'It became very clear, very quickly how much people loved the game, and the experience of playing the game, and that was scary.'TheLastOfUs:
are up against something perhaps equally ominous: a devoted legion of video game fans waiting with bated breath to see how the HBO adaptation holds up to their hopes and dreams.
The series, based on the hugely popular Naughty Dog video games, centers on Joel , a grizzled and traumatized man who is charged with smuggling a 14-year-old girl, Ellie , across the country in the hopes that she may be the key to developing a cure to whatever has mutated part of the population into cannibals.
"Ellie was trickier, because Ellie was portrayed by Ashley Johnson brilliantly in the game," he continued. "Ashley was a woman in her 20s playing a 14-year-old girl, so what you get from the game is this interesting, far more sophisticated 14-year-old than you would imagine."
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