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Merle Dandridge earns the distinction as the only actress in HBO's The Last of Us to reprise her role as Firefly leader Marlene from the Sony & Naughty Dog video games Why is that? Let's break down a few things First, the original game was released in 2013, and Dandridge's character is already an adult,[...]

So it's pretty safe to say, based on the numbers released by HBO/HBO Max this, that a lot of us were curious to see if Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin's Pedro Pascal (Joel) & Bella Ramsey (Ellie)-starring The Last of Us lived up to its hype When the smoke settled on Sunday night's debut, the series[...]

While you never want to jump the gun on these sorts of things, after one episode, it would appear that HBO has a serious awards season contender in Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin's Pedro Pascal (Joel) & Bella Ramsey (Ellie)-starring The Last of Us. And based on what critics & viewers are saying, it would appear[...]

When Neil Druckmann recruited Craig Mazin to adapt Sony and Naughty Dog's The Last of Us to an HBO series, there were some obvious questions on how it would differentiate itself from its other zombie apocalypse contemporaries At the heart of the series are Joel and Ellie, played by Game of Thrones alum Pedro Pascal[...]

In three days, viewers will finally get their chance to feast on Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin's Pedro Pascal (Joel) & Bella Ramsey (Ellie)-starring The Last of Us. To keep the excitement levels going for the highly-anticipated HBO series, the cast has been hitting the late-night circuit to promote the series… and they brought preview clips[...]

Close to a year after the news hit that HBO was giving Sam Levinson's Emmy Award-winning, Zendaya (Spider-Man: No Way Home) & Hunter Schafer-starring Euphoria a green light for a third season, the 2023 Golden Globes is honoring Zendaya for her second season brilliance In a category that included Emma D'Arcy (House of the Dragon),[...]

When HBO decided to adapt Sony and Naughty Dog's videogame franchise The Last of Us as a TV series, there were obvious creative challenges on how it would translate on the small screen Would it be more action-oriented like the games, or would it expand more on the universe providing more character exposition? At the[...]

HBO Max is launching The Last of Us Podcast, the series' official companion podcast hosted by Troy Baker (who voiced Joel in the video game) Premiering in tandem with the show on Sunday, January 15, the podcast will release new episodes each Sunday (nine episodes in total.) Source: HBO In The Last of Us Podcast, Baker sits down with series[...]

If there's one thing the HBO adaptation of The Last of Us is able to expand upon the original 2013 Naughty Dog video game is the Cordyceps fungal infection that caused the apocalypse Given the game's original popularity on Sony's PlayStation 3, ND not only remastered the game for PlayStation 4 in 2014 but also[...]

The HBO series, like the video games, focuses on an apocalypse brought on by the fungus that infects its victims, leaving them as ravenous zombies As it lingers, it mutates, changing the infected into… something worse The duo spoke with Collider about building the narrative. Image: HBO How 'The Last of Us' Distinguishes Itself from Other Apocalyptic[...]

His latest is as Tommy, Joel's (Pedro Pascal) younger brother, in the HBO series adaptation The Last of Us, based on the Naughty Dog Sony PlayStation videogame franchise of the same name The role was originally voiced by Jeffrey Pierce in the 2013 game, who will play Perry, an original character for the live-action series[...]

Hmmm… Image: DC Comics/HBO Max Screencap Now, here's a look at Gunn's tweet from earlier today offering a rundown of his day: My day: wrote 1/3 of an unannounced DC TV show (😃); ok'd 100 VFX shots, did reference acting for Rocket, & gave editing notes for Vol 3; & had two big DC Studios meetings pic.twitter.com/tmtuTbz1uF — James[...]

With January 15th right around the corner, HBO is offering a different approach when it comes to previewing Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin's Pedro Pascal (Joel) & Bella Ramsey (Ellie)-starring The Last of Us Up until now, the cable network's done a pretty great job of selling us on the dangers that Joel & Ellie face[...]

Those moves have ranged from scrapping HBO Max's completed Batgirl film and pulling TBS' Chad only hours before it was set to premiere its second season to canceling/pulling animated series from HBO Max (to name just a few examples) Now, with the company eyeing this year's streaming merger between HBO Max and Discovery+, Warner Bros[...]

With only 11 days to go until Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin's Pedro Pascal (Joel) & Bella Ramsey (Ellie)-starring The Last of Us hits HBO & HBO Max screens, to say that fans of the video game franchise are more than a bit curious about what Druckmann & Mazin have planned would be an understatement[...]

