The Last Of Us Movie Was Going To Be “Awful,” Neil Druckmann Says
Before HBO’s The Last of Us TV series, Sony Pictures was working on a movie version of The Last of Us. Neil Druckmann, the writer and co-director of the game, has now said the movie version would have been “awful” were it seen through to release.
Speaking to the rapper Logic (who himself auditioned for Jesse in The Last of Us), Druckmann brought up the film while talking about the HBO series. He said working on the movie helped him understand what he wanted to do with the TV series alongside Craig Mazin.
“The key to making a great show is hire the best people and make it at HBO. That’s the key to success. I think it helped that I worked on the film version that would have been awful. It would have been one of those bad adaptations had we finished that one,” Druckmann said.