In a few weeks the time has come: On January 16, 2023, The Last of Us will start the long-awaited Series adaptation of the award-winning video game franchise by Naughty Dog on Sky and WOW. Brilliant characters and a world that makes other zombie apocalypses look like an amusement park: The HBO series could become the horror highlight of 2023 and provide the perfect replacement for The Walking Dead. Or does The Last of Us fail when trying to build on the masterful template?
That’s what the dystopian horror series The Last of Us is all about
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The series takes place 20 years after the outbreak of a mysterious fungal infections that turn infected people into zombies. Former US cities have become quarantine zones controlled by the military. This is also where Joel (Pedro Pascal) lives, who struggles to make ends meet as a smuggler. Until an assignment changes his life.
Joel is tasked with smuggling teenage girl Ellie (Bella Ramsey) out of the quarantine zone and into the hideout of a persecuted rebel organization. But between the unequal duo and their goal are not only thousands of kilometers full of infected people, but also the true monsters of the dystopian world: People.
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The Last of Us as a series follows the events of the video game series of the same name. Moviepilot Editor-in-Chief Lisa Ludwig and Rae Grimm, Head of GamePro and Head of Publishing at Webedia Gaming, discuss spoiler-free why The Last of Us is so important to themwhat they’re hoping for from Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin’s series adaptation – and what still worries them a bit.
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