Who says The Last of Us says zombies, but not only. In its first season, the series proved to be much more than a horror series featuring the living dead, and that was the creator’s intention, as revealed by Francesca Orsi, HBO’s director of drama programming and development.
In an interview with Deadline (via ComingSoon ), he actually recalled his reaction when Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin first pitched The Last of Us to them. He revealed that he didn’t originally play the zombie series, but instead focused on exploring family and Joel and Ellie’s relationship.
Craig didn’t start with that. While the zombie nature of the show and its plot has a great fun factor, it really focuses on this kind of love story, the relationship between Pedro Pascal’s character and Bella Ramsey’s character, Joel and Elise, and the exploration of family and family. The ways in which Ellie becomes Joel’s surrogate daughter after the tragic death of her biological daughter: This is what I think affected us the most. And it was the intense, deep exploration of love and family that he sought that won us over.
It can be said that the show has really followed this direction, betting on the impact as much as on the horror – as evidenced by the famous episode 3 with Bill (Nick Offerman) and Frank (Murray Bartlett), which especially moved the fans.
Season 2 pre-production The last among them Affected by the ongoing writers’ strike in Hollywood, final auditions for the cast of this new season have been temporarily suspended. It is not yet known if this will push back HBO’s expected release date for the highly anticipated Season 2 of the hit horror drama. Rumors only talk about a return in 2025: so you will have to be patient.
Meanwhile, The Last of Us Season 1 is available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.
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