The Last of Us

A recent blog post from The Last of Us co-creator Neil Druckmann revealed the news, teasing a new piece of concept art for the multiplayer game.

[blog post](https://www.naughtydog.com/blog/the_last_of_us_10th_anniversary_kickoff), The Last of Us co-creator Neil Druckmann revealed the news, teasing a new piece of concept art for the upcoming multiplayer title. [Naughty Dog](https://www.naughtydog.com/blog/the_last_of_us_10th_anniversary_kickoff) Beyond this, nothing else has been revealed about the upcoming title.

Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann hints at the future of the Last of Us franchise in a 10-year anniversary update that hypes the new TLOU multiplayer game, ...

[The Last of Us](https://www.polygon.com/game/the-last-of-us/3040). A PC version of [The Last of Us Part 1](https://www.polygon.com/reviews/23329135/the-last-of-us-part-1-ps5-review-release-date-naughty-dog), the studio’s second re-release of the first game, is due in March. 15](https://www.polygon.com/23434471/the-last-of-us-tv-show-release-date-hbo-max). [concept art reveal from last June](https://www.polygon.com/23161755/the-last-of-us-part-2-tlou2-multiplayer-release), Naughty Dog co-president Neil Druckmann revealed another piece of art from the multiplayer game based on the post-apocalyptic franchise. The biggest example of that growth is Naughty Dog and HBO’s live-action adaptation of The original PlayStation 3 game was released on June 14, 2013, and, yes, you’re very old now.

Naughty Dog Co-President Neil Druckmann said it will also be a “fresh, new experience from [the] studio, but one rooted in Naughty Dog's passion for delivering ...

He also touched on the imminent HBO Max series and said exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes looks would be coming out to give fans a more detailed look at this adaptation. He also noted that its story will be told in a unique way and star a new cast. The Last of Us turns 10 in 2023, and Naughty Dog is promising a big year for the series.

Naughty Dog has shared new concept art from The Last of Us multiplayer game and promised it will release more information later this year, possibly on the ...

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Naughty Dog has shared a second piece of concept art for the The Last of Us multiplayer game, and the series has sold 37 million units total.

Incidentally, this new game began life as an intended multiplayer mode for The Last of Us Part II, but it ultimately was spun off into its own standalone entity. Naughty Dog has also shared a second piece of concept art (below) for its upcoming The Last of Us multiplayer game, which still has no official name. [has reminded us](https://www.naughtydog.com/blog/the_last_of_us_10th_anniversary_kickoff) that the The Last of Us franchise will turn 10 years old in June, terrifying us all with how fast time flies, and co-president Neil Druckmann has revealed that the games have sold more than 37 million units in total to date.

It's a fungal virus that infects bugs deep in the Amazon rainforest, growing parasitically in their brain and leaving them with strange fungal growths on their ...

It’s the source of the world’s downfall, the thing that makes it so dangerous, and it’s what makes Ellie so remarkable. The Cordyceps virus in this story takes on a day or two to fully take over the brain but the longer the host body is infected, the more the virus transforms it, and so we see varied types of zombies populating the world of The Last of Us. The spread of the fungus has rendered the host blind, so they must use echolocation to get around. In these enclosed spaces filled with the virus, the Cordyceps will spread even after the host's death across the walls and floor, growing like a more traditional fungus until it begins to produce spores that will fill the space. Their attacks are stereotypically a bit stilted and sluggish as you might expect from a zombie, and they don’t yet have any of the special or dangerous abilities that come from a long-term infection. In The Last of Us, this virus mutated and spread to humans causing them to experience the same sort of brutal loss of self as they succumb to the virus that preserves their body but not their mind until they become mindless drones that will slowly grow those fungal features. The virus in the world of The Last of Us is based on one that actually exists in the real world: Ophiocordyceps unilateralis. As opposed to the zombies of many other stories, the zombies in The Last of Us aren’t actually dead. It’s the earliest phase and shortest phase of infection in which the host's personality has disappeared, and they are rendered into something akin to a rabid animal. After succumbing to the virus, the body will enter the first phase of being an actual zombie. Each zombie story has to set itself apart in some way and make its zombies unique and The Last of Us tackled this with its own twist that impacted the gameplay as well as the world-building. The world fell quickly and violently to zombies 20 years ago and the story picks up with the first glimmer of hope the world has seen since in the form of Ellie, a young girl with an inexplicable immunity to the infection.

Total sales for The Last of Us series have surpassed 37 million copies worldwide as of December 2022, publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment and ...

“We’ll have some fun surprises for you along the way, but later this year we will begin to offer you some details on our ambitious The Last of Us multiplayer game. - Interviews and behind-the-scenes looks at the original The Last of Us, The Last of Us Part I, and its adaptation to television. With a team led by Vinit Agarwal, Joe Pettinati, and Anthony Newman, the project is shaping up to be a fresh, new experience from our studio, but one rooted in Naughty Dog’s passion for delivering incredible stories, characters, and gameplay.”

While video game adaptations have had a rough history, it finally looks like the entertainment industry has found a way to bring justice to classic games.

