In a recent interview, Naughty Dog creative director Neil Druckmann opened up about various topics, including his upcoming title, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, which he believes has the potential to become the studio's most expensive title.
Whether it does swell up to over $220 million that The Last of Us: Part Two had or not won't change the fact that Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is Naughty Dog's most ambitious title. Speaking to Variety, Druckmann said Intergalactic is in full production, with the potential to become the most expensive undertaking for the studio.
“It’s the most ambitious game we’ve ever made. It’s the most expansive game we’ve ever made, maybe the most expensive, by the time we finish it,” he said.
He did not reveal all too many crucial details, the game still being heavily in development and all, but did add that the game's trailer “doesn’t even scratch the surface of what this game actually is.” Druckmann described Intergalactic as a true evolutionary title, going far beyond what Uncharted and The Last of Us did, which he said was “grounded,” zombies and supernatural phenomena notwithstanding.
“You could look at our previous titles and see the evolution of going from Uncharted, where we’re really cutting our teeth on realistic character-action game, third-person shooter, combined with emotional storytelling,” he said.
“With The Last of Us, we added some RPG elements, we started playing with wide linear layouts. Continue that trajectory forward, add sci-fi, and you start to get the sense of what we’re doing, and then we’ve gotten even more ambitious than that.”
The ambitions and stakes are so high that Druckmann had to relinquish his role in The Last of Us TV show, choosing instead to focus all his efforts on running Naughty Dog, alongside writing and developing Intergalactic. He added that some actors we saw in the TLOU series would have roles in Intergalactic, alongside Troy Baker, who is probably the biggest name in video games right now.
If Intergalactic proves a successful story, we could even see TV and movie adaptations of it, Druckmann said, with studios already approaching Naughty Dog with offers based on the trailer alone.
All in all, it's a pretty heavy undertaking for the studio and Druckmann himself. Naughty Dog is looking to outdo itself this time around, with its chief excited to see how everything will come together in the end.
Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet does not yet have a release date, but you can check out its first trailer here, in case you missed out.
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