Right here’s a sentence that I by no means thought I’d kind: The Final of Us airs its first episode tonight on HBO and HBO Max.
It’s a surreal feeling. Simply suppose: In a couple of brief hours, Joel and Ellie will likely be launched to all the world in an entire new medium. I’m extremely grateful to the crew at Naughty Canine, HBO, Sony Footage Leisure, PlayStation Productions, and naturally the solid and crew members that helped get us to this historic second.
I’m significantly thrilled that we discovered Pedro and Bella to play our iconic leads, Joel and Ellie. I can’t look ahead to the world to expertise their portrayals and the remainder of these unforgettable characters in a completely new manner.
Naughty Canine’s Co-President Neil Druckmann additionally wished to drop by with a fast message for you people:
“It’s been an unimaginable honor (and one in all my life’s highlights) to collaborate with Craig Mazin and the crew at HBO to convey The Final of Us to life as a TV present. Intense pleasure doesn’t start to explain my emotions to how the present turned out. I deeply imagine it captures the soul of the sport that so lots of you might have fallen in love with. As you possibly can think about, I’m extraordinarily excited (and very nervous) for PlayStation and Naughty Canine followers to dive into the primary episode and expertise for themselves the love the solid and crew has poured into this adaptation. From myself and all people at Naughty Canine, thanks! It is because of your unimaginable ardour and assist that this present exists! We’re ceaselessly grateful! Endure and survive!”
– Neil Druckmann, Co-President, Naughty Canine
And one other fast be aware for you The Final of Us veterans. The HBO present follows the broad beats of the general story from the sport, and is sort of trustworthy in tone and spirit. However hopefully it gained’t come as a shock that this isn’t a beat-by-beat, line-by-line adaptation of the video games. Neil, Craig and the manufacturing crew took this chance to weave in new characters, themes, and areas — solely the place they felt true to the characters and the world, the “soul” of The Final of Us. Generally this was finished to develop on concepts solely briefly explored within the video games, or as a result of it higher served the narrative construction of an episodic present.
However relaxation assured, The Final of Us stays true to the soul of the video games. I hope you’ll be a part of us tonight, and undoubtedly tell us what you suppose!
