Last years game of the year winner, The Last of Us, will be getting the Hollywood treatment. While this isn’t the first time we’ve heard news of the game getting a feature film, some first details about the movie has been announced. Sam Raimi (Spider-Man trilogy, Evil Dead) will be producing the movie while Neil Druckmann, who worked as the game’s director, will be handling the script.
Raimi and Druckmann has mentioned that they were in talks with 17 year old actress Maisie Williams (better known as Arya Stark in HBO’s Game of Thrones) to play Ellie. The actress as well as the rest of the team have not confirmed that she will indeed play the role of Ellie, however the news has gotten fans of Game of Thrones and The Last of Us excited.
The film is still a while off, however things are going at a good pace with the crew and potential cast members all excited and confident about the project.