HBO recently announced that action-adventure survival horror video game The Last Of Us developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment will be turning into a series adaptation with both award-winning Craig Mazin (Chernobyl) teaming up with writer and creative director Neil Druckmann.
Look for the light. @clmazin and @Neil_Druckmann to develop the series adaptation of #TheLastOfUs, coming soon to HBO: https://t.co/z9c2h86EYw pic.twitter.com/AkT6fET4Im
— HBO (@HBO) March 5, 2020
Based on the game that focuses on Joel, a smuggler tasked with escorting a teenage girl, Ellie, through the post-apocalyptic United States, filled with hostile people and mutating strain of Cordyceps fungus zombies. Unknowingly that Ellie is humanity’s last hope.
The Internet got excited, so are we…
Many fans are jumping on the bandwagon making the casting call on who is potentially great at playing Joel and Ellie with some speculating with images and tweets via #TheLastOfUs as below:
let's get nuts #TheLastOfUs pic.twitter.com/uYMGFIuzfW
— ?? (@Hellkr1) March 5, 2020
Josh Holloway gets my vote pic.twitter.com/PvNLnPQLaw
— Brendan McEvoy (@bmacky88) March 5, 2020
I'm kinda leaning towards Gerard Butler now, but any of these would be awesome. pic.twitter.com/pcVEJcafTW
— Nic ? (@NicPolcaro) March 5, 2020
So who do you think suits the role more?