Executive shaper and co-creator Craig Mazin celebrated the quality successful a statement. "I'm truthful grateful to [fellow co-creator] Neil Druckmann and HBO for our partnership, and I'm adjacent much grateful to the millions of radical who person joined america connected this journey," helium shared Jan. 27. "The assemblage has fixed america the accidental to continue, and arsenic a instrumentality of the characters and satellite Neil and Naughty Dog created...I couldn't beryllium much acceptable to dive backmost in."
Druckmann, an enforcement shaper and writer of the 2013 video game, echoed Mazin's excitement. "I'm humbled, honored, and frankly overwhelmed that truthful galore radical person tuned successful and connected with our retelling of Joel and Ellie's journey," helium said. "Now we person the implicit pleasance of being capable to bash it again with play two!"
The bid stars Pascal arsenic post-apocalyptic subsister Joel, who is tasked with smuggling young miss Ellie (Ramsey) retired of their quarantine zone. His extremity is to yet usage her earthy immunity to the Cordyceps corruption to find a cure earlier the full satellite turns into zombie-like clickers.
The Last of Us is HBO's second-largest debut—falling conscionable down Game of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon. In conscionable 2 weeks, 22 cardinal radical person already tuned into the premiere episode, per the network.