Joel and Ellie attempt to survive in The Final of Us.
Naughty Canine
HBO is growing a sequence based mostly on the favored post-apocalyptic online game The Final Of Us, the studio and recreation developer Naughty Canine revealed Thursday. The difference is being led by Craig Mazin, creator of HBO sequence Chernobyl, and Neil Druckmann, the inventive director of the sport.
“Neil Druckmann is with out query the best storyteller working within the online game medium, and The Final of Us is his magnum opus,” Mazin stated in a press launch. “Getting an opportunity to adapt this breathtaking murals has been a dream of mine for years.”
The TV sequence will cowl the occasions of the unique recreation. Launched in 2013, The Final of Us is a survival horror recreation with gamers following the journey of Joel and Ellie in a post-apocalyptic US. Naughty Canine took a special method to the apocalypse by eliminating zombies and, as an alternative, utilizing a mutant Cordyceps fungus because the supply of the nation’s downfall. The consequence was contaminated people changing into violent hosts to the fungus, with the noninfected banding collectively to outlive. Because the case with many post-apocalyptic tales, generally it is different people who’re the true monsters.
Joel is a middle-aged man who misplaced his household when the an infection started 20 years earlier than the occasions of the sport. He is since turn out to be a smuggler and has been given the duty of chaperoning 14-year-old Ellie to the bottom of a insurgent group known as the Fireflies. Issues do not go in response to plan as Joel learns extra about Ellie and realizes how essential she actually is.
Together with adapting the primary recreation, the sequence may additionally take bits from The Final Of Us Half II, which is popping out in Might.
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Sony Footage Tv and PlayStation Productions are additionally engaged on the mission, in response to the discharge. It’s going to be the primary TV sequence from PlayStation Productions.
