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.

[DJJasonp]

Originally Posted by Wallcrawler

Haha okay. Hey bruh, have you SEEN Abby's character model in the game? Have you even played this? Thunderdyke is tame bro. All while we are told that Abby's design is perfectly realistic. So realistic in fact that they could find literally nobody to cast that looked like that.

Now you don't know the difference between a rant and a list of examples of horrible writing taken directly from the game.

It's really no wonder you find the story so great. Somebody probably told you it was, and incapable of any modicum of critical thinking just jumped on the bandwagon.

It only sold half of what the original game did, likely because those people duped into purchasing purposely avoided the leaks and spoilers. Had they known what was coming, the game probably doesn't even reach half of the first games sales.

are you 12?

I've played 1 and 2 multiple times. Did I enjoy 2 as much as 1? Of course not, but it's still better than 90% of games in the same genre.

You're seriously becoming like indie record store employees - gotta shit on anything that's sold more than 4 copies.

Agree to disagree on this one. I'm not going to lose any sleep over people loving or hating it......but your hatred over this is already influencing others to consider dropping off, which is really silly.

At the end of the day, this is not the Godfather trilogy. As others have pointed out, it's a post-apocalyptic zombie story (where the story is about the people and not the zombies)

I saw the blogs after playing Pt 2.........and it's painfully obvious a huge chunk of the hate is related to gay characters.

If that's your thing - cool.

I enjoyed Pt 2 - and that doesnt make me right or wrong - it's art, and art is subjective.

[Wallcrawler]

Originally Posted by DJJasonp

are you 12?

I've played 1 and 2 multiple times. Did I enjoy 2 as much as 1? Of course not, but it's still better than 90% of games in the same genre.

You're seriously becoming like indie record store employees - gotta shit on anything that's sold more than 4 copies.

Agree to disagree on this one. I'm not going to lose any sleep over people loving or hating it......but your hatred over this is already influencing others to consider dropping off, which is really silly.

At the end of the day, this is not the Godfather trilogy. As others have pointed out, it's a post-apocalyptic zombie story (where the story is about the people and not the zombies)

I saw the blogs after playing Pt 2.........and it's painfully obvious a huge chunk of the hate is related to gay characters.

If that's your thing - cool.

I enjoyed Pt 2 - and that doesnt make me right or wrong - it's art, and art is subjective.

Would you care to stay on point?

Spoiler!

Would you like to provide your own special insight as to how it makes sense for a seasoned survivor like Joel to just blurt out his name and where he's from within 10 seconds of meeting armed strangers?

Would you like to explain how it makes sense to you that Abby would leave the only two witnesses to Joel's murder alive, especially one that is CLEARLY close to the person she was just beating to death, and she's swearing to kill her?

Would you care to explain how it makes sense to you that after Ellie kills her way to her next confrontation with Abby, CLEARLY making good on her threats to try to kill her, that after beating her down and having her defenseless, she AGAIN simply walks off leaving the door open for more of her group to die when she attempts to kill her again?

Would you care to explain how it made sense to you that after slaughtering countless mooks, friends to Abby, pets, and a pregnant woman, that only if she murders Abby, will Ellie become just like her?

The whole ****ing revenge story for Ellie was the equivalent of jerking off and then refusing to finish. The least they could have done was give the player the option to kill or spare Abby.

Instead, the whole thing was a giant waste of time and Ellie looks like a giant ****ing dumbass after surrendering her life with Dina to finish this **** once and for all, and in the end she just decides nah I'm good.

You slaughtered half of Seattle, kid. One more ain't gonna move the needle.

There was 0 issue with Ellie being gay, except for the idiotic way that it is crammed down the players throats. Hey Joel and Tommy are missing. Wanna get high and scissor? Oh sure why not!

Like, we get it. She's gay. We don't need to be tapped on the shoulder and reminded every ten minutes. Just like we didn't need Manny to try to put a post apocalyptic trademark on the word pendejo for us to remember he's Mexican.

[DJJasonp]

Originally Posted by Wallcrawler

Would you care to stay on point?

Spoiler!

Would you like to provide your own special insight as to how it makes sense for a seasoned survivor like Joel to just blurt out his name and where he's from within 10 seconds of meeting armed strangers? Joel was most concerned with his community burning to the ground and potentially losing friends/family.

