Pedro Pascal's Last Of Us & Mandalorian Comparison Is Great News
In a recent interview, Pedro Pascal commented on his upcoming The Last of Us television series and compared it to The Mandalorian, which, for most familiar with the original video games, is great news. In recent years, television adaptations of beloved video game franchises have occasionally received negative backlash. As The Last of Us is already such an acclaimed standalone video game franchise with a lot of expectation riding on it, it’s a relief to hear Pascal compare it to an already beloved series like The Mandalorian.
The Last of Us, based on the 2013 video game of the same name, follows the story of Joel (Troy Baker in the games, Pascal in the series) as he’s tasked with smuggling a young teenage girl named Ellie across the United States, ravaged by a post-apocalyptic infectious outbreak. Naturally, The Last of Us’s characters deal with a lot of heavy subject matter throughout the game’s story. Prior to the announcement of the series adaptation (created by Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin), The Last of Us game had already received commercial and critical acclaim for its groundbreaking storytelling and dramatic, stylized aesthetics.
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Between the tone The Last of Us strikes and the weightiness of its overarching storyline, it’s great to hear Pascal compare the Last of Us series to an already well-written series like The Mandalorian, and go on to say that Mazin and Druckmann are putting just as much care into Last of Us as Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni put into The Mandalorian. In his interview, Pascal described creators Mazin and Druckmann as the arbiters of a very faithful Last of Us adaptation, all the while expanding and changing The Last of Us’s world.
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