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

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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.

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