HBO, PlayStation announce Last of Us TV series—the “first of many shows”

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Sony's push to create a formal film and TV studio based on its massive video game properties has finally borne official fruit. One year after its formation, PlayStation Productions has announced its first confirmed project: an HBO-exclusive, live-action TV series based on the acclaimed 2013 game The Last of Us.

Thursday's news, which HBO confirmed to Ars Technica via a press release, confirms that TLoU creative director and writer Neil Druckmann has been named as the TV series' co-writer and executive producer. While that's normally a novel thing in games-to-screen adaptations, Druckmann had already announced intentions to do this kind of thing previously, when he had teamed with Sam Raimi to turn the game into a feature-length film. HBO's announcement did not mention when or how that film project, which began life in 2014, eventually fizzled.

This time, Druckmann will be joined in his co-writer and executive production duties by a pretty big name in HBO TV series: Craig Mazin, the creator of 2019 miniseries Chernobyl.

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