Throughout Summer time Sport Fest, The Final of Us collection co-creator and government producer Neil Druckmann shared a primary look photograph from the upcoming HBO adaptation of the online game. The darkish and spooky photograph options Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian) and Bella Ramsey (Sport of Thrones) as Joel and Ellie, respectively, and when you look very carefully, you possibly can simply make out what seems to be a clicker lurking within the darkness behind them.
Along with revealing the brand new photograph, Neil Druckmann additionally introduced that Troy Baker and Ashley Johnson, the voices behind Joel and Ellie within the online game, have been cast in The Final of Us TV collection as totally different characters.
The Final of Us collection takes place “20 years after fashionable civilization has been destroyed by a lethal virus. Joel, a hardened survivor, is employed to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old lady, out of an oppressive quarantine zone to the Fireflies, a cure-searching group. What begins as a small job quickly turns into a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they each should traverse throughout the U.S. and rely on one another for survival.” Along with Pedro Pascal, The Final of Us additionally options Gabriel Luna, Merle Dandridge, Nico Parker, Murray Bartlett, Nick Offerman, Storm Reid, Jeffrey Pierce and Anna Torv. Pascal has beforehand teased that The Final of Us was made for individuals who love the online game franchise.
There’s a really, very artistic method of honoring what’s essential and likewise preserving what’s iconic to the expertise of the online game, and likewise [to include] issues that you just wouldn’t essentially anticipate. After which instructions that you’d anticipate it to go, and it may not… they’re performing some actually sensible issues, is all I can say. It’s much like the best way Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni deal with The Mandalorian, in how [show co-writer Craig Mazin and game writer and show co-writer Neil Druckmann] are treating The Final of Us — it’s in good fingers as a result of they adore it a lot. Effectively, clearly Neil created the online game, however Craig loves it a lot. So it truly is made for the people who adore it. And there’s some very intense storytelling for individuals who may be much less acquainted.
The Final of Us doesn’t have an official launch date but, however HBO and HBO Max Chief Content material Officer Casey Bloys mentioned earlier this yr that it wouldn’t air till 2023.
