Who Are Ashley Johnson & Troy Baker Playing In The Last Of Us TV Show?
HBO Max's highly-anticipated television adaptation of The Last of Us has revealed two familiar faces–Ashley Johnson and Troy Baker–are part of the series' cast in new roles. Johnson and Baker are notable for voicing Ellie and Joel in Naughty Dog's The Last of Us games. However, it is confirmed they won't be reprising their original roles, birthing speculation regarding which characters Johnson and Baker will now be portraying.
The Last of Us is a 2013 action-adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic United States where a mutant Cordyceps fungus has ravaged a large amount of the population, turning humans into aggressive, zombie-like creatures called the Infected. Joel Miller is a smuggler who must keep Ellie Williams, a teen girl who may be the cure to the fungus, safe during a cross-country journey. The HBO Max adaptation of The Last of Us, co-written and co-developed by Neil Druckmann (the writer/director of The Last of Us game franchise) and Craig Mazin (the creator of HBO miniseries Chernobyl), is the network's first series based on a video game.
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At the recent Summer Game Fest, Ashley Johnson and Troy Baker joined Neil Druckmann on stage to announce their involvement in HBO's The Last of Us series. Their roles in the post-apocalyptic TV show are currently undisclosed, but the duo will have full character roles in the show and not just fun cameo appearances. Here's who Ashley Johnson and Troy Baker could be playing in HBO's The Last of Us.
If Ashley Johnson is playing an existing video game character in the Last of Us TV remake, she could be Maria, the wife of Joel's younger brother Tommy (played by Gabriel Luna). Johnson is older than Ellie but
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