Hennig had been working on Uncharted 4 with Nolan North. According to him, a considerable amount of work - up to eight months of shooting - was thrown away when The Last of Us directors Neil Druckmann and Bruce Straley took over.
"I can't really say too much about that..." North began. "But I will. We had shot eight months of her story and it was all thrown away. The Last of Us guys came in, they wanted... 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 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 just wanted their own flavour. They got rid of some of the other people involved and just redid the thing.
He added: "The tone I think is going to be slightly different. Has to be. It's like, you can't have... A Robert Ludlum novel is not going to be the same as Stephen King - they're different styles. But it's true to the story."
"I can't really say too much about that..." North began. "But I will. We had shot eight months of her story and it was all thrown away. The Last of Us guys came in, they wanted... 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 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 just wanted their own flavour. They got rid of some of the other people involved and just redid the thing.
He added: "The tone I think is going to be slightly different. Has to be. It's like, you can't have... A Robert Ludlum novel is not going to be the same as Stephen King - they're different styles. But it's true to the story."
