The second season of the HBO and Sony Pictures TV drama “The Last of Us” will launch in April, Sony confirmed Monday during the electronics giant’s presentation at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

During the hourlong press session, Sony officials also disclosed that Columbia Pictures and Sony PlayStation are working on a movie adaptation of the video game “Horizon Zero Dawn.” That title had been in development as a series for Netflix. No other details about the movie project were revealed other than that the two Sony units are collaborating on a film adaptation, according to PlayStation Productions chief Asad Qizilbash.

The timing of the return of “Last of Us” was confirmed by Neil Druckmann, studio head and head of creative for Naughty Dog, which created the video game on which the HBO drama is based. Druckmann also cued up a short teaser for Season 2 for the...