Two of next year’s most high-profile and high-budget TV series appear to have set release windows, and they’re coming a little earlier than expected.
First up, the HBO Max app appears to have accidentally announced a January 15th 2023 premiere date for the highly anticipated HBO series adaptation of the acclaimed video game “The Last of Us”.
Numerous outlets and Twitter accounts, such as Naughty Dog Central, took screen captures of the app’s page for the trailer the other month with the caption for the clip seemingly revealing the date.
The current page on the app, however, has removed any date reference. There’s a suggestion HBO is going to announce the show’s official release date later this week.
UPDATE: HBO has confirmed the January 15th launch date with the show to be available in 4K via HBO Max.
To the edge of the universe and back. #TheLastOfUs premieres January 15 on HBO Max. pic.twitter.com/O9EZ73MVXr
— HBO Max (@hbomax) November 2, 2022
Elsewhere, Playtone executive and producer Kirk Saduski revealed in a video interview that the upcoming WW2 mini-series “Masters of the Air” will begin streaming “mid-Spring 2023”.
The nine-episode project, currently in post-production, will star Austin Butler, Barry Keoghan & Callum Turner as it chronicles the actions of the Eighth Air Force of the United States Army Air Forces.
Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Cary Joji Fukunaga and Gary Goetzman executive produce the $200-250 million budgeted mini-series, which serves as the third Playtone WW2 mini-series of this type following HBO’s “Band of Brothers” and “The Pacific”.
