The Last of Us Series Adapts the First Game, But Deviates Greatly Sometimes

During SXSW 2021, IGN managed to speak to Naughty Dog'south Neil Druckmann about the upcoming The Last of Us series in production at HBO. According to the co-creator of the serial, the first season will adapt the first game, and though it stays pretty close sometimes, other times information technology'll deviate greatly because of the different narrative medium.

We talked at length that season 1 of The Last of The states serial is going to be the first game. As far as the superficial things, like should a character vesture the same plaid shirt or the same red shirt? They might or might not appear in it, that's way less of import to the states than getting the core of who these people are and the core of their journeying. Things sometimes stay pretty close. It's funny to come across my dialogue there from the games in HBO scripts. And sometimes they deviate profoundly to much better consequence because we are dealing with a dissimilar medium.

For case, in the game, at that place's and then much action yous accept to take to railroad train the actor about mechanics. You accept to accept more violence and more than spectacle to some caste than yous would need on a TV evidence considering you don't need to train people on how to utilize a gun. So that's something that'due south been really different, and HBO's been smashing in pushing us to move away from hardcore action and focus more on the drama of the character. Some of my favorite episodes then far have deviated greatly from the story, and I can't wait for people to meet them.

While we're waiting for the first season of HBO's The Last of The states serial to drop, check out this amazing deepfake video of the first game with the faces of Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey grafted onto Joel and Ellie.