Like The Last of Us, the film explores a bleak reality through an individual experience, which somehow makes it even more heartbreaking and disturbing. The film explores the Srebrenica massacre through the eyes of a schoolteacher who watches both the adults and children in her community sent to their death. The Last of Us subverts many of the clichés in post-apocalyptic storytelling and recontextualizes familiar genre tropes in favor of a more realistic story. The mix of exciting thriller elements with gripping material signifies that Abbasi is the perfect choice to helm The Last of Us’ complex tone. [The Last of Us](https://collider.com/tag/the-last-of-us/), HBO’s series inspired by the 2013 game of the same name. is expected to be one of the biggest films of this year.

Developed by the game's creator and Naughty Dog co-president Neil Druckmann, alongside Chernobyl maestro Craig Mazin, it's one of the most anticipated TV events ...

But clearly the emotional story is in the right hands, as despite being a zombie show, Craig Mazin knows where the real heart lies: “I’m not interested in the zombies! Therefore, one can wonder how the TV show, which is a more passive medium, will adapt this concept. As she hunts those responsible one by one, she is confronted with the devastating physical and emotional repercussions of her actions. “We won’t run into the same issue as Game of Thrones since Part II doesn’t end on a cliffhanger.” Game of Thrones of course being infamous for extending past the original books, to poor results. Druckmann and Mazin hint – but don’t outright say – that their second season will cover the table-flipping narrative of Naughty Dog’s bold Part II sequel (“I don’t like filler,” Mazin says).” The official plot for Part 2 is as such: Five years after their dangerous journey across the post-pandemic United States, Ellie and Joel have settled down in Jackson, Wyoming.

There are almost always some discrepancies when adapting source materials like books or video games into movies and TV shows. Each storytelling method has ...

Martin](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/10/arts/television/house-of-the-dragon-hbo-got.html) in the creative process for the last few seasons, The Last of Us series co-creator Neil Druckmann happens to also have been the creative director for the video game – meaning it was his idea and concept from the beginning. While Druckmann and Mazin don’t outright say that a second season of The Last of Us would follow the story of the second game in their interview with The Hollywood Reporter, they hint that season two would at least start to explore the story told in the divisive video game sequel. If they do adapt Part II into a potential second season, Druckmann and Mazin seem prepared to either end the series after that story is told or wait for another game to adapt rather than continue the story separate from the games. However, series creators Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin reassured fans via an interview with [The Hollywood Reporter](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/the-last-of-us-hbo-pedro-pascal-bella-ramsey-interview-1235290103/) that their series will avoid the problems of Game of Thrones, with Druckmann saying “We have no plans to tell any stories beyond adapting the games. We won’t run into the same issue as Game of Thrones since [The Last of Us] Part II doesn’t end on a cliffhanger.” [ Game of Thrones](https://www.denofgeek.com/game-of-thrones/), series creators David Benioff and D.B.

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(He doesn’t say “like The Walking Dead” here, but I do.) “When it becomes a perpetual motion machine, it just can’t help but get kind of … “People see bad adaptations and it adds credence to the idea that games are childish,” he says. “I don’t have any interest in a spinning-plates-go-on-forever show,” Mazin says. “We won’t run into the same issue as Game of Thrones since Part II doesn’t end on a cliffhanger.” They saw “dozens and dozens” for the part. But as far as Mandalorian and The Last of Us existing in close proximity, for me, it’s the best double-dipping I could possibly imagine.” The love that has to develop between these two characters for you to care was there in spades.” “I like to blend in and hide.” “Ellie felt like a character I already had in me,” Ramsey says. Admits Bloys: “I’m not a gamer; the last video game I played was on ColecoVision.” (The game: Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel’s Castle). “We wanted to do the opposite of Resident Evil — which I love, but it’s so over-the-top and you’re fighting giant spiders and it’s all about enemy variety,” Druckmann says. “I realized that this is what I got wrong every other time — I didn’t have the right partner.”

Naughty Dog said that as of December 2022, the global sales for the Last of Us series has passed an impressive 37 million copies.

Currently, we know to expect season one of the HBO adaptation, which is arriving on 15th January; the PC version of The Last of Us Part I on 3rd March; and the tabletop role-playing game, The Last of Us: Escape the Dark, in December. However, that number is only in small part due to the recent release of the The Last of Us Part I remake, which has been selling poorly to the point of even being [outsold by the critically panned Saints Row reboot](https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2022/09/05/the-last-of-us-part-1-sales-launch-physical-uk/) in the UK. The developer went on to say that even more The Last of Us content will be arriving in 2023.

Joel and Ellie's post-apocalyptic adventure is more relevant than ever, and who could blame Sony and Naughty Dog for grabbing this bull by the horns and doing ...

