Actor Troy Baker is set to star in Naughty Dog’s untitled new game.
The Sony-owned studio is building a yet-to-be announced single-player game with Uncharted and The Last of Us chief Neil Druckmann at the helm. Fans know next to nothing about this project, but according to GQ, Troy Baker has signed on to appear in it.
“In a heartbeat I would always work with Troy,” Druckmann is quoted as saying in the article. Baker famously played Joel in The Last of Us Parts 1 and 2 for Naughty Dog and has worked closely with Druckmann for years.
In December last year, Naughty Dog canceled The Last of Us Online, its troubled attempt to create a live service version of the popular franchise. At the time, the studio said it would have needed to put all its resources into post-launch content for years to come, and that approach would have severely impacted its ability to develop future single-player games. Naughty Dog then went on to confirm that it had more than one ambitious brand new single-player game in the works, without revealing anything about them.
In June, Druckmann said Naughty Dog was looking to break away from being predominantly associated with The Last of Us. "I promise you, we will not be The Last of Us studio forever," Druckmann insisted, speaking of Naughty Dog's beloved post-apocalyptic franchise that debuted in 2013 and received its Part 2 sequel in 2020. The studio is otherwise best known for creating the Uncharted franchise, though this was put to bed with 2016's Uncharted 4: A Thief's End and smaller follow-up The Lost Legacy a year later.
In the shorter term, Baker is set to star as Indiana Jones for MachineGames’ Indiana Jones and The Great Circle. Then, he will appear in Ken Levine’ Judas, having played Bioshock: Infinite protagonist Booker DeWitt. Season 2 of HBO's hit TV show The Last of Us comes out spring 2025.
