Why “Last of Us” Didn’t Work As A Film – Dark Horizons

Shortly after it first came out, a film adaptation of Naughty Dog’s critically acclaimed video game “The Last of Us” was in the works.
Then it spent years languishing in development hell at Screen Gems and Sony, frozen until HBO came in and picked up the property as a TV series that things finally got underway on the adaptation.
So why could they never get it to work as a movie? Game director Neil Druckmann, who wrote the proposed film and is heavily involved in the series that is being produced,…

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