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Rumour: HBO’s Last of Us Will Have New Flashbacks Not in the Game + Unseen Characters (Spoilers)
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Pretty excited about the TV show. I loved the game but I definitely think it could've worked great as a movie/TV show.
I'm fine with this and cannot wait for the show. We know just by the nature of the medium there will be expanded parts/roles.
I have total faith in HBO, Druckmann, Mazin, and the cast 🙏🏻
I have total faith in HBO, Druckmann, Mazin, and the cast 🙏🏻
I just worried how this is gonna affect the pacing tbh, I know most of them will probably come from the characters seeing artifacts, but I just hope it's not too much and hope they know not every artifact needs a flashback. I'm talking namely the suicide couple in the bath tub and the family in the rv in Salt Lake City. Those where so effective specifically because of lack of flashback and being a form of environmental storytelling & I hope that it's not lost somehow.
Ish is a character who you follow through notes and environmental storytelling. You never see him outside of a crayon drawing by a kid.
Nah, Ish was
part of the crew that lived in the sewers and you piece together what happened to them through notes.
I bet there'll be stuff from the American Dream's comic
This seems like a certainty. There are people that are fans of the series that aren't even aware of what goes on in AD.
Makes sense, Neil/ND were directly involved with the show so it would make sense for them to tell parts of the story they didn't manage to tell, or tell in the way they wanted, in the game for X reasons.
With Craig Mazin showrunning, I got faith. You seen Chernobyl?
And with Druckmann on board, here's hoping we get more accurate to the lore than Halo was
Offt that would be harrowing having an episode dedicated to that
Would make for an amazing flashback episode interspersed with Ellie and Joel going through it in the present
Well, I believe Dr. Uckmann confirmed a long ass while ago that we'll see stuff not from the games so I'm not that surprised.
We have zero idea how they're structuring the story. I dont think we should assume it will follow the game closely. A big part of the game are gameplay shootouts/sneakouts, some puzzles, or characters doing a walk & talk. Except a bunch of tense scenes, scares and a few action beats; I don't think we'll get a 20 minute shootout in every episode with the actors ducking behind chest-high cover, or have Joel inspect notes left behind on the fridge, or have him dragging around with ladders :P
So they'll need to fill in quite some story; I believe the total of all TLOU1 cutscenes hits around 1h 30; so they'll need to get creative to get up to those (probably hourlong) 10 episodes.
For what its worth, per wikipedia:
Unsurprising. TLOU1 doesn't really have THAT MUCH story when you get down to it, so it makes sense to fill in a lot of the gaps where nothing actually important happens, but Joel and Ellie are still just traveling forward and murdering people because a game's gotta have gameplay, with actual plot.
I don't even know why this would need to be confirmed. The story in the Last of Us is one of the greatest in video game history but who actually wants to just watch it on TV exactly the same? Nobody.
Okay I'm going to be severely disappointed if this doesn't happen now
No chance. HBO is behind the show and a lot of money is going into it plus an excellent cast
It's a direct adaptation of the first game, yes.
Nothing official but should be early in 2023, it finishes filming in a couple weeks then special effects and stuff until then.
I'm all for it. Flesh the world and backstory out even more, it'd be kinda boring if it was trying to be 1:1 with the game plot.
