![]() In an interview with The New Yorker, creator Neil Druckmann recalled how, in 2014, a film adaptation fell through because executives wanted to make it bigger and "sexier", like the Brad Pitt film World War Z. It follows a hardened smuggler named Joel, played in the show by Pedro Pascal, who has been tasked with escorting across the country Ellie (Bella Ramsey), a teenage girl with an apparent rare immunity to the infection. ![]() Originally released in 2013, The Last of Us is set amidst the ravages of a post-apocalyptic US, 20 years after a parasitic fungus called Cordyceps has turned most of the population into mindless monsters. ![]() Neither of which is the case for HBO's remarkable nine-part adaptation of The Last of Us, generally regarded as one of the greatest video game stories ever told. ![]() Video games themselves – while capable of telling compelling stories on their own terms – do not translate naturally to movies and TV shows while the people in charge of financing or making those movies and TV shows have been known to have little respect for what makes them worth adapting in the first place. At best, the last decade has produced well-crafted family fare, such as Sonic the Hedgehog and Detective Pikachu at worst, the genre has found itself defined by a string of cynical mediocrities and unwatchable failures. Live-action video game adaptations are hardly renowned for being serious works of art.
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