‘Lord of the Rings’ is the inspiration for a terrifying scene in ‘The Last Of Us’ on HBO Max

In this first half of 2023, the HBO Max series starring Pedro Pascal ‘The Last Of Us’ has become a huge success, a title inspired by the video game of the same name starring the work of director and screenwriter Craig Mazin, who recently revealed that part of his inspiration for making this production is one of the films of the The Peter Jackson trilogy ‘The Lord of the Rings’.

Craig Mazin chatted to Empire magazine, where he talked about what it was like to be behind a hit series like ‘The Last Of Us’, that’s where he also pointed out that the scariest scene in the first season of this production of HBO Max is inspired by ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring’, a film that won acclaim from the cinema world in 2001.

The scene referred to by the screenwriter of ‘The Last of Us’ appears in the fifth episode of the first season of this series starring Pedro Pascala sequence in which we see how a large number of the infected emerge from a large hole in the ground and are thrown by Kathleen’s men, a moment that will surely be remembered by many fans.

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The screenwriter indicates that his inspiration is specifically the sequence where we see the Fellowship of the Ring in the Mines of Moriathe dwarf kingdom that was devastated by the dark forces of Mordor, a dark, dark and for some terrifying moment in this story, something that the director of “The Last Of Us” tried to recreate in the aforementioned chapter, and taking Considering the results, he succeeded.

‘The Lord of the Rings’ is one of the most important franchises in the history of the film industry, which continues to grow today, and it’s a path it seems to want to follow ‘The Last of Us’ on HBO Maxsince with the huge success of the first season of this video game-inspired title, it already has a second installment confirmed.

‘The Last Of Us’ and ‘Lord of the Rings’ return

At the moment it has not been confirmed when he will return’The Last of Us’ on the HBO Max streaming servicesomething similar to what happens with the franchise “The Lord of the Rings”, since a second season has also been confirmed for the series of this saga “The Rings of Power”, a title that has reached gigantic audience numbers on Amazon Prime Video .

Also, as part of its restructuring, Warner Bros. has confirmed it plans to make moreThe Lord of the Rings”However, so far has not revealed what the plot of these films will be, and likewise has not even indicated when they will arrive, what is a fact is that this saga and ‘The Last Of Us’ , will continue for a long time.