How The Last of Us TV Show Got Made

A look back at how the HBO hit "The Last of Us" was really made

Sometimes, doing less is more.

How The Last of Us TV Show Was Made
Before Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey starred as Joel and Ellie in the Last of Us TV series, there was a Hollywood executuve who approved the adaption. This is a look at how that went, maybe.

STARRING
D Richards - Michael Adams Davis
Jenkins - David Odom

Written by Michael Adams Davis and Michael Schroeder
Edited by Michael Schroeder
Produced by Brian Fisher and David Odom

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The Warp Zone is a pop-culture sketch comedy channel that’s been making funny videos about movies and TV on YouTube since 2010. This video is a parody of the HBO Max TV show adaptation of The Last of Us.

[aminehouzane]

Every studio director and writing team after seeing the last of us success:
"Let's pretend that we didn't see that shall we "

[emeraldemuto]

“Jenkins get in here!” Ah yes, my favorite opening to any video.

[Sentient_Zee]

Even when Dick is wrong, he’s always right.

[countlitmogaphil]

Warp zone videos, especially the ones related to hollywood like this one, the bob iger one and the fucking masterpiece that is the dick richards series deserve tens of millions of views

[LifesGuardian]

Not sure how you got a camera inside literally any Hollywood studio, but I like it! Keep it up!

[Overlord]

"So what did we learn from this?"

"Absolutely nothing."

Me: Yeah, that sounds about right.

[pouyamahmoudi]

I wish more video game adaptations were written by Jenkins!

[animatsuri]

Don't feel too bad Jenkins. You got to twist around episode 3 and 5 at least. Plus whatever you do to season 2 or whenever you get to adapting part 2 of the game, it won't be hated much more than what was originally in game.

[megamcee]

That last part is what truly hurts. I bet they didn't learn anything from this.

[qwefg]

You know it hurts because you can honestly believe that THIS is the reason why it succeded.

[lordbuss]

The reason The Last of Us worked as well as a series was that the game was basically written that way in the first place.

[manel]

why does the ending feel like what the producers actually thought about TLOU success

[StringCheese]

The way he says Jenkins' name at the beginning has me using the repeat button endlessly 🤣

[TheScarletSlayer]

Your videos are so accurate they hit an arrow with a bulls eye.

[AngelPerez-tunk]

Yep. Pretty neat summary of Hollywood excecs and videogame adaptations xD.

Still would want a follow up to that old videogame adaptations sketch. You know the one with prince of persia

[TheNonameHousehold]

The lesson is that when fans say they want to see a live action adaptation of a video game... they REALLY mean they want to see the exact thing they saw while they were playing but in live action, which is basically not an adaptation at all! just live action shot for shots 😅

[anto.joseph]

I wish warpzone gave us more content....just love everything

[jessetorres]

I have played The Last Of Us Part 1 at least a dozen times, & I can say that this show is the best videogame adaptation (film or movie) ever! It does what any good adaptation should do; be mostly loyal to the original source material, but change just enough so there's something new yet still enjoyable to watch. For example, about 80% of what we see in the 1st 3 episodes is from the 1st few levels of the game, but the remaining 20% is things like expanded backstory & more development for certain characters we didn't originally get.

[rogueguardian]

To be fair though show does genuinely make some noticeable changes, like when Joel askes tommy to take Ellie to the fireflies, there isn't this underserved tension between them, and Ellie doesn't run off with a horse to the abandoned house.

Instead Joel pleads with his brother to take her so he doesn't go through the trauma of loosing another daughter which Tommy reasonable understands. And Ellie gets an actual say

[lsbc]

Warp zone is pushing out some SERIOUS bangers.