Discovery-owned HBO pulling the plug on a fifth & final season that was reportedly being negotiated over shortly before the news broke Adding salt to the wound, Warner Bros Discovery pulled the series from HBO Max, reportedly looking to license it out to FAST streaming channels One of those disappointed by the news was James[...]

HOTD writer Sara Hess teased what's to come in the second season. HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (Image: HBO/HBO Max) House of the Dragon Season 2 "Blood and Cheese" "We are currently writing the finale of Season 2," Hess told Variety "I don't think you will be disappointed." Among other things includes the "Blood and Cheese" plotline, which is[...]

HBO & showrunner Ryan Condal's House of the Dragon killed it with critics & viewers alike (receiving an early Season 2 go-ahead and a lot of love from some "Best of 2022" lists), and there's strong buzz building for more details on Kit Harington's GOT spinoff sequel Snow But even with that, the "bigger picture"[...]

With less than three weeks to go until Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin's Pedro Pascal (Joel) & Bella Ramsey (Ellie)-starring The Last of Us hits HBO & HBO Max screens, Mazin has made it pretty clear why this video game adaptation has an advantage over previous video game adaptations "It's an open-and-shut case: this is[...]

And that's what we have to report regarding Station Eleven showrunner Patrick Somerville (Netflix's Maniac) and what he shared last week regarding the possibility of the HBO Max series being released in a physical copy form Considering what's going on over at Warner Bros Discovery and how it's made shows "disappear" for financial write-off reasons,[...]

With 2022 coming to a close, it was time for HBO & HBO Max to roll out a look at what's to come in 2023- and there's a lot still to come For this go-around, we have our first footage from Issa López (Tigers Are Not Afraid / Vuelven) & Barry Jenkins' (The Underground Railroad)[...]

Both Emma D'Arcy and Olivia Cooke were able to do so much with their relatively small screen time as the older versions of Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen and Queen Alicent Hightower in the HBO series House of the Dragon (splitting time with Milly Alcock and Emily Carey, who played the characters' younger counterparts in the first[...]

The fact that they kept it so grounded and really made you feel – I had never experienced anything like it, and I've been playing video games since 1977," he shared. Image: HBO But even as amazing as the storytelling elements may be, not all of them translate well into live-action, giving Druckmann & Mazin a chance[...]

If you're a fan of HBO Max and BBC One's His Dark Materials, you might be concerned that the UK's The Independent only gave the series adaptation of Neil Gaiman's works only two stars, calling it "plodding and humourless." To be clear? They shouldn't be concerned about the review as much as they should be[...]

ET/PT, here's a look at the official trailer for HBO's The Last of Us: HBO's The Last of Us: A Look Back… Based on the critically acclaimed video game developed by Naughty Dog exclusively for the PlayStation platforms, the story takes place twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed Joel (Pascal), a hardened survivor, is hired[...]

Matthew Needham (Doctor Who, Sanditon) plays Lord Larys Strong in HBO Max's streaming sensation House of the Dragon With so much violence, death, incest, and abuse, the loyal advisor and confidant to the Queen still managed to shock audiences with a bizarre display of dominance as he enthusiastically revealed the spies in Red Keep to[...]

Similar to Joffrey on the original HBO series, Aegon's ascension to the Iron Throne was a controversial one as his father, King Viserys I Targaryen (Paddy Considine), picked his daughter Rhaenyra Targaryen (Milly Alcock, Emma D'Arcy) to be his successor Yet, Queen Alicent Hightower (Emily Carey, Olivia Cooke) declared that Viserys changed his mind while[...]

And with the clock ticking on next year's HBO Max & Discovery+ merger, the cuts have been wide and deep And while we've seen shows such as The Nevers, Westworld, Minx, and others not only canceled but confirmed to be pulled from HBO Max this week, those are only a few of the series, films,[...]

As fans of Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire are painfully aware, his core novel series on which HBO's Game of Thrones universe is based has been two books away from completion for quite some time Over ten years and counting… but who's counting? Condal offered up a round or two of "I know[...]

Our Flag Means Death has officially finished filming the second season of the immensely popular comedy series by HBO Max That sentence shouldn't sound ominous, but then again, those who worked on Minx didn't believe they'd be wrapping up their second season as it got canceled and removed like a mind wipe from Men in Black[...]