“The Last of Us” already has an approximate release date on HBO

Few video game adaptations have raised as much expectation as ‘The Last of Us’, but it makes sense to have hope because not only is it one of the most acclaimed titles at the script level in recent years, its translation into real action is responsible for heavyweight. from the industry: HBO, Craig Mazin (“Chernobyl”) and Neil Druckmann, creator of the PlayStation video games. HBO has just revalidated its seal of quality by amassing 155 nominations at the 2022 Emmy Awardsbeing the chain / streaming platform with the highest number of nominations of the year.

Will “The Last of Us” make a dent in the next edition of the Television Academy Awards? It’s still early to say because we don’t even have a release date for the series led by Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey. Casey Bloys, original content manager for HBO and HBO Max, provided a slight update to The Hollywood Reporter on the moment when Joel and Ellie will arrive on our screens: “It will be close to the start of 2023”. It’s not much, but at least we already know we won’t have to wait much longer.

If you haven’t played video games, “The Last of Us” takes place several years after a pandemic caused by the Cordyceps fungus wiped out civilization as we know it, turning a very high percentage of civilizations into grotesque and deadly creatures. . Joel, one of the survivors, is tasked with getting a girl named Ellie out of the quarantine zone and looking for fireflies, a group of militiamen looking for a cure for the infection. The cast also includes Anna Torv, Nick Offerman, Murray Bartlett, Merle Dandridge, Gabriel Luna and Jeffrey Pierce..

The series that returns to HBO

In addition to talking about “The Last of Us”, Bloys commented that before the 2023 Emmy nominations, which will take place in July next year, the new seasons of “The White Lotus”, “The Sex Life of College Girls”, ‘The Idol’, ‘Succession’, ‘Julia’, ‘Hacks’, ‘Barry’ and ‘The Gemstones’. Before that, on 21 August they will return to Poniente with the premiere of ‘La Casa del Dragone’.