THE LAST OF US SERIES. The series adapting the video game The Last of Us is highly anticipated on HBO. During the Summer Game Fest, a conference dedicated to new video game releases, we learned that the filming of the series was finished.
[Mis à jour le 13 juin 2022 à 16h58] Neil Druckmann, co-president of Naughty Dog, the creator studio of The Last of Us video game, spoke on June 9, 2022 during the broadcast of the Summer Game Fest conference to give some news on future releases around the license. and in particular the future HBO series. He announced there that the filming of the series, carried by Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey in the main roles of Joel and Ellie, ended on June 10. This gives a vague indication of the release date that we can expect for the series on HBO. We therefore imagine that the series could land in early 2023 on the encrypted channel in the United States.
Other big news, we learned during this speech that Troy Baker and Ashley Johnson, who lent their voices to the characters of Joel and Ellie in the two video game episodes of The Last of Us, would also be there. Their roles, however, have not been disclosed at this stage, but Neil Druckmann, who directed one of the episodes of the series, promises that these are not silly appearances in the blink of an eye but real roles in which the two actors lived up to their fame. Last information released from the Summer Game Fest, an official image in which we can see Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey. Check it out below while you wait for a trailer.
What do we know about The Last of Us series?
This is one of the ambitious future projects of the HBO channel in the United States, the adaptation of The Last of Us definitely seems to be on track. After the announcement of its production team, HBO has now confirmed the casting of the duo Joel / Ellie, main characters of The Last of Us video games. Known in particular for the role of Oberyn Martell in Game of Thrones and the Mandalorian in the Star Wars series from Disney+ The Mandalorian, Pedro Pascal will play the role of Joel in the series The Last of Us. He will be accompanied in the role of Ellie by Bella Ramsey, best known for her interpretation of Lyanna Mormont in the Game of Thrones series. The information appeared on the Deadline site before being confirmed by Pedro Pascal on social networks.
What are The Last of Us games?
The Last of Us is a diptych of video games developed by Naughty Dog exclusively for Sony Playstation consoles. Twenty years after the explosion of a pandemic, we embody Joel, a seasoned survivor marked by heavy trauma, who is entrusted with an important mission: to escort a young woman, Ellie, out of a quarantine zone. and cross the United States to hope to find a cure. Together, they will have to rely on each other to survive in a world where humans and infected represent constant dangers.
What technical team behind The Last of Us series?
The Last of Us series is to be broadcast on the American cable channel HBO. Craig Mazin, creator and writer of the Chernobyl series, and Neil Druckmann, creative director and co-writer of The Last of Us games, will serve as executive producers and writers for the series. On the production side, HBO has hired Russian filmmaker Kantemir Balagov to shoot the pilot episode of the series. His second feature, Une Grande Fille, won the Best Director Award in the Un Certain Regard category at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. For now, the series The Last of Us does not yet have a release date. broadcast on HBO.