Parts of The Last of Us Movie to be "Quite Different" to the Game

The Last of Us creative director Neil Druckmann has revealed that the movie adaptation will strip the game's narrative down to its essentials.

Speaking with MCVUK, Druckmann explained that there was, predictably, a lot of rewriting involved in morphing a 15-hour narrative experience into a two-hour one.

“I'm in the middle of it now, and it's been super difficult because there's so much that happens in The Last of Us – even just in the cinematics – that can't fit in a film," said Druckmann, "let alone all the gameplay in-between and dialogue.”

Druckmann explained that a lot of detail in the game has had to be chopped in order to maintain focus on its central duo, Joel and Ellie.

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