This past March, HBO confirmed that it’s teaming up with Naughty Dog to make a
Last of Us TV show – which will replace the
long-planned film adaptation.Creator of HBO’s Chernobyl (and writer of the upcoming Borderlands movie,
directed by Eli Roth and starring Cate Blanchett), Craig Mazin, is executive producing and writing the series alongside Naughty Dog’s Neil Druckmann and recently, in an interview with
Discussing Film, Johan Renck, who won an Emmy for directing all five episode of Chernobyl, confirmed he is on board to executive produce
The Last of Us and direct “at least” the pilot episode.
Renck has also directed episode of Breaking Bad, Vikings, The Walking Dead, and Bates Motel.
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Shortly after the series was announced, Mazin gave his word that the character of Ellie would still be gay on the TV series and explained why the story, overall, worked better as an ongoing series than as a movie.
The HBO series isn’t expected to enter production until The Last of Us Part II releases on June 19.
Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/MattBFowler.
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