Hollywood has tailored video video games for many years, however the execution has at all times been decidedly blended at greatest. HBO Max hopes to alter that for good and has grand ambitions with the Naughty Dog/Sony PlayStation authentic online game franchise “The Last of Us.” The status cable firm is hoping for a extra compelling and grownup expertise for audiences by including terrific behind-the-camera expertise, a bunch of seasoned actors, and putting them on this harsh post-apocalypse panorama that can gas a dramatic story. Given that “The Last of Us” has been lengthy hailed for its narrative and character work, primarily utilizing movement seize for performances, what we’ve seen so removed from “The Last Of Us” appears like a way more intense and actual survival sequence, as an alternative of the shlockier model, like “The Walking Dead.”
A brand-new trailer dropped on-line throughout the CCXP22 panel in São Paulo, Brazil, the place many studios, streamers, and cable firms, are exhibiting off their most vital items of style I.P. This new footage showcases extra of the characters and the threats that Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey), the primary protagonists, will encounter on their harmful journey throughout a world the place a virus has created contaminated people known as Clickers which can be interested in sound.
“The Last of Us” is written and govt produced by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckman; the latter was the artistic drive behind the video video games, the previous, the Emmy-winning writer-producer of HBO’s acclaimed sequence “Chernobyl,” which bodes nicely.
The solid assembled for “The Last of Us” consists of Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Gabriel Luna as Tommy, Anna Torv as Tess, Nico Parker as Sarah, Murray Bartlett as Frank, Nick Offerman as Bill, Melanie Lynskey as Kathleen, Storm Reid as Riley, Merle Dandridge as Marlene, Jeffrey Pierce as Perry, Lamar Johnson as Henry, Keivonn Woodard as Sam, Graham Greene as Marlon, and Elaine Miles as Florence. Ashley Johnson and Troy Baker can even have roles.
HBO Max has additionally supplied the next plot synopsis for the sequence:
“The Last of Us” takes place 20 years after trendy civilization has been destroyed. Joel, a hardened survivor, is employed to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old lady, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What begins as a small job quickly turns into a brutal and heartbreaking journey as they each should traverse the U.S. and rely on one another for survival.
The present will start airing on HBO and can be capable of stream on HBO Max when it premieres on January 15. You can watch that new trailer beneath.