months in the past. “Form of a joke” certainly.
Taking pictures 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.