Everything We Know About HBO’s The Last Of Us TV Show
Who’s involved?
The Last of Us and The Last of Us 2 are beloved games, so meddling with them in any way would be quite a risk for HBO. However, there are a few positive signs that this adaptation is set to be a good one. For starters, The Last of Us game director and Naughty Dog co-president, Neil Druckmann, is onboard as an executive producer. There’s pretty much no one else in the world who knows The Last of Us games like Druckmann, so it’s in safe hands there. He’s also working with a long-time fan of the games and award-winning Chernobyl writer, Craig Mazin, who we know can write a damn good TV show. The series has hired relatively unknown directors so far. Kantemir Balagov (Beanpole) is helming the pilot episode and Jasmila Zbanic (Quo Vadis, Aida) and Ali Abbasi (Border) also taking episodes in the series. Liza Johnson (What We Do In The Shadows), Peter Hoar (Daredevil) and Jeremy Webb (The Umbrella Academy) will also reportedly helm episodes as will Druckmann. Gustavo Santaolalla, who gave us The Last of Us’ excellent soundtrack, will also be back to compose music for the show. HBO itself has a strong track record of producing high-quality genre shows, including Game of Thrones, Westworld and Watchmen. Here’s hoping the studio’s breadth of experience follows through here. Sony Pictures Television and PlayStation Productions are also on board behind the scenes.Will the TV show be different to the games?
The story takes place twenty years after modern civilisation has been destroyed. Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse across the U.S. and depend on each other for survival.That sure does sound like The Last of Us. The announcement also notes that the series will “cover the events of the original game” with the “possibility of additional content” based on The Last of Us 2. Neil Druckmann revealed in an interview with IGN that the first season of the show will cover the events of the first game. Druckmann said things in the show will stick pretty closely to the game for the most part. However, some things will differ greatly due to the differences between mediums. “Some of my favourite episodes so far have deviated greatly from the story, and I can’t wait for people to see them,” he said. Whether the audience agrees will be a different question. Should there be another season of The Last of Us we can assume that will take us into the events of Part II. Given there’s a five-year time gap between games that leaves plenty of room to expand upon those lost years in the TV show. The first official image from the show was released on The Last of Us day in 2021 and, as you can see, things are looking pretty accurate.
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— Naughty Dog (@Naughty_Dog) September 27, 2021
Is there a trailer for The Last of Us TV show?
The first teaser trailer for The Last of Us was released, aptly, on The Last of Us day in 2022, which is marked on September 26 to honour the day the pandemic broke out in the game. The trailer shows us very accurate depictions of many iconic scenes in the game, including our first glimpse at the horrifying infected. We also have a few seconds of additional footage from The Last of Us in an HBO sizzle reel. Gaze upon it below (it shows up right at the end). Look at my children.The Last of Us TV show: Cast
The Last of Us TV show: Release date
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