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Yesterday’s article about The Witcher got some comments along the lines of “see, it’s fully possible to make a good TV show based on a video game.” This is incorrect. The Witcher actually comes from a series of novels, which both the Netflix series and the CD Projekt Red games are based on. If we’re talking game adaptions, The Witcher doesn’t technically count.
The Last of Us, however, is 100% a show based on a game. And while it is true that most cinematic media translations of video games tend to be less than great, this property has a good shot at being what you thought The Witcher was. It’s a very cinematic, story-driven game that has a lot more for Hollywood to work with than, say, Resident Evil (surely it’s possible to not mess Resident Evil up, they just haven’t found anybody who can).
You likely know the story by now: civilization has fallen due to the spread of a vicious fungus that infects human brains and turns them into zombies. Zombie rules are usually that if...
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