For the role of father figure Joel, the producers chose Pedro Pascal ( Game of Thrones, The Mandolorian), who has interactive experience from voicing Paolo in the 2016 sneaky action game Dishonored 2, while Ellie will be played by Pascal’s Thrones co-star Bella Ramsey, who voiced Freya in Doctor Who Infinity: The Dalek Invasion of Time. (Photo by Toni Anne Barson/WireImage Dave J Hogan/Getty Images)įittingly, the cast announced so far includes a few video game veterans. The things that are new and enhancing of the storyline that we’re doing are connected in organic, serious ways that I think fans of the game and newcomers alike will appreciate.” Not to undo, but rather to enhance,” adding that, “It’s not like we just decided, ‘Well, wouldn’t it be cool if there’s one episode where Joel and Ellie get on motorcycles and confront a motorcycle gang?’ There’s no episodic nonsense here. Mazin also said, “So the changes that we’re making are designed to fill things out and expand.
#The last of us series
In an interview with the BBC Sounds’ “Must Watch” webcast, series co-creator and writer Craig Mazin said of his Naughty Dog collaborator on the series, “Neil, at one point, he was like, ‘You know, there’s one thing we were talking about for a while,’ and then he told me what it was, and I was like - gonk! - OK, jaw drop, that’s going in. That said, it actually seems more likely that they’ll pull elements from The Last of Us: Left Behind, an Ellie-centric prequel set before the events of the first game.īut the series is expected to expand upon the game’s story as well, including, apparently, some elements that were previously cut from the game. It’s expected that while the show will mostly follow the plot of the first game, it may incorporate elements from The Last of Us Part II, which is set five years after the first game. As they make their way from what used to be Boston to what’s left of Salt Lake City, they run into the usual post-apocalyptic tropes, including roving groups of infected, a couple of cannibals, some huge jerks, and a giraffe who’s escaped from a zoo and is getting out while the getting is good. In The Last of Us, tough-guy survivor Joel Miller is hired to escort a teenager named Ellie through the wasteland and to some doctors who believe that Ellie may be the cure to the plague. Here’s everything we know so far about the anticipated adaptation.
#The last of us movie
Seven years after first announcing that they’d be making a movie out of the video game The Last of Us, and five since those plans collapsed, Sony is now bringing the sneaky and scary survival horror game to HBO, with some familiar names helping out.īased on the 2013 game, The Last of Us is set in 2033, 20 years after the world’s population, and thus society has been decimated by a fungal infestation of the brain that initially makes its victims violently insane and feral, and later destroys their eyes, forcing them to use echo location to find people… and rip their throats out. (Photo by Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment)