{"id":498040,"date":"2023-01-12T01:11:52","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T01:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=498040"},"modified":"2023-01-12T02:23:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T02:23:12","slug":"how-hit-video-game-the-last-of-us-turned-into-an-hbo-series-starring-pedro-pascal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/how-hit-video-game-the-last-of-us-turned-into-an-hbo-series-starring-pedro-pascal","title":{"rendered":"How hit video game ‘The Last of Us’ turned into an HBO series starring Pedro Pascal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Showrunner Craig Mazin is no stranger to taking bleak material and turning it into a crowd- pleasing hit. Mazin, best known for 2019’s Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning miniseries “Chernobyl,” now helms “The Last of Us,” a new dystopian drama on HBO. “I’m a huge fan of the game,” Mazin, 51, told The Post, referring to the popular video game on which the show is based. “I played it when it came out in 2013. For video games, it’s always nice to see a situation where nobody has any metaphysical or supernatural powers. “The storyline … came down to this one relationship. It just felt like there was a TV show in there, trying to get out,” he said. “But I thought, ‘Whoever this [game creator] Neil Druckmann guy is, he’s never going to let me near it!’  Years later, I did ‘Chernobyl’ and I’m looking around to find out what my next thing is. Neil [Druckmann] watched ‘Chernobyl’ and Shannon Woodward,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Showrunner Craig Mazin is no stranger to taking bleak material and turning it into a crowd- pleasing hit. Mazin, best known for 2019’s Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning miniseries “Chernobyl,” now helms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-tv-videos"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}