HBO - The Last of Us

[Sure-Oz]

@HBO: Look for the light.

@clmazin and @Neil_Druckmann to develop the series adaptation of #TheLastOfUs, coming soon to HBO: http://itsh.bo/thelastofus https://twitter.com/HBO/status/12356...572032/video/1

The Last of Us' Series in the Works at HBO From 'Chernobyl' Creator Craig Mazin, Neil Druckmann (Exclusive)

MARCH 05, 2020 9:30AMby*Borys Kit, Patrick Shanley

Craig Mazin, the creator of the acclaimed limited series*Chernobyl,*is reteaming with HBO adapt*The Last of Us, the massive Sony PlayStation video game franchise.
In a rare development in the world of video game adaptations, the writer and creative director of the game, Neil Druckmann, is also involved, and will work with Mazin to pen and executive produce what is intended to be a series.

Carolyn Strauss will also executive produce along with Evan Wells, the president of Naughty Dog, the Santa Monica-based developer of the game. The project is a co-production with Sony Pictures Television and in association with PlayStation Productions and it will be the first television series from PlayStation Productions.
Originally launched in 2013, Sony and Naughty Dog’s*The Last of Us*garnered critical praise for its engrossing tale of the post-apocalypse centered on the relationship between Joel, a smuggler in this new world, and Ellie, a teenager who may be a key to a cure for the deadly pandemic.
Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle the14-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. The HBO series will cover the events of the original game, which was written by Druckmann, with the possibility of additional content based on the forthcoming game sequel,*The Last of Us Part II, which will release on May 29, 2020.
Mazin, who is said to be an avid player of the game, stated, “Neil Druckmann is without question the finest storyteller working in the video game medium, and*The Last of Us*is his magnum opus. Getting a chance to adapt this breathtaking work of art has been a dream of mine for years, and I’m so honored to do it in partnership with Neil.”
“From the first time I sat down to talk with Craig I was equally blown away by his approach to narrative and his love and deep understanding of*The Last of Us,” said Druckmann in a statement. “With*Chernobyl, Craig and HBO created a tense, harrowing, emotional masterpiece. I couldn’t think of better partners to bring the story of*The Last of Us*to life as a television show.”
Last of Us*won numerous “game of the year” awards and went on to sell more than 17 million copies across both its original release on the PlayStation 3 and a remastered version on the PlayStation 4.
“This is an incredibly exciting opportunity for us to partner with Craig, Neil, Carolyn and the teams at Sony, Naughty Dog and PlayStation to bring the virtual world of this acclaimed game to life,” stated HBO programming president Casey Bloys.
“This is the first of many shows we intend to develop with our friends at PlayStation Productions,” said Chris Parnell, co-president of Sony Pictures Television Studios.*The Last of Us*is a brilliant achievement in storytelling and character development, and we are lucky to have the opportunity to work with this team to adapt it.”
Druckmann is a longtime vet of Naughty Dog, starting as a programming intern in 2004. In 2007, he was given the role of game designer on*Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, the first installment in the action adventure series. In 2013, he created*The Last of Us, based on a concept he developed as a student at Carnegie Mellon University.
Mazin’s*Chernobyl*tackled a bleak and complex true-life event and became a must-see show for HBO. The show won an Emmy for outstanding limited series and landed one for Mazin for outstanding writing. Mazin also won a PGA and a WGA Award.


Holy shit this is gonna be awesome.

[Wallcrawler]

Originally Posted by DJJasonp

wow, you ARE 12!

as I said yesterday, time to get checked out in the blue tent.

Spending days trying to convince everyone that you, and your takes, are so superior.

Good day.

I'm just waiting for a response to even ONE of the examples I posted of sheer stupidity. You can't respond, because there's no logical way to explain away obviously stupid writing.

I've asked repeatedly for you to explain how any of those examples made sense to you, as a person touting this as one of the best videogame stories ever told. I haven't really seen anyone that agrees with those decisions explain why. I'm open to hearing an explanation, however, explanations defending these decisions either do not exist, or they're kept close to the vest and not discussed.

I'm not 12, I'm just highly amused at your refusal to answer the question.

Again, how did even a single one of the examples I pulled from the game (including one that the show changed because it was so stupid), make any sense whatsoever to anyone born with adequate oxygen?

[DJJasonp]

Originally Posted by Wallcrawler

I'm just waiting for a response to even ONE of the examples I posted of sheer stupidity. You can't respond, because there's no logical way to explain away obviously stupid writing.

