After putting a face on Ellie, HBO and Naughty Dog have officially found the star who will play Joel in the adaptation of The Last of Us for the small screen: none other than Pedro Pascal .
Quite a signing, taking into account the recent trajectory of the Chilean star: from the main character of The Mandalorian (the best of Star Wars in years) to the maximum antagonist in the recently released Wonder Woman 1984.
Pedro Pascal in Narcos, the Netflix series
Pascal is much more than the fashionable actor : his participation in Netflix’s Narcos or Game of Thrones did not go unnoticed. And that Bella Ramsey herself has also played an especially well-received role by the public in the HBO fantasy series completes the casting.
Based on the eponymous video game, The Last of US is the story of two survivors of a deadly pandemic that has struck the United States. Hardened Joel (played by Pascal) must protect a 14-year-old girl (Bella Ramsey) on a journey that will test his own limits . Both the physical and the emotional.
For its part, the project is in great hands: Neil Druckmann himself , responsible for the video game series The Last of Us, will write and produce the series together with Craig Mazin , creator of Chernobyl, one of the great revelation series of the last years.
Creatures born from the pandemic aren’t the only threat Ellie and Joel face
Among those involved in the adaptation we also find Evan Wells, president of Naughty Dog and Carolyn Strauss (Game of Thrones or Chernobyl). So the expectations are quite high . For its part, the series is part of the PlayStation Productions label.
An adaptation to match the saga? Given the seen, HBO is doing the homework and the involvement of Naughty Dog makes us especially optimistic.
