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While creators Craig Mazin and Naughty Dog visionary Neil Druckmann made it abundantly clear that season one of HBO's The Last of Us will cover the story of the first game while expanding its mythos in the process, the 2020 follow-up in Part II will be a whole other can of worms That's how Mazin[...]

And that's exactly what happened today, with the cable giant green-lighting a second season of Neil Druckmann & Craig Mazin's Pedro Pascal (Joel) & Bella Ramsey (Ellie)-starring The Last of Us. Image: HBO "Craig and Neil, alongside EP Carolyn Strauss, and the rest of our phenomenal cast and crew, have defined a genre with their masterful debut[...]

Any time a popular IP gets adapted to another medium, it's natural to expect changes to properly fit the format, and HBO's The Last of Us is no exception It's something that creators Craig Mazin and Naughty Dog game visionary Neil Druckmann are painfully aware of Following the release of episode two, "Infected," the two[...]

When Craig Mazin signed on to co-create The Last of Us for HBO alongside Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann, they tackled the Herculean task of compressing 15 hours' worth of content into a nine-episode season while expanding the PlayStation game's mythos Among the missed opportunities the duo had to scale back was Tess, played by Anna[...]

Our line-up for this morning includes Aubrey Plaza & Sam Smith doing right by NBC's Saturday Night Live, the comics creators behind Amazon's Invincible breaking down the Season 2 teaser, Paramount+ revealing that a Star Trek: Picard Season 3 trailer is dropping next Sunday during CBS & NFL's AFC Championship Game, Paul Lazenby (Atom-Man) confirming[...]

Merle Dandridge earns the distinction as the only actress in HBO's The Last of Us to reprise her role as Firefly leader Marlene from the Sony & Naughty Dog video games Why is that? Let's break down a few things First, the original game was released in 2013, and Dandridge's character is already an adult,[...]

So it's pretty safe to say, based on the numbers released by HBO/HBO Max this, that a lot of us were curious to see if Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin's Pedro Pascal (Joel) & Bella Ramsey (Ellie)-starring The Last of Us lived up to its hype When the smoke settled on Sunday night's debut, the series[...]

While you never want to jump the gun on these sorts of things, after one episode, it would appear that HBO has a serious awards season contender in Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin's Pedro Pascal (Joel) & Bella Ramsey (Ellie)-starring The Last of Us. And based on what critics & viewers are saying, it would appear[...]

Our line-up for this morning includes The CW dropping an attention-grabbing season trailer for Superman & Lois, HBO's The Last of Us starting off impressively strong, us sharing our thoughts on the first episode of the live-action Three-Body Problem series adaptation, NBC's Night Court revealing who's guest starring (and who offered their blessing), Amazon's The[...]

When Neil Druckmann recruited Craig Mazin to adapt Sony and Naughty Dog's The Last of Us to an HBO series, there were some obvious questions on how it would differentiate itself from its other zombie apocalypse contemporaries At the heart of the series are Joel and Ellie, played by Game of Thrones alum Pedro Pascal[...]

The first thing I need you to know is that this isn't a review of Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin's Pedro Pascal (Joel) & Bella Ramsey (Ellie)-starring adaptation of The Last of Us that's debuting tonight We have someone else running point on the HBO/HBO Max series, so their thoughts will be going live after the[...]

In three days, viewers will finally get their chance to feast on Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin's Pedro Pascal (Joel) & Bella Ramsey (Ellie)-starring The Last of Us. To keep the excitement levels going for the highly-anticipated HBO series, the cast has been hitting the late-night circuit to promote the series… and they brought preview clips[...]

When HBO decided to adapt Sony and Naughty Dog's videogame franchise The Last of Us as a TV series, there were obvious creative challenges on how it would translate on the small screen Would it be more action-oriented like the games, or would it expand more on the universe providing more character exposition? At the[...]

HBO Max is launching The Last of Us Podcast, the series' official companion podcast hosted by Troy Baker (who voiced Joel in the video game) Premiering in tandem with the show on Sunday, January 15, the podcast will release new episodes each Sunday (nine episodes in total.) Source: HBO In The Last of Us Podcast, Baker sits down with series[...]

If there's one thing the HBO adaptation of The Last of Us is able to expand upon the original 2013 Naughty Dog video game is the Cordyceps fungal infection that caused the apocalypse Given the game's original popularity on Sony's PlayStation 3, ND not only remastered the game for PlayStation 4 in 2014 but also[...]

