HBO’s The Last of Us adaptation added three new cast members, including the actor who plays Tommy in the game series.
However, actor Jeffrey Pierce will not be reprising his role as Joel’s brother as the character is already played by Gabriel Luna (Agents of Shield).
Instead, Pierce will play a rebel in a quarantine area, Deadline reports.
Other new cast additions are Murray Bartlett (The White Lotus), who will play Frank, and Con O’Neill (Chernobyl), who will play Bill, two post-pandemic survivors who appeared in the original game The Last of Us.
In February, Game of Thrones cast Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey were cast to play the show’s main characters, Joel and Ellie. Daughter of actress Thandie Newton, Nico Parker (Dumbo) plays Joel’s daughter Sarah.
The adaptation of The Last of Us is the first television series from PlayStation Productions, a studio formed by Sony Interactive Entertainment to adapt its original game properties for film and television.
Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin co-writes and produces the show alongside Naughty Dog co-chair Neil Druckmann. Filming began this month, with production scheduled to end in June 2022.
The series is expected to cover the events of The Last of Us, released in 2013, and may include content based on The Last of Us Part 2, which launched in 2020.
Druckmann, who is the creative director of the Last of Us games, said some of the show’s dialogue has been removed directly from the game, although the TV series is not a direct cover of the Naughty Dog title and some episodes ” will even deviate greatly ”from the source material.
“For example, in the game there is so much action that you have to train the player in the mechanics,” he told IGN. “You have to have more violence and more spectacle to an extent than you would need in a TV show because you don’t need to train people to use a gun.
“So it’s something really different, and HBO has been great in pushing us to move away from hardcore action and focus more on character drama. Some of my favorite episodes so far have gone down considerably. left out of history, and I can’t wait for people to see them.
A story preview has already been written for a potential The Last of Us Part 3, but it’s not currently in development, according to Druckmann.
However, Naughty Dog is reportedly working on a PS5 remake of the original The Last of Us.
