We are now less than a week away from HBO’s The Last of Us, which looks like it has a chance of banishing the ghost of bad video game adaptations forever. With the game’s director Neil Druckmann on board alongside Chernobyl‘s Craig Mazin, together with an astronomical budget and apparent faithfulness to the game’s themes and aesthetic, this is shaping up to be a genuine TV treat.
The show will be anchored by the lead performances of Pedro Pascal as grizzled survivor Joel and Bella Ramsey as Ellie, a young girl he must protect in their long journey across a ruined and deadly post-apocalyptic America. But some enterprising modders are already imagining what a sequel show could look like and have inserted Ramsey into the 2020 smash-hit The Last of Us Part II.