While The Last of Us creators Craig Mazin & Neil Druckmann have no intentions of doing the ambitious world-building that George R R Martin's Game of Thrones or AMC's The Walking Dead franchise, the duo wanted to take the opportunity to tell a more complete story regarding the Cordyceps fungal plague from the original Naughty[...]

His latest is as Tommy, Joel's (Pedro Pascal) younger brother, in the HBO series adaptation The Last of Us, based on the Naughty Dog Sony PlayStation videogame franchise of the same name The role was originally voiced by Jeffrey Pierce in the 2013 game, who will play Perry, an original character for the live-action series[...]

With January 15th right around the corner, HBO is offering a different approach when it comes to previewing Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin's Pedro Pascal (Joel) & Bella Ramsey (Ellie)-starring The Last of Us Up until now, the cable network's done a pretty great job of selling us on the dangers that Joel & Ellie face[...]

Our line-up for this morning includes Stephen Amell returning as Arrow hero Oliver Queen for The CW's The Flash Season 9, James Gunn debunking reports that Wonder Woman isn't a DC Studios priority, NJPW's Wrestle Kingdom 17 bringing the debut of "The CEO" Mercedes Moné, HBO's The Last of Us EPs explaining why the series[...]

With only 11 days to go until Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin's Pedro Pascal (Joel) & Bella Ramsey (Ellie)-starring The Last of Us hits HBO & HBO Max screens, to say that fans of the video game franchise are more than a bit curious about what Druckmann & Mazin have planned would be an understatement[...]

With less than three weeks to go until Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin's Pedro Pascal (Joel) & Bella Ramsey (Ellie)-starring The Last of Us hits HBO & HBO Max screens, Mazin has made it pretty clear why this video game adaptation has an advantage over previous video game adaptations "It's an open-and-shut case: this is[...]

Would you like to win a chance to see a special screening of The Last of Us live in London? All you need is a Twitter account to take part in this giveaway Sky is offering up an opportunity for people in the UK to check out the first episode on January 11th ahead of[...]

With less than a month to go until Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin's Pedro Pascal (Joel) & Bella Ramsey (Ellie)-starring The Last of Us gets unleashed upon our screens, what do you think about taking another look at the series? Well, we're glad you were more than cool with the idea because we already have[...]

Look, no one's saying that there's a ton of pressure on Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin's Pedro Pascal (Joel) & Bella Ramsey (Ellie)-starring The Last of Us. But to be honest? There is Because you have the usual social media gatekeepers who automatically push back on anything being done to adapt their beloved video game franchise[...]

Courtesy of CCXP 2022, last weekend saw the premiere of the official trailer for Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin's Pedro Pascal (Joel) & Bella Ramsey (Ellie)-starring The Last of Us. And it's pretty safe to say that Druckmann, Mazin, Pascal, Ramsey, Gabriel Luna (Tommy), and Merle Dandridge (Marlene) did a fine job getting folks excited for[...]

Our line-up for this morning includes Amazon dropping a bloody first-look preview of The Boys spinoff Gen V (with some familiar faces), HBO releasing the official trailer for The Last of Us, HBO Max's Titans showrunner Greg Walker talking Conner Luthor & Jinx, Paramount+'s 1923 stars Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren & Peter Stormare discussing the[...]

Last month, we learned that Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin's Pedro Pascal (Joel) & Bella Ramsey (Ellie)-starring The Last of Us would have a significant presence at this weekend's Comic Con Experience (CCXP) in São Paulo, Brazil The first few days saw the show's activation on display, as well as a press conference with Druckmann, Mazin,[...]

TV eyeing a deal with Amazon for animated DCU content, Netflix's Daredevil star Deborah Ann Woll discussing working with Vincent D'Onofrio, Netflix's Wednesday scoring big in its first week & with plans for the future, The '90s Show producers explaining how the That '70s Show sequel series came about, HBO's The Last of Us dropping[...]

Last week, viewers were treated to the newest poster for Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin's Pedro Pascal (Joel) & Bella Ramsey (Ellie)-starring The Last of Us Now, HBO is giving them a chance to get up close & personal with the cast via a series of character profile posters released earlier today And don't forget that[...]

Though Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin's Pedro Pascal (Joel) & Bella Ramsey (Ellie)-starring The Last of Us still has some time to go before it hits our screens, we learned last week that we won't have to wait until then to learn more about what we can expect But before we get to that, we have[...]