I've asked repeatedly for you to explain how any of those examples made sense to you, as a person touting this as one of the best videogame stories ever told. I haven't really seen anyone that agrees with those decisions explain why. I'm open to hearing an explanation, however, explanations defending these decisions either do not exist, or they're kept close to the vest and not discussed.

I'm not 12, I'm just highly amused at your refusal to answer the question.

Again, how did even a single one of the examples I pulled from the game (including one that the show changed because it was so stupid), make any sense whatsoever to anyone born with adequate oxygen?

GO BACK TO MY RESPONSES a few posts back.

I answered every question you have. You seriously might be rerunned at this point.

I can't help you if you don't like my answers.

[Wallcrawler]

Originally Posted by DJJasonp

GO BACK TO MY RESPONSES a few posts back.

I answered every question you have. You seriously might be rerunned at this point.

I can't help you if you don't like my answers.

You have addressed exactly zero of the examples provided, and given your take on that particular decision, how it made sense to you, and how it's very presence fails to stop you from touting it as the best videogame story ever told.

We have some winners like "I'm not going to take the time to respond"(while responding and avoiding the question)

"Hit the blue tent" and "Are you 12."

You also hilariously seem to think that my posts have influence of some sort and that they are making people not watch the show, instead of watching on their own and deciding for themselves. That was in there. While entertaining for sure, it still remains a poor deflection from the list of examples in the spoilers that I asked you for your takes on, specifically.

You've provided no glimpse at the other side of the coin. I think this decision happened because......_________. It makes sense to me because....__________.

Nothing. Lmao. You've simply abandoned the point while slinging the most pathetic attempts to hurt my feels instead of just giving your takes on what I believe are examples of monumentally stupid writing.

[DJJasonp]

Originally Posted by Wallcrawler

You have addressed exactly zero of the examples provided, and given your take on that particular decision, how it made sense to you, and how it's very presence fails to stop you from touting it as the best videogame story ever told.

We have some winners like "I'm not going to take the time to respond"(while responding and avoiding the question)

"Hit the blue tent" and "Are you 12."

You also hilariously seem to think that my posts have influence of some sort and that they are making people not watch the show, instead of watching on their own and deciding for themselves. That was in there. While entertaining for sure, it still remains a poor deflection from the list of examples in the spoilers that I asked you for your takes on, specifically.

You've provided no glimpse at the other side of the coin. I think this decision happened because......_________. It makes sense to me because....__________.

Nothing. Lmao. You've simply abandoned the point while slinging the most pathetic attempts to hurt my feels instead of just giving your takes on what I believe are examples of monumentally stupid writing.

Congrats - after 20 years on this board, you're the first on my ignore list.

F'n Reerun.

[Hammock Parties]

all this whinging over some lesbian drama

[Wallcrawler]

Originally Posted by DJJasonp

Congrats - after 20 years on this board, you're the first on my ignore list.

F'n Reerun.

Tapout accepted.

[srvy]

Originally Posted by notorious

Or truly great shows.

This isn’t great, it’s ok for you guys love it. It’s just that this shit has been done what feels like a million times over already.

I stopped watching this shit in season 1 at the carnival rides still lighting up and working with no maintenance not to mention the power grid.

Just not my cup of tea. I understand that the video game crowd loves it. I just was never a gamer.

[srvy]

Also that moon faced child is terrible.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by srvy

I stopped watching this shit in season 1 at the carnival rides still lighting up and working with no maintenance not to mention the power grid.

Agreed, where are we if we don't have strict realism on the fungal zombie show?

[Wallcrawler]

Originally Posted by srvy

I stopped watching this shit in season 1 at the carnival rides still lighting up and working with no maintenance not to mention the power grid.

Just not my cup of tea. I understand that the video game crowd loves it. I just was never a gamer.

Lmao. So, it wasn't the fact that Cordyceps took over the planet, it wasn't that they cast a walking talking potato to play Ellie, it wasn't even that it was a subpar zombie show with a big lack of infected in the first season.....

It was that the carnival rides still worked without the tender loving touch of a one tooth redneck to maintain it.

That's the funniest shit I've read in a long time.

[ChiliConCarnage]

I just caught up on the first 2 episodes of S2. Was spoiled partially unfortunately.

I thought it was pretty good. Easy to understand with both sides of the conflict