The Last Of Us Series Clicks It’s Way To HBO Max - Season 2 Delayed Cos Pedro Pascal In High Demand

Great potential here....hope it turns out well! Especially now that I’ve given up on Walking Dead.
 
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I know pretty much nothing about the story in the game so I would definitely give the show a go. I’ve heard the opening to game was crazy I just stayed away from spoilers for some reason.
 


Craig’s next series will be The Last of Us for HBO. Would you want to direct that series and collaborate with him again?

JR:
I’m an executive producer on it and attached to it. It’s an ongoing TV series. So that’s not something that I will be able to take on to that extent, but I’m part of that series and I will be directing at least the pilot. Then we’ll see how it goes on further. I mean, both Craig and I, we are working with each other again and we will work with each other on other things because we like each other.

What do you make of the similarities and differences between adapting historical and pre-existing characters?

JR:
That’s a very pertinent question on a lot of levels. You have for instance The Last of Us with Craig, in which you have a video game character who’s very much top of mind with anybody who’s ever played that game. More than that, they know exactly what he looks like, how he talks, how he acts, and so on and so forth. Another project that I’m in development with is based on the book The Magus by John Fowles and this is another sort of limited series. There you have a fictional character that everybody who has read the book will have their own impressionist idea on how he moves, behaves, looks, and all of that. On the other hand, he’s only ever been represented on pages in a book – meaning that there is no right or wrong. Except for an idea of who he is because it becomes more impressionist again.

So with the The Last of Us, this is something that we’re discussing. We’re having weekly calls, Craig and I and also Neil [Druckmann] who created the game, about various approaches and how to deal with that. How to deal with the fact that a video game character is way further than a character from a book. But also it’s more different to deal with than a real person. For instance, Valery Legasov from Chernobyl because nobody had ever seen or heard of him, it wasn’t pivotal to honor anything of that. I’m being brief because of course we wanted to portray him as true to reality as we could. On the other hand, there were no preconceived ideas of it. With something like The Last of Us, it’s going to be a very different story. This is something that we spent a lot of time talking about here and in the early development stages of this process. There are a lot of things to take into consideration and a lot of decisions and choices to be made in various ways without saying anything more about it.
 


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One person not involved with the show is former True Detective star Mahershala Ali, whom geek websites on Wednesday had pegged as having an offer. Ali did circle the role, say sources, but a deal ever came to fruition.
 
Boy, as big of a fan as I am of Pascal, I’m not keen on either of these casting choices.

Hopefully they know what they’re doing.
 
Pedro is kinda perfect, he’s got the scruffy voice and can pull off an American accent on point, and he’s got something to base his maternal instincts now...in a way they’re kinda telling a similar story
 
So it's confirmed now that Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey will play the role of Joel and Ellie respectively. It will be HBO. I'm excited to see how the pilot episode will be. Not sure how these castings will be though in relation to the game characters.

 
ESO, Fallout 76 and possible more that is built on microtransactions seems logical to continue to support and release sequels and also games already in deep development... I'm having a hard time seeing them release future Dooms and wolfensteins etc to playstation though.
Eventually Sony will have to cave in and let MS release their games on xcloud through an app on playstation... They'll not survive otherwise, too many exclusives to lose and their streaming service is lol at this point.
I don't see them making anything exclusive. Doing so massively shrinks sales, profits, mindshare, etc.

Xcloud isn't good enough yet either. When are MS upgrading the Xcloud blades to XSX?
 


We talked at length [that season 1 of the show is going to be [the first game]. As far as the superficial things, like should [a character] wear the same plaid shirt or the same red shirt? They might or might not appear in it, that’s way less important to us than getting the core of who these people are and the core of their journey.

Things sometimes stay pretty close. It’s funny to see my dialogue there from the games in HBO scripts. And sometimes they deviate greatly to much better effect because we are dealing with a different medium.
 
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I swear to Geralt if they make a second season of the show that revolves around the second game I will buy another copy and burn it to show them who's boss 😎
 
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