The last of us game has just been confirmed & given the go ahead to be made into a horror survival movie. Will it have the same passion & emotional content as the game or will it be a disaster on the big screen, who would you cast as the character of the game for the movie.
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This is a very risky film to make i think, it need the right director & the right casting to pull this off. I've played this game & it's a very emotional journey as well as a horror survival game, it will need these element's for this to work. I think this film will need a director like the one that done (The Book Thief ) for emotion content & a director that knows how to make a good survival horror for this to work on the big screen. This is just my opinion.
Game plot:
Joel is a single father living outside Austin, Texas with his twelve-year-old daughter Sarah. In the early hours on the day after his birthday, a sudden outbreak of a mutated
Cordyceps fungus begins ravaging the United States, which changes its human hosts into violent monsters. As Joel, Sarah, and Joel's brother Tommy flee the chaos, Sarah is shot by a soldier and dies in Joel's arms.
In the twenty years that follow, much of civilization is destroyed by the infection, with isolated pockets of survivors living in heavily policed quarantine zones, independent settlements, or nomadic groups. Joel now lives in a quarantine zone in Boston, working as a smuggler alongside his partner, Tess. They hunt down a local gangster named Robert to recover weapons stolen from them. Before Tess kills him, Robert reveals that he traded the weapons to the Fireflies, an insurgent militia fighting against the authorities governing the quarantine zones. Joel and Tess encounter the Fireflies' leader, Marlene, who promises them double their stolen cache in return for smuggling a teenage girl named Ellie outside the quarantine to a Firefly group in downtown Boston.
While escaping a patrol, Joel and Tess discover that Ellie is infected. Normally full infection occurs in less than two days, but Ellie claims she was infected three weeks ago, and suggests her immunity may lead to a cure. Fighting toward the drop-off point, they discover that the Fireflies there have been killed. Tess reveals she was bitten when they encountered the infected earlier and orders Joel to take Ellie to his estranged brother, Tommy, who used to be a Firefly. Tess sacrifices herself to approaching soldiers to give the pair a chance to escape, believing in Ellie's importance as a cure. Leaving Boston, the pair locate another smuggler named Bill in nearby Lincoln, who begrudgingly helps them acquire a vehicle.
Joel and Ellie drive westwards into Pittsburgh, where violent bandits have overthrown the military and hunt down anyone who enters. Joel and Ellie's vehicle is destroyed in an ambush, but they fight their way out and later encounter Henry and Sam, brothers attempting to reunite with a group at a radio tower outside the city. Joel, Ellie, Henry, and Sam escape Pittsburgh and traverse an Infected-filled sewer system before fighting off bandits in an abandoned suburb. A horde of Infected attack as they leave and, unbeknownst to the rest of the group, Sam is bitten. Sheltering near the tower overnight, Sam has become an Infected. When Ellie goes to wake him the next morning, he attacks her. Henry is forced to kill his brother, and in his grief commits suicide.
In the fall, Joel and Ellie finally find Tommy in Wyoming, now a member of a fortified settlement near a hydroelectric dam. Joel contemplates leaving Ellie with Tommy, but after repelling bandits and being confronted by Ellie about Sarah, he decides to stay with her. Tommy directs them to a Fireflies enclave at the University of Eastern Colorado. They find the facility abandoned, but learn that the Fireflies have moved to a hospital in Salt Lake City. They are attacked by bandits as they leave the building, and Joel is critically injured.
In the winter, Ellie and Joel take shelter in the mountains. Joel is on the brink of death and relies on Ellie to care for him. After she hunts a large stag, Ellie encounters David and James, a pair of scavengers willing to trade medicine in exchange for the meat. While James goes to recover the medicine, Ellie and David are attacked by a horde of Infected, but manage to fend them off. David reveals that the bandits Ellie and Joel killed at the university were part of his group; he allows Ellie to leave with the medicine. David sends a posse to track Ellie the following morning, forcing her to lead them away from Joel. She is captured, and learns that David and his people are cannibals. She escapes, but David corners her in a burning restaurant. Joel recovers from his fever and sets out to find Ellie, fighting through David's gang to the restaurant. He reaches Ellie as she kills David in self-defense; Joel consoles her before they flee together.
In the spring, Joel and Ellie arrive in Salt Lake City. They make their way through flooded highway tunnels but are caught in rapids. Joel rescues Ellie from drowning, but a patrol of Fireflies capture them. Joel awakens in the hospital and is greeted by Marlene. She informs him that Ellie is being prepared for surgery: to create a vaccine for the infection, the Fireflies have to remove a
Cordyceps sample from Ellie's brain, which will kill her in the process. Joel battles his way to the surgery room and carries an unconscious Ellie to the basement parking garage. There he confronts and kills Marlene to prevent the Fireflies from pursuing them.
On the drive out of the city, Ellie awakens. Joel lies to her about the events, telling her that the Fireflies tried and failed to produce a cure with other immune candidates and abandoned their work. He and Ellie arrive on the outskirts of Tommy's settlement. Ellie expresses her survivor guilt and asks Joel to swear that his story about the Fireflies is true. He does.
