
It's rare to see the original developer of a game so closely involved in the writing of a Hollywood adaptation, but, from a creative standpoint, it sounds like Mazin and Druckmann hit it off. HBO's The Last of Us will be produced by Craig Mazin, the Emmy-winning writer behind the Chernobyl, and Neil Druckmann, one of the key creators behind the game and the co-president of Naughty Dog, the game developer behind The Last of Us. Who are the creators behind The Last of Us? Craig Mazin at the Emmys in 2019 | FREDERIC J.
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At the very least, it will be exciting to see Pascal in a series where you see his face every episode. In June 2021, HBO announced that Nico Parker, who played Collin Farrell's daughter in Tim Burton's remake of Dumbo, will take on the role of Joel's daughter.Įxpect for more cast members to be announced in the coming months. In April 2021, HBO announced that Gabriel Luna, who recently played the super-advanced "Rev-9" Terminator in 2019's Terminator: Dark Fate, will play Tommy, the younger brother of Pascal's character Joel. So, The Last of Us will be a quasi- GoT reunion because the other main part, Ellie, will be played by Bella Ramsey, who played straight-talking fan-favorite Lyanna Mormont in the final seasons of the long-running fantasy epic. Recently, he's played the helmet-wearing title character in Disney+'s The Mandalorian and the wish-granting villain in Wonder Woman 1984, after his memorable stint as charismatic revenge-seeker Oberyn Martell in Season 4 of HBO's Game of Thrones. In February 2021, it was announced that Pedro Pascal would play Joel, the male lead in the series.

With so much charged material to work with, HBO's adaptation should be able to turn the game's bleakness into a powerful, unique take on a survival horror series. The game itself was praised for its capacity for hope even in its dire scenario, subversions of tired tropes about women needing to be saved, and the story at-large- UK gamer magazine Edge called it "the most riveting, emotionally resonant story-driven epic" of the PlayStation 3 era. In the game, you spend a lot of time avoiding and fighting your cannibalistic enemies with various, often makeshift, weapons, but, like with most ambitious zombie fare, there's quite a lot about human frailty in there and plenty of ethical conundrums to face. The zombies-like creatures in the game are referred to as "The Infected" and the first game is set roughly 20 years after the collapse of civilization following the initial outbreak. The Last of Us tells the story of Joel, a survivor of an apocalyptic event involving some deadly mutant fungi, and Ellie, a teenage girl who Joel agrees to smuggle out of a quarantine zone. 'The Last of Us Part II' | Sony Interactive Entertainment/Naughty Dog

Read ahead for everything we know about what will likely be one of the biggest genre shows of the next few years.

Will this one actually come out? Yes, it looks like it actually will-barring a zombie apocalypse. Now, HBO is producing a Last of Us series from Chernobyl producer Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, the game's co-writer and co-director.
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Though the game's publisher Sony announced in 2014 that it had signed on to distribute a Last of Us movie produced by Evil Dead and Spider-Man filmmaker Sam Raimi, the project got caught up in development hell and never came out. The game, which earned rave reviews, even being declared a masterpiece, and sold over a million units in its first week, fit right in with other early '10s zombie favorites like The Walking Deadand World War Z. Naughty Dog, the developer behind the popular Uncharted series (which is also getting the movie treatment starring Tom Holland as the Indiana Jones-meets-Benjamin Franklin Gates adventurer Nathan Drake), dreamed up the pummeling tragic story of the game, which follows a grizzled smuggler as he escorts a young girl across a zombie-packed wasteland, with a number of cinematic reference points like Night of the Living Dead and Sin City in mind.
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When the video game The Last of Us was released in 2013, it looked like a perfect candidate for a big-budget movie or TV adaptation.
