Before being a series, ‘The Last of Us’ was supposed to be a Sam Raimi film, but it was cancelled

Due to his long career in horror and sci-fi films, director Sam Raimi was chosen to adapt the video game into a feature film.”The Last of Uswhich was currently being made into an HBO series premiering in January, but was canceled and plans changed to make the story a much longer production.

In an interview with The New Yorkerthe creator of the video game, Neil Druckmann He confessed that the project to adapt “The Last of Us” for cinema was canceled because he didn’t have enough faith in the executives involved who intended to change the story to make it more attractive and “sexier” than necessary.

Since 2014, Sony has taken over the rights to this beloved video game for PlayStation, with the idea of ​​producing it a live action movie where acclaimed director Sam Raimi was set to direct, but was sadly canceled despite creator Neil Druckmann at the time feeling this project had enough potential.

A really good adaptation could shed some light on all those other audiences who care about storytelling and didn’t realize that amazing stories are being told in games,” Druckmann said.

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However, the creator of the video game He says the studio wanted to make a much more popcorn adaptation and compares plans to Brad Pitt’s ‘World War Z’ which is why it ended up being canceled and an opportunity arose sometime later with Craig Mazin, from ‘Chernobyl ‘, where they both agreed that the story would work more as a series.

This is how the controversial story of “The Last of Us” left the opportunity to become a new zombie film with the mind of Sam Raimi behind the scenes, and instead it will now be an HBO television series which promises to be a mega success and which will conquer the public and not just video game lovers.

When is ‘The Last of Us’ coming out on HBO Max?

In the same way as successful series like ‘Euphoria’, the channel HBO extension will use its streaming platform to simultaneously premiere all episodes of the first season of “The Last of Us”, starting next Sunday, January 15, where one of the most anticipated productions of all will have its premiere in 2023. .

In view of the fact that ‘The Last of Us’ has raised the expectation of many people and due to the fact that the story of the 2 video games has been critically acclaimed, this new HBO series should have more than one season, even if by Right now Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey are only confirmed for the former, so we’ll have to wait and see how the first chapters of this apocalyptic story are received to learn more about their future.