The Last of Us was conceived to be ‘the opposite of Resident Evil’

There is little more than a week left for HBO to premiere the series of The Last of Usone of the most anticipated adaptations by the players that turns a benchmark in the world of video games into a television series in which Joel and Ellie will be played by Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey.

Given the imminent premiere, some of the creators of the video game or the series such as Neil Druckman They are granting interviews like the one we were able to read yesterday in El Español or the statements we shared with you today made to The Hollywoord Reporter.

At one point in that interview Druckmann was asked about the influences that had given features to the first The Last of Us and what they wanted to achieve when creating the game that, according to the creator himself, was easy to categorize into “zombie survival horror“.

However, Druckmann assures that they wanted to do “the opposite of Resident Evil, which I love, but it’s very over the topfighting giant spiders and everything revolving around the variety of enemies”, pointing out that The Last of Us focuses more on plot or personal relationships. “How about we discuss intimate relationships like the unconditional love a father has for his daughter and the beautiful and horrible things that can come out of it?”

Precisely, that depth of the characters and the narrative have been one of the pillars of success of The Last of Us which, by the way, drinks from the influence of works such as the film sons of men or the novel city ​​of thieves.

The adaptation was not created thinking of achieving a percentage of fidelity

Another point to take into account in the series of The Last of Us is that it has not been adapted by setting a “fidelity percentage” and they have deviated from the story told in the game when warrantedbreaking up the story to pass it from the controller to the small screen.