Flere rygter har tidligere peget på at Naughty Dog enten skal til, eller allerede er i gang med The Last of Us: Part III, men hvis det er tilfældet, så kunne noget tyde på at karakteren Tommy ikke vender tilbage.
Om ikke andet afslører stemmeskuespilleren bag karakteren i de to spil, Jeffrey Pierce, at Naughty Dog ikke har konktaktet ham omkring at medvirke i et nyt spil. I et interview med Dexerto siger han dette:
"At this point it's not something that has begun in any fashion, at least, not that I know of, and I would hate to set myself up to have expectations about what it would be and then have it be something completely different. I'm going to trust when Neil hands me a script that it's going to be perfect because that's the way it's been up until now. And when that happens and I'm asked about The Last of Us Part 3, I have to say I have no idea what you're talking about."
Vi kan ikke rigtig forestille os at Tommy, og dermed Pierce, ikke skulle være en del af et tredje kapitel, så måske de ikke rigtig er gået i gang?