This brings us to the idea of a third installment, and where exactly one might go in terms of its story and characters. Ellie doesn’t deserve to spend the rest of her life alone, and Abby has a right to find new friends and family after all she once held dear was unfairly taken away. Once again, where it all goes is left up to interpretation, and the one true path will only be revealed once Naughty Dog lifts the veil and dares to take us there. At the time, we didn’t need to imagine that ultimatum, our minds filling in the blanks and leading us to a final destination that either mirrored Joel’s own rejection of the truth or went somewhere much darker. [The Last of Us](https://www.thegamer.com/tag/the-last-of-us/) still has [more stories to tell](https://www.thegamer.com/naughty-dog-new-concept-art-the-last-of-us-factions-sequel/) with its world and characters, meaning that [Naughty Dog](https://www.thegamer.com/tag/naughty-dog/) likely hasn’t watered the miserable well of narrative prestige dry just yet. We know the thread will unwind eventually, and the temporary sanctuary Joel has created for himself in fear of saying goodbye to the one thing in the world worth fighting for will spell his demise.

HBO's The Last of Us will premiere at the end of next week so it's not long to go now before viewers will get to see the television debut of Pedro Pascal ...

In addition, Mazin and Druckmann reiterated their fondness for endings so don't expect The Last of Us series to go on forever and ever like The Walking Dead seemed to do, but will instead find a natural end that shouldn't go far beyond the timeline of the games. The Last of Us Part 2 has been divisive among players, with many disliking the direction that Druckmann decided to take, but it seemed to set a new bar for storytelling in video games, so it is ripe material for adaptation. However, overall the series is faithful to the game and fans can expect to see many of the scenes, characters, dialogue, and settings that were in the game rendered pretty accurately in the show.

The Last of Us co-showrunner Neil Druckmann confirms that the HBO adaptation won't go beyond source material, unlike Game of Thrones.

[drop us a message here](https://wikiofthrones.com/contact-us). R. George R. “I don’t have any interest in a spinning-plates-go-on-forever show,” co-creator Craig Mazin told THR. “We won’t run into the same issue as ‘Game of Thrones’ since ‘Part II’ doesn’t end on a cliffhanger,” he added, referring to the game’s sequel, The Last of Us Part II. Video games have been a part of pop culture ever since they were introduced about half a century ago.

While it was initially a shame to hear that The Last of Us Part II was not going to launch with a Factions multiplayer mode, this quickly dissipated when it ...

[Druckmann continued](https://www.naughtydog.com/blog/the_last_of_us_10th_anniversary_kickoff?sf174194040=1), “With a team led by Vinit Agarwal, Joe Pettinati, and Anthony Newman, the project is shaping up to be a fresh, new experience from our studio, but one rooted in Naughty Dog’s passion for delivering incredible stories, characters, and gameplay. We’ll have some fun surprises for you along the way, but later this year we will begin to offer you some details on our ambitious The Last of Us multiplayer game.” While we have yet to see any concrete footage from this much-anticipated live-service title, Naughty Dog have satiated fans with an intriguing piece of concept art.

The HBO Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey-led horror series premieres January 15. the-last-of-us-trailer-teaser-social-featured ...

Like the games that inspired it, trauma is at the blood-soaked center of this story. The Cordyceps virus which turns people into infected and monstrous clickers in the games is actually a real-world virus that only affects ants. On the horror side of things, the video dives into the fact that the show's central virus is based in reality.

Based on the award-winning PlayStation 3 video game of the same name, the upcoming horror drama stars Pedro Pascal as Joel, a rugged black market smuggler ...

As the two trek cross-country in search of the Fireflies, Joel and Ellie form a bond that only a father and daughter can develop. Although not seen in the original game, Joel reveals that he went into a dark place, stealing from others and killing those that got in his way, eventually causing his brother to desert him and join the Fireflies. [HBO Max](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7L8AGYAjrE) recently shared a The Last of Us behind-the-scenes video that teases a devastating moment for Joel early in the season. The featurette includes new footage of the upcoming adaptation and features creators [Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann](https://screenrant.com/last-of-us-season-2-timeline-games-comparison-craig-mazin/), as well as stars Pascal and Ramsey, discussing what audiences can expect in the series. [The Last of Us](https://screenrant.com/tag/the-last-of-us/) television adaptation was recently teased by HBO's latest behind-the-scenes video. Ditching the car, Joel and Sarah come face-to-face with a soldier who acts on his order to kill anyone on-sight.

HBO will allow fans excited for The Last of Us to watch the premiere episode 3 days earlier on the big screen with limited theater screenings.

HBO's The Last of Us becomes one of the few TV shows to get a theater release. [The Last of Us fix the game's timeline](https://screenrant.com/last-of-us-show-timeline-fix-game-break/) by taking on Ellie's backstory right from the start, rather than delving deeper into her past later. The Last of Us brings a different approach to the game, while simultaneously respecting the source material. The [Last of Us premiere, which has a runtime](https://screenrant.com/last-of-us-hbo-premiere-episode-runtime/) of 85 minutes, will be shown to lucky fans on January 12, three days before the series' television debut. The Last of Us brings the award-winning video game franchise of the same name to life. [The Last of Us](https://twitter.com/thelastofushbo/status/1610699853071540227) shared on Twitter a new poster and information on how audiences can watch the show on the big screen.