Would you like to explain how it makes sense to you that Abby would leave the only two witnesses to Joel's murder alive, especially one that is CLEARLY close to the person she was just beating to death, and she's swearing to kill her? It was stated multiple times that their group does not kill. They were making an exception for Abby/Joel. You could see the others not being happy with even Joel dying, but Abby was the alpha

Would you care to explain how it makes sense to you that after Ellie kills her way to her next confrontation with Abby, CLEARLY making good on her threats to try to kill her, that after beating her down and having her defenseless, she AGAIN simply walks off leaving the door open for more of her group to die when she attempts to kill her again? The realization that continuing to revenge kill will keep the merry go round she's on perpetual, leading to more friends/family dying

Would you care to explain how it made sense to you that after slaughtering countless mooks, friends to Abby, pets, and a pregnant woman, that only if she murders Abby, will Ellie become just like her? that's what it took for her to realize it?

The whole ****ing revenge story for Ellie was the equivalent of jerking off and then refusing to finish. The least they could have done was give the player the option to kill or spare Abby. [I]Wont argue with this, though it didnt bother me as much as it does you apparently.[/I]

Instead, the whole thing was a giant waste of time and Ellie looks like a giant ****ing dumbass after surrendering her life with Dina to finish this **** once and for all, and in the end she just decides nah I'm good. Again, realization that it was never going to end if she killed her

You slaughtered half of Seattle, kid. One more ain't gonna move the needle.

There was 0 issue with Ellie being gay, except for the idiotic way that it is crammed down the players throats. Hey Joel and Tommy are missing. Wanna get high and scissor? Oh sure why not!

Like, we get it. She's gay. We don't need to be tapped on the shoulder and reminded every ten minutes. Just like we didn't need Manny to try to put a post apocalyptic trademark on the word pendejo for us to remember he's Mexican. This bothers you. I get it. While it's not my cup of tea, it was much more of a minor thing to me than it was to you

I'm taking the time to respond, though I know it's not going to change your mind on anything........and that's ok. Like I said, different strokes......

[BlackOp]

The first season was quite possibly the most overrated show is recent memory.

There was absolutely not one single element of it that hadnt been done before and better...even the first few seasons of Walking Dead were better.

The lead actress is not only unattractive but not really even very talented...the other guy was really bad in Gladiator2.

I tried watching the first episode of season 2 and didn't make it past the first scene of the five people standing in a park. They had every race represented in that group and the dialogue was stiff...it was a total DEI fail that felt fake.

I'm trying to figure out what the appeal is other than to fans of the video game...as an impartial viewer, i'll be sitting season two out...was indifferent to season one. I'll spare myself the ugly "inclusive" lesbian scenes...

[notorious]

This is quite freaky. Yesterday I was walking up to my house and saw that this had fallen out of our massive elm tree:





Looks very similar to the infected. Yikes.

[Hammock Parties]

now look at the ingredients for mushroom coffee

[dlphg9]

Originally Posted by BlackOp

The first season was quite possibly the most overrated show is recent memory.

There was absolutely not one single element of it that hadnt been done before and better...even the first few seasons of Walking Dead were better.

The lead actress is not only unattractive but not really even very talented...the other guy was really bad in Gladiator2.

I tried watching the first episode of season 2 and didn't make it past the first scene of the five people standing in a park. They had every race represented in that group and the dialogue was stiff...it was a total DEI fail that felt fake.

I'm trying to figure out what the appeal is other than to fans of the video game...as an impartial viewer, i'll be sitting season two out...was indifferent to season one. I'll spare myself the ugly "inclusive" lesbian scenes...

You're a dumb ****. Season one was fantastic and season 2 has been just as good.

[KC_Connection]

Bizarre amount of hate in this thread for what has been a good show so far with some top tier episodes (S1E3, S1E9 and S2E2 stand out prominently).

I’ll keep enjoying it myself for now and I can’t say I really give a shit what Bella Ramsay looks like.

[ThaVirus]

Wallcrawler is a miserable ****er

[Sassy Squatch]

Yeah, still having THAT amount of vitriol is something else.

[Deberg_1990]

Originally Posted by BlackOp

The first season was quite possibly the most overrated show is recent memory.

There was absolutely not one single element of it that hadnt been done before and better...even the first few seasons of Walking Dead were better.

The lead actress is not only unattractive but not really even very talented...the other guy was really bad in Gladiator2.

