HBO’s ‘The Last of Us’ has a new teaser about the origin of the zombie outbreak

Fans are already counting down the days and hours to enjoy ‘The Last of Us’ on HBO, the series that will open the 2023 race for best stories on television, for the next 12 months. Now, a new preview of the show starring Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey has been revealed, detailing how the zombie outbreak began.

Through social networks, it was revealed a new preview of ‘The Last of Us’ from HBO, in which the origin of the entire plot is explained which will be played by Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey, who bring Joel and Ellie to life. It is an apocalyptic story where humanity has been on the verge of expansion thanks to the outbreak of a virus that turns people into wild creatures, something like a vegetable zombie.

In the video you can see the origin of the Cordyceps, a virus in the world of ‘The Last of Us’ which is transmitted by spores and which turns humans into deformed creatures. This strange virus is inspired by a real life context, which affects some insects, taking control of their actions, taking them to a place where they can spread their spores and killing them after their useful life.

As you can see in the trailer, Ellie is immune to Cordyceps from ‘The Last of Us’, and in a world where there is no cure to reverse the effects, humanity was nearly extinct. The HBO series centers on the journey of Joel and the little girl, who aims to join a paramilitary group, with the aim of studying young Ellie.

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The strange virus from “The Last of Us”

It is clear that in the HBO series there will be some changes regarding the storyline of “The Last of Us” in video games. But the central point of the story revolves around the Cordyceps Unilateralis, a fungus that created an infection that began to spread in the United States in 2013 and which, in just a few months, wiped out about 60% of humanity that was. been infected.

In the universe of this fiction, the fungus grows while the host is still alive, deprives him of brain function and transforms the infected into a hostile and aggressive being, unable to reason. These species of zombies have different stages, depending on the degree of infection, until deforming into a giant being after several years.

In the midst of the apocalypse, Joel and Ellie travel across the country to find humanity’s last hope, while trying to outwit the undead and develop a relationship between a mercenary and his mission. ‘The Last of Us’ premieres January 15 on HBO Max.