Amy Hennig served as the creative director for Naughty Dog for most of the last generation, taking the lead on games like Jak and Daxter and the first three main series entries in the Uncharted series. However, she departed from the studio pretty abruptly last Spring, joining up with Visceral Games to work on Star Wars.

When she left, Neil Druckmann and the team from The Last of Us took over the direction of Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End. According to Nathan Drake voice actor Nolan North, they then tossed out eight months worth of work done by Hennig. Here’s North’s explanation of the situation:

Question: With Amy Hennig leaving, did they change the script at all to Uncharted 4? North: Yeah. I can’t really say too much about that…but I will. We had shot 8 months of her story and it was all thrown away. The Last of Us guys came in, and you have to understand, new producers, new people, they want to do it. I don’t know what happened exactly. Amy is still a very dear friend of mine and she’s brilliant but the Last of Us guys were the next team there so they took over and they just wanted their own flavour. They got rid of some of the other people that were involved and just redid their thing. Great move they made with Troy Baker [who] played my brother and they knew that was going to work because Troy and I are friends and he had done Joel and they knew he and I had good rapport. So it’ll be fun, the tone I think is gonna be slightly different. It has to be, you know, you can’t have a Robert Ludlum novel that’s going to be the same as Steven King. It’s just that they’re different styles. But it’s true to the story. Question: So it really hasn’t affected it at all? North: No, it’s going to be along the same lines with the story but I think there’ll be…I don’t know. I don’t know how it’ll affect the how thing and to be honest I am just as curious as everyone to see what the final product will look like. I do know there’s trust with the Naughty Dog designers and programmers, that place is still top notch and from the things I’ve seen and sound and all the stuff they’ve done, it’s amazing.

Based on North’s account, the main theme of the story will remain the same, but the script is all new material created after Hennig’s departure. It will be interesting to see how it stacks up against previous, Hennig-penned entries in the series.

Source: Nolan North (via Gearnuke)

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