{"id":80532,"date":"2022-09-28T09:51:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T09:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/hbo-max-drops-first-teaser-for-the-last-of-us-adaptation\/"},"modified":"2022-09-28T09:51:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T09:51:59","slug":"hbo-max-drops-first-teaser-for-the-last-of-us-adaptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/hbo-max-drops-first-teaser-for-the-last-of-us-adaptation\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO Max drops first teaser for The Last of Us adaptation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<aside id=\"social-left\" class=\"social-left\" aria-label=\"Read the comments or share this article\">\n<\/aside>\n<p><!-- cache hit 251:single\/related:beee8008a5043beaed1e94c8966f7bff --><!-- empty --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"video\">\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container\" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Last of Us | Official Teaser | HBO Max\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rBRRDpQ0yc0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<figcaption class=\"caption\">\n<p>Pedro Pascal stars as a hardened survivor in HBO&#8217;s new series, <em>The Last of Us<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A traumatized survivor of a zombie apocalypse must face hordes of the &#8220;Infected&#8221; to protect a teenage girl who might hold the key to a cure in <em>The Last of Us<\/em>, a new HBO series based on the blockbuster action\/adventure game of the same name.  HBO just dropped the first official teaser, giving gaming fans their first look at this long-awaited TV adaptation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(Some spoilers from the game below.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Last of Us<\/em> game from Naughty Dog debuted in 2013 to pretty much universal acclaim for its narrative, gameplay, visuals, and sound design.  Ars senior gaming editor Kyle Orland called it &#8220;a thrilling, beautiful, exceptionally human zombie apocalypse story&#8221; in his 2013 review.  The game sold more than 1 million units in the first week of its release and won multiple gaming awards.  It&#8217;s still often cited as among the greatest video games ever made.  Co-showrunner Craig Mazin called it the &#8220;<em>Lawrence of Arabia<\/em> of video game narratives.&#8221; Naughty Dog co-President Neil Druckmann, who wrote and directed the original game, co-wrote the first season of the TV series with Mazin. <\/p>\n<p>The game is set in 2013 in the 20-year aftermath of a deadly outbreak of mutant fungus that turns humans into monstrous zombie-like creatures (the Infected, or Clickers).  The world has become a series of separate totalitarian quarantine zones and independent settlements, with a thriving black market and a rebel militia known as the Fireflies making life complicated for the survivors.  A hardened smuggler named Joel is tasked with escorting a teenage girl named Ellie across the devastated US, battling hostile forces and hordes of zombies, to a Fireflies unit outside the quarantine zone.  Ellie is special: She is immune to the deadly fungus, and the hope is that her immunity holds the key to beating the disease.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad_wrapper\" aria-label=\"In Content advertisement\">\n    <span class=\"ad_notice\">Advertisement <\/span>    <\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>There were a couple of failed attempts to adapt <em>The Last of Us<\/em> for a movie before HBO Max announced its TV adaptation, which purportedly covers the events of the game as well as some aspects of the sequel, <em>The Last of Us Part II<\/em> (2020).  Unlike the recent film adaptation of another Naughty Dog game, <em>Uncharted<\/em>\u2014which told a new story within the game world\u2014Mazin said that any changes for <em>The Last of Us<\/em> TV series are &#8220;designed to fill things out and expand, not to undo, but to enhance.&#8221;  He also said that some content cut from the game will be included in the series and that some of the dialogue will be drawn directly from the game.  The show&#8217;s score was created by original game composer Gustavo Santaolalla.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image shortcode-img center large\" style=\"width:100%\"><img alt=\"Pedro Pascal watched his nephew playing the beginning of <em>The Last of Us<\/em> to prepare for his role as Joel.&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/lastofus1-640&#215;423.jpg&#8221; width=&#8221;640&#8243; height=&#8221;423&#8243; srcset=&#8221;https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/lastofus1.jpg 2x&#8221;\/><figcaption class=\"caption\">\n<div class=\"caption-text\">enlarge <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> Pedro Pascal watched his nephew playing the beginning of <em>The Last of Us<\/em> to prepare for his role as Joel.<\/div>\n<p>YouTube\/HBO Max<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Per the official premise:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The Last of Us <\/em>story takes place twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed.  Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone.  What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse the US and depend on each other for survival.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Pedro Pascal was cast as Joel, while Bella Ramsey\u2014so memorable as the fierce Lyanna Mormont in <em>game of Thrones<\/em>\u2014plays Ellie.  Gabriel Luna plays Joel&#8217;s younger brother, Tommy, a former soldier, while Merle Dandridge reprises her role in the game as Marlene, head of the Fireflies.  Anna Torv plays Joel&#8217;s smuggling partner, Tess, and Nico Parker has a guest role as Joel&#8217;s daughter, Sarah.  Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett play survivalists, while Storm Reid plays an orphaned girl named Riley Abel, a character who appeared in a DLC packet for first game (<em>The Last of Us: Left Behind<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Other actors from the game also appear in the series: Jeffrey Pierce (Tommy in the game) plays a rebel in the quarantine zone named Perry, while Troy Baker and Ashley Johnson (who played Joel and Ellie, respectively, in the game) have been cast in as-yet-undisclosed roles.  There are also a handful of new characters: Marlon (Graham Greene), who lives in the Wyoming wilderness with his wife, Florence (Elaine Miles), and Melanie Lynskey as a revolutionary leader in Kansas City named Kathleen.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pedro Pascal stars as a hardened survivor in HBO&#8217;s new series, The Last of Us. A traumatized survivor of a zombie apocalypse must face hordes of the &#8220;Infected&#8221; to protect a teenage girl who might hold the key to a cure in The Last of Us, a new HBO series based on the blockbuster action\/adventure &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/hbo-max-drops-first-teaser-for-the-last-of-us-adaptation\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HBO Max drops first teaser for The Last of Us adaptation<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":78738,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-last-of-us-hbo-series-gets-a-first-full-trailer\/","url_meta":{"origin":80532,"position":0},"title":"The Last of Us: HBO Series Gets a First Full Trailer","date":"September 26, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Update: We've gotten a first full trailer for HBO's The Last of Us series:Released as part of the Last of Us Day celebrations, the mostly wordless trailer gives us our first glimpses at live-action Clickers, the overgrown United States landscape, characters old and new, and even that iconic opening scene\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Entertainment&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":79046,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/hbo-shares-first-teaser-for-the-last-of-us\/","url_meta":{"origin":80532,"position":1},"title":"HBO shares first teaser for The Last Of Us","date":"September 26, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The Last Of Usphoto: HBONaughty Dog's The Last Of Us was a PlayStation 3 game that was met with so much critical and commercial acclaim that Sony put out a remastered version for PlayStation 4 and then a full remake for PlayStation 5ensuring that people will always have easy access\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Entertainment&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":53318,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-last-of-us-tv-show-looks-just-like-the-original-video-game\/","url_meta":{"origin":80532,"position":2},"title":"The Last Of Us TV Show Looks Just Like The Original Video Game","date":"August 23, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"If playing a remake of a game that's already been remastered doesn't float your boat, maybe you'd be down for a live-action The Last of Us TV show that's nearly a shot-for-shot remake of Naughty Dog's 2013 PS3 smash hit? yeah? 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