The creator of Chernobyl Craig Mazin has teamed up with HBO to adapt the video game The Last of Us into a new TV series.
The writer and creative director of the PlayStation game, Neil Druckmann, is also involved and will work with Mazin to put together the new show.
This will be the first-ever TV series from PlayStation Productions and it has been reported that the adaptation will include some of the topics from the upcoming game The Last of Us Part II which is set to be released in May, although a release date for the HBO series has not been confirmed just yet.
It will also cover events from the original game, which was written by Druckmann.
‘Neil Druckmann is without question the finest storyteller working in the video game medium, and The Last of Us is his magnum opus,’ Mazin explained.
‘Getting a chance to adapt this breathtaking work of art has been a dream of mine for years, and I’m so honored to do it in partnership with Neil.’
Druckman added to The Hollywood Reporter: ‘From the first time I sat down to talk with Craig, I was equally blown away by his approach to narrative and his love and deep understanding of The Last of Us.’
Naughty Dog, developers of the game, also took to their Twitter account to share the exciting news with their fans.
They said: ‘We’re so psyched to be teaming up with @HBO to create a new The Last of Us series with @NeilDruckmann and @clmazin at the helm.’
The Last of Us is a 2013 action-adventure survival horror video game, players control Joel, a smuggler tasked with escorting teenage girl, Ellie, across the post-apocalyptic United States.
The game itself is played from a third-person perspective and players’ user weapons and firearms to defend themselves against hostile humans.
What can we expect from the TV series based on the video game plot?
In September 2013, an outbreak of a mutant Cordyceps fungus ravages the United States, transforming its human hosts into aggressive creatures known as the Infected.
In the suburbs of Texas, Joel flees the chaos with his brother Tommy and daughter Sarah. As they flee, Sarah is shot by a soldier and dies in Joel’s arms.
Twenty years later, civilization has been decimated by the infection. Survivors live in heavily policed quarantine zones, independent settlements, and nomadic groups.
Joel works as a smuggler with his partner Tess in the quarantine zone.They hunt down Robert, a black-market dealer, to recover a stolen weapons cache.
Before Tess kills him, Robert reveals that he traded the cache with the Fireflies, a rebel opposing the quarantine zone authorities.
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