Having lost his own young daughter years prior, Joel is given a chance at redemption.Ĭraig Mazin ( Chernobyl) will be the showrunner, working alongside The Last of Us writer/creative director Neil Druckmann, who was recently outspoken about the game being turned into a movie.
Dodging human enemies as well as infected fungal mutants - themselves based on real-life fungal parasites - Joel is tasked with protecting a young girl named Ellie, who appears to be immune to the virus. The best-selling video game The Last of Us is finally coming to screens as a HBO series, so who should play the lead character, Joel? Joel presents actors with the exciting opportunity to play a gruff, traumatized smuggler who is trying to survive in a post-Apocalyptic America.
