It's a good few months since we heard anything about The Last Of Us, the adaptation of the much-lauded videogame which Sam Raimi is producing for Screen Gems. Buried in a story about the development process of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, however, GameInformer have ascertained that the film is at least still moving forward.
"It's coming along really well," says screenwriter/producer Neil Druckmann (a Naughty Dog veteran who also wrote The Last Of Us in game form and co-wrote all four Uncharteds). "I just finished the second draft and we did a table read with a bunch of actors. It's pretty faithful to the game. There are some big changes, but the tone and what the story's trying to say is pretty faithful."
A brief update then, but an intriguing one. Many of the most strident online voices have already declaimed that The Last Of Us barely needs any adaptation to make it a perfect movie. Significant plot changes - even if the overall tone and thrust remain the same - may prove controversial...
Hitting shelves in June of 2012, The Last Of Us in game form followed hardened survivor Joel and a young girl named Ellie. Twenty years after an infectious pandemic derailed the course of humanity, the odd couple had to make a dangerous journey through the radically transformed world.
There's no release date or director attached yet, and no cast in place - although it'd be interesting to know who was sitting around that table. Raimi revealed at last year's Comic-Con that talks had been happening with Game Of Thrones' Maisie Williams, but no announcements have yet been made about contracts being signed. We will, of course, keep you posted.
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