One of the most popular and critically acclaimed video games, The Last of Us, was a property many fans hoped would be adapted on the big screen. However, todays’s news may be better as the popular game is set to receive a small screen adaptation on HBO
Craig Mazin, creator of HBO’s Emmy winning Chernobyl series, is working on the adaptation with Neil Druckmann, the writer and creative director of the game.
Along with Mazin and Druckmann, Carolyn Strauss, one of the executive producers of Game of Thrones, is also executive producing the series.
The game is a
“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 the 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.” The game was met with widespread acclaim and became one of the best-selling video games of all time.
There had been rumors of a film adaptation all the way back to 2014 as ScreenGems was set to make a Last of Us movie, with Druckmann writing and Sam Raimi producing.
