THE LAST OF US SERIES. While the series The Last of Us is preparing its thunderous arrival in the United States, in France it is dead calm. And for good reason, the series is not about to arrive with us. We explain to you.
[Mis à jour le 3 janvier 2022 à 14h54] If there is a series that we find in all the tops of the most anticipated productions of the year, it is this one. Adapted from the 2013 video game of the same name, The Last of Us is the new HBO series which intends to take the world by storm from January 15, 2023. The world, yes, but not France because the agreement that existed between OCS and the house of Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon and others ended on January 1, 2023, thus leaving the previous HBO series without a French broadcaster and its next productions without a drop-off point in France. It was rumored some time ago that Prime Video could become the home of HBO series in France while HBO Max, the official streaming platform of the American channel, arrives in France. Contacted by Linternaute, the press service of Prime Video France announces that the platform will not broadcast The Last of Us. Warner Bros. France has also tweeted that the series will arrive “soon” with us, which officially confirms that the series will not be ready in France at the same time as the American broadcast. To be clear, there is therefore no French broadcast date for the series The Last of Us at this stage. In fact, while the whole world will watch the first episode of The Last of Us from January 15 on HBO and HBO Max or via partner broadcasters, French screens will remain very black. Unless users turn to other less recommendable channels…
During the weekend of the São Paulo Comic Con, which has become a major studio meeting this year, the American encrypted channel HBO lifted the veil on a trailer in good and due form for the serial adaptation of the video game The Last of Us. We discover Pedro Pascal in the role of Joel, a man who lost his daughter during the apocalypse and who must now lead a young woman named Ellie (Bella Ramsey) to the Eastern United States as she is the only hope of finding a cure for the virus that is hitting the human race and turning them into hungry creatures.
As a reminder, HBO has confirmed that the first episode of its series The Last of Us will be broadcast on January 15, 2023. So there are only a few days left to wait before discovering this series adapted from a video game that has become cult and produced, among others, by one of its creators Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin, who distinguished himself on HBO a few years ago with the captivating Chernobyl series. Something to reassure us about the future quality of this series, already among the most anticipated of the year 2023. For the occasion, HBO has even lifted the veil on a poster for its series that we invite you to discover here -below.
To celebrate the Last of Us Day (September 26) with great fanfare, the American channel HBO unveiled a nearly two-minute trailer for its The Last of Us series adapted from the Naughty Dog video game enjoyed by both players than criticism. In this trailer, we can (re)discover the heavy atmosphere of these post-apocalyptic United States where humans are fighting against the cordiceps epidemic which transforms them into infected on the lookout for the slightest sound. In the video game The Last of Us, Joel (Pedro Pascal) discovers that a young girl named Ellie (Bella Ramsey) could be the key to not only surviving the epidemic but also ending it. Together, they will go on an extremely dangerous quest across the country. The trailer for The Last of Us series, which we invite you to discover below in original version, is marked by several shots and sequences that are very reminiscent of the video game, an opportunity to recall that the series wishes to be part of the not from the video game but also that Neil Druckmann, creative director and screenwriter of the game, co-created the series with Craig Mazin.
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. Enough to confirm that the output would come out rather at the beginning of next year.
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. However, their roles 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.
What cast for The Last of Us series?
The adaptation of The Last of Us is one of the ambitious future projects of the HBO channel in the United States. The cast of the Joel/Ellie duo, main characters of The Last of Us video games, is official and consists of Pedro Pascal on one side and Bella Ramsey on the other. 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 portrayal of Lyanna Mormont in the Game of Thrones series.
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.