HBO announce 'The Last of Us' TV series

[Scarlett.]

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[Nicky91]

ooh exciting :D

[Shaun]

Maybe watching it will put me in the mood to actually start playing it properly... I'm a wimp when it comes to zombie stuff and whilst I enjoyed the hour or two of TLOU I played, I was very much on edge and wanting it to be over :joker:

[Scarlett.]

Might be done in time for the sequel in May :p

[Toy Soldier]

Maybe watching it will put me in the mood to actually start playing it properly... I'm a wimp when it comes to zombie stuff and whilst I enjoyed the hour or two of TLOU I played, I was very much on edge and wanting it to be over :joker:

To be fair, TLOU is the only zombie game where there have been times that I've been utterly ****ing frantic with the tension. Getting rushed and just wildly swinging a 2x4, mashing the controller and screaming. :umm2:

[Moniqua]

they better nawt butcher it ah SWUR TEW GAWD

[Nicky91]

i saw many people speaking their views who should be cast for the characters (here's some of those choices)

Hugh Jackman - Joel

Dafne Keen or Maisie Williams - Ellie, but most want Dafne Keen for that role

Josh Holloway or Nikolaj Coster-Waldau - Tommy



anyway i feel hyped for this, and i hope they put every detail from video game into this too

[Toy Soldier]

Hugh Jackman would make a decent Joel. You can't have Hugh and Dafne together though, that's just Logan all over again :think:.

Also Maisie Williams would make an absolutely awful Ellie. Personally I'd say cast an unknown/up and coming young actor for that role.


To make it work they'll have to expand upon the game though; the game essentially only has two "full" characters, and their journey alone works as a game, would even work as a movie, but it's not enough to flesh out a TV show. I think they'll have to use flashbacks (prw-apocalypse for Joel, flesh out the "Left Behind" storyline for Ellie) and maybe introduce other plot lines, e.g. Create characters and a concurrent plot line in the Firefly group (which would make the ending really shocking for people who haven't played the game).

[Brother Leon]

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Here for the meltdown :laugh:

[DouglasS]

They look nothing alike, video games fans like there to be some resemblance...

It’s like The Witchers Triss who is red haired being portrayed by a girl completely different

[Scarlett.]

He's a fantastic actor though, so I dont mind

[Toy Soldier]

They look nothing alike, video games fans like there to be some resemblance...

It’s like The Witchers Triss who is red haired being portrayed by a girl completely different

Its an adaptation not a recreation, and there's nothing specific about the character of Joel that would require him to be a specific ethnicity :shrug:.

Also in terms of The Witcher, I like both the series and games, but important to note that it was originally a book series. The games are unofficial sequels to the books, while the series is an adaptation of the books, not the games. Triss has light brown hair in the books - red was a visual choice for the games (presumably to create a stark visual contrast with Yennifer's black hair, which is canonical to the books). If we're nit-picking.

[Amy Jade]

Pedro Pascal has been cast as Joel and Bella Ramsey cast as Ellie

https://bloody-disgusting.com/tv/3651682/pedro-pascal-cast-joel-last-us-hbo-series/

Bella was an absolute scene stealer in GOT as Lyanna

[Scarlett.]

Nice casting!