While the expectation grows a few days before its broadcast, the series unveiled by “accident” the duration of its first episode.
We will have to wait until next January 15 to see the great beginnings of adaptation video game The Last of Us on the HBO channel. Since its announcement, several teasers and trailers have unveiled a preview of what the series was to offer. First with a tantalizing collaboration between award-winning series creator Craig Mazin Chernobyl and Neil Druckmann, creator of the initial saga, already at work on its sequel. Two guarantees both of the quality of the program, but also of the fidelity to the original material. The post-apocalyptic settings glimpsed perfectly depict an America devastated by an epidemic linked to Cordyceps, a terrible parasite transforming humans into fearsome “infected”.
An already convincing duo
The other great satisfaction of these first images, especially in the very last trailer, is the performance of the duo of main actors. Joel, interpreted by a cold and distant Pedro Pascal, pragmatic but secretly devastated, is as impeccable as expected. The young Bella Ramsey, sometimes poorly accepted by fans of the game, is however perfect by embodying an Ellie as adventurous, mischievous and reckless as her polygon model. It still remained to find a rhythm capable of losing nothing of the story of their video game adventures, of a duration that is not very compatible with a series.
A monstrous pilot
The producers and showrunners seem to have understood this problem well, since according to information posted by HBO Latina, the first episode should last no less than 1h25! A duration worthy of a film, able to pose the stakes and to depict the meeting of the two characters in the best conditions.
Enough to make the impatience even greater, to finally discover how the two co-creators adapted the events of the very beginning of the pandemic, and if liberties were taken, despite the presence of Druckmann, for the needs of television . Be that as it may, this duration bodes well for a start capable of attracting a large audience.