The Last of Us series, based on the video game Naughty Dog, released in 2013, has become one of the most anticipated releases both for an audience familiar with this game, even if surprises and some necessary differences with the original game are undoubtedly expected, in terms of science fiction lovers, in the series that will be seen on HBO Max.
The story of The Last of Us is an apocalyptic drama. Twenty years later humanity has collapsed due to a devastating pandemic caused by a fungus called Cordyceps, which exists in real life, but affects only small insects and a few species of arthropods. The fungus in question assumes control of the host it controls even after its death. A real nightmare.
This drama, followed by millions of players at the time through the video game, has the relationship of the protagonists as its compelling core.
Joel is played by Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian) and Ellie, by Bella Remsey (game of Thrones) are forced to undertake something similar a journey to the end of the world in which they must protect each other and fight tooth and nail against their fears.
Where and when
The Last of Us will premiere the first chapter, Sunday, January 15 on the HBO Max platform. Then they will see every Monday.
The series is adapted and directed by creative Neil Druckmann, with works such as Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune Y Jack and Daxter: The Lost Frontier and by Craig Mazin, chief executive officer of the successful and powerful series Chernobylone of the most acclaimed of recent years, a director who has revealed an unhealthy obsession with attention to detail.
That is a duo that promises rigor compared to the original video gamebut with nuances of a unique and captivating dynamic.
Each episode of this series will premiere on Mondays for the next two months. The first season has nine 50-minute chapters long with the exception of the first, which will be 85 minutes, almost a film and in the manner of stranger things.
The importance of music
One of the highlights of the original video game was the music, composed by Gustavo Santaolalla, who has managed to develop a work as strong as that of the game itself. The 71-year-old Argentinian musician, winner of two Oscars for the soundtracks of The Secret of the Mountain (2005) and smalll (2006) also uploaded his performance to the networks playing the main themes of the video game.
What the series allows us to imagine are situations that in one way or another were limited in the Naughty Dog video game which surprised by its commitment to telling a story with a cinematic concept.
For example, in each of his scenes there were details that gave the game a special flavor as well as in the interrelationships of secondary characters, albeit interesting limited to reading letters and text files, so the series is the ideal format to explore and go beyond those small situations which could not be developed in the game.
From now on, playing is not the same as seeing.
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Source: Clarin
