How Accurate Is HBO's Last Of Us To The Games? Pedro Pascal Responds
The Last of Us star Pedro Pascal discusses how faithful the upcoming series will be to the original video game. The Last of Us initially debuted in 2013 for the PlayStation 3 platform. The zombie survival game was groundbreaking in the way it incorporated storytelling into active gameplay, combining character depth with worldbuilding and terrifying action moments. The game is one of the best-reviewed of all time for the platform, and brought home a heap of trophies from VGX and the DICE awards, as well as receiving many other gaming-related accolades. Given the success of the game and its sequel, which came out in 2020, it came as no surprise when HBO announced they would be mounting a live-action series adaptation of The Last of Us.
In the series, The Mandalorian's Pascal is playing Joel, a grizzled survivor of a zombie apocalypse caused by a mutant strain of fungus that infects the brains of humans and turns them into ravenous creatures called The Infected. After a brief prologue in which Joel loses his daughter, the story picks up 20 years after the beginning of the infection. This is when Joel meets Ellie (played in the series by Pacal's Game of Thrones co-star Bella Ramsey), a young woman who has been infected but shows no symptoms, leading them on a long journey of survival with the hope that they may be able to find a cure.
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Recently, Pascal sat down with GQ to speak about his new film The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, in which Nicolas Cage plays himself. In addition to the meta-comedy, the actor discussed The Last of Us, revealing whether or not it remains faithful to the original story of the game. He compares the HBO series'
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