Neil Druckmann tells us why HBO's The Last of Us is set 10 years earlier than the game 📅
Naughty Dog co-president Neil Druckmann has previously revealed that certain episodes of HBO’s upcoming adaptation ofwill “deviate greatly” from their source material. But, curiously, the timeline of Joel and Ellie’s on-screen adventure is in for a shake-up, too.
In the game’s chronology, the Cordyceps pandemic erupts in 2013, with the main events of The Last of Us taking place twenty years later . But in the HBO series, proceedings kick off in 2003, with the bulk of the show’s story set in 2023 Why the change? According to Druckmann, the decision to set The Last of Us in 2023 was made to “help make [the story] more real”, with showrunner Craig Mazin feeling that TV shows can benefit from taking place in familiar timelines.
Druckmann, for his part, was happy with Mazin’s preference to set The Last of Us in the present-day, piggybacking on his partner's response to say that “if it helps make [the show] more real, then it's a worthwhile change.” “It's one of those things that there wasn't a clear answer for,” Druckmann added. “We’d already moved so far away from 2013, so I felt like [the show] needed some kind of change, and I could tell how strongly Craig felt about making the bulk of the show present-day. It was one of those changes that didn't feel like we were fundamentally changing what [The Last of Us] is about, so I bought into it.
So there you have it, folks. We’ll be sharing more insights from Druckmann, Mazin and series stars Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey in the coming days, ahead of The Last of Us’ January 15 release on HBO Max in the US. UK viewers will be able to catch the show on Sky Atlantic and Now at the same time from January 16.
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