The Last Of Us EXPLAINED 🧟 #shorts

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Published on January 15, 2023 6:15:02 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxqTbvRxkzk

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The Last of Us: Left Behind (2014)

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Nine years after first announcing that they’d be making a movie out of 2013 video game The Last of Us, and seven since those plans collapsed, Sony is now bringing the sneaky and scary survival horror game to HBO in January 2023, with some familiar names helping out.

The Last of Us is set in 2033, 20 years after the world’s population has been decimated by a fungal infestation of the brain that initially makes its victims violently insane and feral, and later destroys their eyes, forcing them to use echo-location to find people — and rip their throats out. Here’s everything we know so far about the highly-anticipated adaptation.

In The Last of Us, tough-guy survivor Joel Miller is hired to escort a teenager named Ellie through the wasteland and to some doctors who believe that Ellie may be the cure to the plague. As they make their way from what used to be Boston to what’s left of Salt Lake City, they run into the usual post-apocalyptic tropes, including roving groups of infected, a couple of cannibals, some huge jerks, and a giraffe who’s escaped from a zoo and is getting out while the getting is good.

While the show will mostly follow the plot of the first game, it is expected to incorporate elements from The Last of Us Part II, which is set five years after the first game. That said, it actually seems more likely that they’ll pull elements from The Last of Us: Left Behind, an Ellie-centric prequel set before the events of the first game.

But the series is also expected to expand upon the game’s story, including, apparently, some elements that were previously cut from the game. In a July 2020 interview with the BBC Sounds’ “Must Watch” webcast, series co-creator and writer Craig Mazin said of his Naughty Dog collaborator on the series, “Neil [Druckmann], at one point, he was like, ‘You know, there’s one thing we were talking about [doing in the first game] for a while,’ and then he told me what it was, and I was like — gonk! — ‘OK, jaw-drop, that’s going in. We have to do that.'”

Mazin also said, “So the changes that we’re making are designed to fill things out and expand. Not to undo, but rather to enhance,” adding that, “It’s not like we just decided, ‘Well, wouldn’t it be cool if there’s one episode where Joel and Ellie get on motorcycles and confront a motorcycle gang?’ There’s no episodic nonsense here. The things that are new and enhancing of the storyline that we’re doing are connected in organic, serious ways that I think fans of the game and newcomers alike will appreciate.”

That said, in the show’s first full-length trailer (top of the page), there was a brief glimpse of some men in the winter, which seems like it comes from a part rather late in the first game, suggesting that this first season may encompass the entire game, and not half of it or less.

This trailer also gave us more time with (and dialog from) Joel, Ellie, and other characters, as well as a parting shot of a Bloater (someone who’s been infected long enough for the fungus to cover their body in a hard shell), but otherwise didn’t reveal anything we didn’t already know.

Even so, The Last of Us still seems like it’s taking a lot of cues from the game. Both the teaser trailer and the HBO sizzle trailer include moments that look like scenes from the game, and even seem to employ the same or similar camera angles. These include images of the chaos when the outbreak begins, shots of a destroyed city, a shot of Joel carrying Ellie, and another of a survivor named Bill introducing himself. There’s even one, of Ellie and her friend Riley, that looks to be from The Last of Us: Left Behind.

There was also, in the teaser trailer, our first (albeit brief) glimpse of a clicker, one of the aforementioned infected who’s been blinded by the fungus destroying their eyes from within.

Fittingly, the cast announced so far includes a few video game veterans, including a certain zombie one we all know. For the role of father figure Joel, the producers chose Pedro Pascal (Game of Thrones, The Mandalorian), who has interactive experience from voicing Paolo in the 2016 sneaky action game Dishonored 2, while Ellie will be played by Pascal’s Thrones co-star Bella Ramsey, who voiced Freya in Doctor Who Infinity: The Dalek Invasion of Time.

Also joining the cast are such TV and video game vets as Gabriel Luna (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Terminator: Dark Fate), who appeared in the game BlackSite: Area 51, has been cast as Joel’s younger brother Tommy, while Anna Torv (Fringe, Mindhunter; pictured above), who voiced Nariko in the action game Heavenly Sword, and in the eponymous animated movie based on that game, will play Joel’s smuggling partner, Tess.

Other actors slated to appear in the show include Euphoria’s Storm Reid as Ellie’s friend Riley; Yellowjacket’s Melanie Lynskey as Kathleen, a new character who leads a revolutionary group of out of Kansas City.

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