I tried watching the first episode of season 2 and didn't make it past the first scene of the five people standing in a park. They had every race represented in that group and the dialogue was stiff...it was a total DEI fail that felt fake.

I'm trying to figure out what the appeal is other than to fans of the video game...as an impartial viewer, i'll be sitting season two out...was indifferent to season one. I'll spare myself the ugly "inclusive" lesbian scenes...

If it’s so bad then why do you continue to watch it? 🤷*♂️

[DJJasonp]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

Bizarre amount of hate in this thread for what has been a good show so far with some top tier episodes (S1E3, S1E9 and S2E2 stand out prominently).

I’ll keep enjoying it myself for now and I can’t say I really give a shit what Bella Ramsay looks like.

Same here.

As I stated before, most movie or tv show adaptations of video games are unpolished turds

Its nice to watch something where they’ve gotten everything right as it relates to the experience of playing the game.

Now, if they ever do the same for Bioshock, I can leave this earth happy!

[Wallcrawler]

Originally Posted by DJJasonp

I'm taking the time to respond, though I know it's not going to change your mind on anything........and that's ok. Like I said, different strokes......

Ok, so greatest story ever told in a videogame to you, DOES in fact have inexplicably stupid ass decisions made by multiple characters.

As you're incapable of explaining how any of those decisions made any sense to even just you personally my point stands that they're absolutely braindead.

So unfortunately, that whole greatest videogame story ever told is a big load of horseshit from simps of the guy that booted Amy Hennig from the company so he could turn it into a DEI factory.

And dilphag9, yes season 1 was good because it was based on a phenomenal game that fans begged for a sequel to for 7 years. Funny how that works out if you slept through cause and effect in school I suppose. Now, either read the spoilers which you claimed you didn't want to see, so you actually know what the **** the discussion is about, or run along and ponder the ongoing burning question on whether you'd rather have sex with your mom or your girlfriend.

Come to think of it, guys like you who ponder that type of shit are Cuckmann's target audience anyway, so you'll probably rabidly defend this trash regardless lmao.

[DJJasonp]

Originally Posted by Wallcrawler

Ok, so greatest story ever told in a videogame to you, DOES in fact have inexplicably stupid ass decisions made by multiple characters.

As you're incapable of explaining how any of those decisions made any sense to even just you personally my point stands that they're absolutely braindead.

So unfortunately, that whole greatest videogame story ever told is a big load of horseshit from simps of the guy that booted Amy Hennig from the company so he could turn it into a DEI factory.

And dilphag9, yes season 1 was good because it was based on a phenomenal game that fans begged for a sequel to for 7 years. Funny how that works out if you slept through cause and effect in school I suppose. Now, either read the spoilers which you claimed you didn't want to see, so you actually know what the **** the discussion is about, or run along and ponder the ongoing burning question on whether you'd rather have sex with your mom or your girlfriend.

Come to think of it, guys like you who ponder that type of shit are Cuckmann's target audience anyway, so you'll probably rabidly defend this trash regardless lmao.

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.

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by Wallcrawler

Ok, so greatest story ever told in a videogame to you, DOES in fact have inexplicably stupid ass decisions made by multiple characters.

As you're incapable of explaining how any of those decisions made any sense to even just you personally my point stands that they're absolutely braindead.

So unfortunately, that whole greatest videogame story ever told is a big load of horseshit from simps of the guy that booted Amy Hennig from the company so he could turn it into a DEI factory.

And dilphag9, yes season 1 was good because it was based on a phenomenal game that fans begged for a sequel to for 7 years. Funny how that works out if you slept through cause and effect in school I suppose. Now, either read the spoilers which you claimed you didn't want to see, so you actually know what the **** the discussion is about, or run along and ponder the ongoing burning question on whether you'd rather have sex with your mom or your girlfriend.

Come to think of it, guys like you who ponder that type of shit are Cuckmann's target audience anyway, so you'll probably rabidly defend this trash regardless lmao.

I have not seen the rest of season 2. They very well could complete the hail mary and make it work but I have always been against purists when it comes to movies having to match the book verbatim. Especially the sequels. Just make a good movie or show and don't tank your show to be "pure" the the story.

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

If it’s so bad then why do you continue to watch it? ��*♂️

I cant speak to who you were quoting but I watch because everyone tells me it is the best tv program ever created. Many times they are right, like Breaking Bad. I just feel this show is just overrated compared to the attention it gets. Zombie shows are so played out.