Producer Craig Mazin has promised The Last Of Us fans that the TV series won’t change the game’s story, but rather enhance it.
While HBO’s The Last Of Us television series has fans of the game excited, there is understandably a lot of trepidation surrounding it.
Usually, when video games are adapted in another medium, most often film, they end up being barely recognisable and have very little in common with the source material.
Producer Craig Mazin, who is probably best known for his work on Chernobyl, is aware of this and has attempted to assuage fans’ concerns that the show will drastically change the game’s plot or characters.
‘I think fans of something worry that, when the property gets licenced to someone else, those people don’t really understand it, or are going to change it,’ said Mazin in an interview with BBC Radio 5 Live (thanks IGN).
‘In this case, I’m doing it with the guy who did it, and so the changes that we’re making are designed to fill things out and expand, not to undo, but rather to enhance.’
He is referring to Naughty Dog’s Neil Druckmann, who directed and wrote The Last Of Us and its sequel and will be producing the show alongside Mazin.
He has also already provided a key example. Shortly after the series was announced, a fan stated that it had better keep Ellie gay, to which Mazin responded on Twitter with, ‘You have my word.’
Video game adaptations certainly have improved over the years, especially regarding TV shows. Netflix has enjoyed success with its Castlevania and The Witcher adaptations (though the latter is admittedly based more on the books).
It’s even getting another one with a Splinter Cell animated series that is being produced and written by Derek Kolstad, the writer for the John Wick movies.
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