It has been known for a long time that a series will be released for the successful game “The Last of Us” by Naughty Dog. Now a director has been found for the project.
The game “” published by the developer studio Naughty Dog in 2013 is still very popular today. In the game, adult Joel and girl Ellie fight their way through a dystopian world in which humans have been transformed into mutants by a dangerous fungus. But not only these infected people are a threat to Joel and Ellie, they also have to beware of other survivors.
In early March this year it was announced that the game was successful a series should appear. The developer is the author Craig Mazinwhose series was released in 2019Chernobyl“Became a surprise hit. In addition to Mazin, Neil Druckman is involved in the project, which is the author of the Playstation game. In an interview with Discussing film Now the “Chernobyl” director Johan Renck stated that he will also take on this post for the first episode of the “The Last of Us” series:
“I am the executive producer and I really like it. It will be an ongoing series. So it won’t be anything that I can do on a large scale, but I’m part of this series and will at least direct the pilot episode. Then we will see how it goes on. I mean, both Craig and I are working together again and will continue to work on other projects because we like each other. ”
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The balancing act between game and series is difficult
But as Johan Renck said in the interview, the development of the characters for the series is not that easy. The difficulty is that the actors of the live action adaptation have to be very similar to the video game characters so that they do justice to the game on the one hand and to the ideas of the viewers who know the game on the other:
“B‘The Last of Us’ is something that we often discuss. We have weekly phone calls to Craig, myself and Neil, who developed the game, about different approaches and how we can deal with them. How to deal with the fact that a video game character is much more developed than a character from a book. […] ‘The Last of Us’ will be a whole new project. That’s why we needed a lot of time to talk about it and to develop the first steps. “
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