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Naughty Dog Chief Neil Druckmann on Birthing ‘The Last of Us’ for TV, Adding Character Backstory That Video Game Fans ‘Will Eat Up’ in Season 2
Head of "The Last of Us" game developer Naughty Dog, Neil Druckmann teases changes from PlayStation video game to screen for HBO's Season 2.
At the same time, content creators who try to hold on too tightly to every detail of the game’s storyline will also struggle to make something that delivers as a TV show. “I just wanted to meet the guy and just gush about how much I love [‘Chernobyl’], and pick his brain about how he put it together, and how he wrote it and how long was he working on it,” Druckmann said during a Sept. 18 interview held as part of Variety Presents: Gaming on TikTok Leadership Summit. Druckmann and Mazin were in sync that the video game characters of Bill (Nick Offerman) and Frank (Murray Bartlett) needed stronger emotional grounding in order to make the episode work, as it is a big departure from the overarching plot of Pedro Pascal’s Joel fighting to bring teenage Ellie (Bella Ramsey) through decimated cities to a medical facility where she may hold the key to a cure for the disease that has plagued the planet for 20 years.
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