HBO sets a January 2023 debut for The Last of Us series - Digital Trends

1 year ago 33

Many years ago, movie professional Roger Ebert infamously declared that “video games could not successful rule beryllium art.” Because of his position, gamers took Ebert to task and tried to explicate that the mean had travel a agelong mode since the days of Atari. Ironically, the precocious Mr. Ebert died a fewer months earlier the merchandise of The Last of Us successful June 2013. Sony and developer Naughty Dog’s almighty fusion of gameplay and cinematic storytelling created an acquisition that rivals immoderate movie oregon TV show. This crippled is art. And aboriginal adjacent year, the first-ever live-action adaptation of The Last of Us is coming to HBO.

To the borderline of the beingness and back. #TheLastOfUs premieres January 15 connected @HBOMax. pic.twitter.com/TPJxOBZRBr

— The Last of Us (@TheLastofUsHBO) November 2, 2022

As you tin spot successful the poster above, The Last of Us volition premiere connected Sunday, January 15, 2023, with caller episodes pursuing play connected HBO and HBO Max. The Mandalorian‘s Pedro Pacal is starring successful the bid arsenic Joel, a antheral haunted by idiosyncratic nonaccomplishment successful a post-apocalyptic America that was ravaged by a plague. Within some the crippled and the show, Joel is hired to escort a young miss named Ellie (Bella Ramsey) crossed the country. And due to the fact that Ellie is immune to the plague, her information whitethorn beryllium captious to the endurance of humanity itself.

Joel and Ellie successful HBO's The Last of Us.

There’s nary shortage of enactment successful the story, but 1 of the halfway parts of the crippled is the mode that Joel and Ellie emotionally enslaved and trust connected each different to past the experience. That’s 1 of the main reasons wherefore the communicative resonates truthful powerfully with gamers. Neil Druckmann, the writer of the archetypal game, teamed up with Chernobyl showrunner Craig Mazin for HBO’s The Last of Us; which should insure that the important aspects of the acquisition volition stay intact wrong the show.

Gabriel Luna co-stars successful the bid arsenic Joel’s brother, Tommy, with Merle Dandridge arsenic Marlene, Anna Torv arsenic Tess, Nico Parker arsenic Sarah, Murray Bartlett arsenic Frank, Nick Offerman arsenic Bill, Storm Reid arsenic Riley Abel, Jeffrey Pierce arsenic Perry, Lamar Johnson arsenic Henry, Keivonn Woodard arsenic Sam, Graham Greene arsenic Marlon, Elaine Miles arsenic Florence, and Melanie Lynskey arsenic Kathleen. Troy Baker and Ashley Johnson, the archetypal dependable actors for Joel and Ellie, volition besides look arsenic antithetic characters wrong the show.