The Last of Us Bill and Frank spin-off series pitched to HBO
A The Last of Us spin-off TV series focusing on survivors Bill and Frank has been pitched.
The news comes from Nick Offerman, who recently won an Emmy for his portrayal of Bill in HBO's series.
Speaking backstage after the awards, the actor was asked about whether viewers could see more from Bill and Frank in the future. «Oh, great question but I would have to ask somebody with a higher pay grade than myself,» he replied (thanks, Deadline).
«It certainly has been pitched. I think we pitched a whole mini-series of a prequel of their lives before they met each other,» Offerman continued, before joking: «It could be a musical. We're not short on ideas. We'll just, we'll see what Craig [Mazin] and Neil [Druckmann] come up with.»
This is not the first time a suggestion of a series spin-off starring the two survivors has been broached. Soon after the third episode aired, its director Peter Hoar said a Bill spin-off could be an interesting idea to pursue. «Bill's got legs,» he stated in February.
«Obviously we see a little moment where [Bill and Frank] are working with Joel and Tess. And we see the scene where they first meet — but then it's a good few years of them working together and understanding each other. Maybe that's the section that you do as a spinoff, where it's action-packed and whatever. Or rather than a spin-off series, maybe it's just a spin-off of Bill, and it's just digging into that one moment,» Hoar mused at the time.
«I'd love to do something with Joel in the middle,» the director continued. «You'd learn a lot about him mid-apocalypse, because obviously Pedro [Pascal] came on without all the grey in his hair, and he looked fabulous. I just thought, 'Wow, that's a Joel I don't know'.
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