We’re still about a year away from HBO’s “The Last of Us” TV series, but excitement for it scored an uptick recently when an HBO promo trailer included the first few scant seconds of footage.
It seems it’s not just Naughty Dog fans who are keen for what’s to come, but the people at Naughty Dog itself.
Matthew Gallant served as a designer on the original game and as game director of the ‘Part 1’ remake, which hit stores this past week. Talking with EW, he’s basically giddy about the brief footage of the HBO series he saw and how it’s obvious those in charge are paying attention to detail:
“It gave me goosebumps to watch the [HBO] trailer, as little footage as that was. I felt like I was wanting to watch it over and over again and catch all the little details.
They really, really care about the art direction. That two-second clip of the infected embedded in the wall. That looks like it’s right out of the game. The way the characters’ outfits look. The way certain lines are delivered in that trailer.
That’s often not true in video game adaptations. They often take really big creative license with the original franchise. This looks like it’s just gonna be so authentic to the original games. And as someone who loves the original games, I’m so excited to see that being explored in a different medium.”
The live-action series is executive produced and co-written by “Chernobyl” creator Craig Mazin and original game writer Neil Druckmann. Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Gabriel Luna, Anna Torv, Jeffrey Pierce, Merle Dandridge, Murray Bartlett and Nick Offerman star.
