The Last of Us Series: Actors Reveal for Two Tragic Characters Confirms Exciting Changes
The Last of Us doesn’t take everything 1:1 from the video game.
HBO’s The Last of Us is on the home stretch. The Naughty Dog video game franchise series has wrapped and post-production is in full swing. According to Neil Druckmann, the implementation should be very close to the original – the first season will reflect the events of The Last of Us – but there will also be some changes and extensions that expand the plot and give it a slightly different structure. This is also reflected in the performance of the actors for the roles of Henry and Sam.
That changes The Last of Us from the PlayStation game
It’s all about this: Henry and Sam are two brothers fleeing human traffickers in Pittsburgh, briefly joining Ellie and Joel. Henry is played by Lamar Johnson (X-Men: Dark Phoenix) and Sam by Keivonn Woodard. Here is the official description of the two figures:
Lamar Johnson as Henry and Keivonn Woodard as Sam, brothers in Kansas City in hiding from a revolutionary movement seeking revenge.
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This is noticeable: For one thing, Ellie and Joel meet the two brothers on the show in Kansas City instead of Pittsburgh, but we already knew that from a leaked set photo. The change may have been made because The Last of Us makes huge hops as Ellie and Joel travel across the US, and only a few locations between Boston and Salt Lake City are actually shown.
The optical differences between Boston and Kansas are significantly greater than between Boston and Pittsburgh. It is quite possible that this is intended to convey a better feeling of change.
On the other hand, the description speaks of a revolutionary movement that wants to take revenge. So the hunters seem to be getting a much more distinct backstory. The fact that they want revenge on Henry and Sam also shows that there is a personal connection between the brothers and the hunters.
Here you will find an overview of all important information about the production:
HBO’s The Last of Us series
Start, Cast, Story – All known information
New Characters Revealed: In the same breath, HBO also introduced two new characters. Marlon and Florence are an elderly couple “trying to survive alone in the wilderness of post-apocalyptic Wyoming.” The two are played by Graham Greene (Dances with Wolves) and Elaine Miles (Northern Exposure). Incidentally, in Wyoming, Ellie and Joel also meet Tommy and Maria in the game.
Relevant news on the topic:
These are the dates for the start of the series and the first trailer
When will the first episodes air? There is still no specific date for the broadcast of The Last of Us. However, HBO has at least given an approximate period of time when it should start. “It’s heading towards the beginning of 2023,” it said recently. That could theoretically mean anything in the first half of the year, but the wording suggests that a launch was originally planned for this year and we 2023 relatively early (January to March) be considered with the first episodes.
The first trailer is already ready: First video material could be in a good month. An HBO employee has leaked that the first trailer for the series is likely to be released on this year’s The Last of Us Day – September 26, 2022 match the game, but there should also be completely new scenes that expand the plot. That would fit the above information.
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