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The Last of Us Creator Neil Druckmann Will Serve as Director on HBO TV Series

Since the inception of HBO’s television adaptation of PlayStation’s beloved video game, The Last of Us, Naughty Dog’s own writer and director of the game, Neil Druckmann, has been closely involved with the project. Druckmann himself has been one of the executive producers and writers of the...

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Mentioned in a new document from DGC (Directors Guild of Canada), Druckmann was mentioned as a director for The Last of Us. While specifics regarding how many episodes he might direct weren't given, his name was mentioned alongside Craig Mazin, Peter Hoar, Kantemir Balagov, and Jasmila Zbanic as some of the other directors that will be rotating in throughout the course of the series. Production as a whole is said to have also started in July of this year (which we knew), while filming is said to be wrapping up by June 2022.

 

[Elder Legend]

Neil Cuckman. Honestly. After Amy Henning got forced out by Neil and Bruce Straley left, the story went doo doo. I miss the original writers :/

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Good, hope he stays there. Games aren't TV or movies.

 

[DonJuanSchlong]

Let's see how this plays out

 

[SlimySnake]

Good for him. He will be great.

But I worry what this means for Naughty Dog if he is the creative lead on their next game. HBO will clearly take priority and if hes out for months prepping then shooting an episode then who is going to be running the show over at ND?

Let new blood run the studio for a while. Neil needs to take a break and shift to tv shows.

 

[Represent.]

Fuck yes. Guarantee you he's gonna bring top quality. This franchise is his baby

 

[AlexxKidd]

Neil Cuckman. Honestly. After Amy Henning got forced out by Neil and Bruce Straley left, the story went doo doo. I miss the original writers :/

Hell are you talking about. Neil Druckmann wrote The Last of Us.

 

[lh032]

Well his one of the writer. not suprising here.

 

[Spitfire098]

This man going to trigger the same group of people 2x. God damn what a chad.

 

[DanielMann861]

Well the wannabe film maker finally got his wish...he's a "big boy film maker" now. Maybe he will finally leave gaming behind and we can now actually get something that is fun to play from Naughty Dog again.

 

[Flutta]

Good hope he stays there. Trash writer/director.

 

[Ulysses 31]

Does this mean we'll gets lots of woman on woman violence now?

 

[Elder Legend]

Hell are you talking about. Neil Druckmann wrote The Last of Us.

Hmm I might be thinking Amy because I know for fact she wrote most of Uncharted games. I thought she did some writing for TLOU before being booted.

Bruce Straley I believe directed with Neil TLOU.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Well the wannabe film maker finally got his wish...he's a "big boy film maker" now. Maybe he will finally leave gaming behind and we can now actually get something that is fun to play from Naughty Dog again.

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Ultra rare. 0.01% of gaming employees wanting red carpet treatment have achieved this.

 

[alstrike]

Neil Cuckman. Honestly. After Amy Henning got forced out by Neil and Bruce Straley left, the story went doo doo. I miss the original writers :/

What the fuck are you on?

 

[StateofMajora]

Well the wannabe film maker finally got his wish...he's a "big boy film maker" now. Maybe he will finally leave gaming behind and we can now actually get something that is fun to play from Naughty Dog again.

Was thinking the same thing mate. But let's be honest, that studio is dead, only filled with hack activists now.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

This is why Naughty Dog is working on remakes instead of a real next gen game

Neil has been wasting his time doing the TV series instead of prototyping their next big game IP

 

[WitchHunter]

Neil Cuckman. Honestly. After Amy Henning got forced out by Neil and Bruce Straley left, the story went doo doo. I miss the original writers :/

Just listen to the TGMN episode with Amy. Very insightful. You listen to it and in the end you get an epiphany of sorts.

 

[ZehDon]

It only makes sense; he's technically directed it once already, so it makes sense to have him direct aspects of it again.

 

[Kenpachii]

All these wannabe movie makers need to move as fast as they can out of gaming.

 

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[Kamina]

Gotta make sure the golfclub and beefy Abby are displayed correctly.

 

[The_Mike]

Looks like all the movies he directed paid off. Good for him.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

What the fuck are you on?

It's just something NPCs parrot to cope with TLOU 2 not going their own way.

 

[Silver Wattle]

Just listen to the TGMN episode with Amy. Very insightful. You listen to it and in the end you get an epiphany of sorts.

What is TGMN?

 

[Woggleman]

I hope he gets Brie Larson to play Abby just to piss people off.

 

[hemo memo]

Good. Now I don't have to watch it. The Last of Us 2 is a classic example of how you fuck up a story badly. Hopefully this is not his show and actually unlike TLoU2, here they can say to him "dude wait the fuck up"

 

[Atrus]

I guess we're guaranteed flashbacks and maybe even flashbacks within flashbacks.

 

[PleaseWaitStation4]

The vandalism done to the the most recent ND games he worked on was him trying to appease Hollywood and play their game to get him this gig. Play woke, satisfy the Diversity and Inclusion gestapo and you get the job.

 

[Majormaxxx]

What is TGMN?

 

[bender]

I hope he gets Brie Larson to play Abby just to piss people off.

I hope they get QT to direct so we can get lots of close ups of her feet.

 

[Woggleman]

I hope they get QT to direct so we can get lots of close ups of her feet.

Why not. Say what you want about ND but he knows how to twist the knife on his haters and that is a good approach to life.

 

[Oddvintagechap]

Druckmann right now for Sony.

Sony feeling bad about these salty comments.

 

[WitchHunter]

What is TGMN?

the game makers notebook

 

[Whitecrow]

Yeah pls stay in the show business and stop poisoning ND.

 

[Negotiator101]

Yeah this ain't a good move at all, stick to what you're good at.

 

[GymWolf]

Hopefully he is gonna stay far away from the writing board.

 

[Javthusiast]

The vandalism done to the the most recent ND games he worked on was him trying to appease Hollywood and play their game to get him this gig. Play woke, satisfy the Diversity and Inclusion gestapo and you get the job.

 

[underwater]

TLOU2 was significantly worse than the first game from a writing and directing perspective

 

[Chris_Rivera]

Hopefully it will free up directorial duties on games. You know he's been pushing for this outcome all along.

 

[FunkMiller]

Druckman really brings out the Era style whining around here, doesn't he?

Eh, whatever on the story though. Jury's out on whether he can direct live action.

 

[Dibils2k]

his dream

never come back to games, cheers

 

[Airbus Jr]

Hope he stays there and never coming back to Naughty Dog again

 

[Lupingosei]

Great now he is finally at the place where he wanted to be.

No more interactive movies, he has now the real deal. Good for him.

 

[Cr1ptkeeper]

Expect a lot of muscle women so Neil can satisfy his fetish...

 

[nikolino840]

Good, hope he stays there. Games aren't TV or movies.

Ok but won goty and many others awards so...2+2=4

 

[Spukc]

Good, hope he stays there. Games aren't TV or movies.

 

[SSfox]

Neil Cuckman. Honestly. After Amy Henning got forced out by Neil and Bruce Straley left, the story went doo doo. I miss the original writers :/

Imo he nailed Uncharted 4 story and ending but TLOU2 story is very bad.

 

[Kev Kev]

This is going to be so bad

 

[scydrex]

Oh hell no... the only thing i hate is the story of tlou 2.