The Last of Us live-action series will remove fungus setting

Neil Druckman and Craig Mazin, the creators of the live-action series The Last of Us, confirmed that the fungus (spore virus) that appeared in the game has now been removed from the TV series. The TV series version will be replaced by "tendrils". Some players on Reddit speculated that this may be because fungi can communicate through electronic signals.

Neil Druckman said: "There are spore viruses in the air in the game, and people have to wear gas masks. We decided from the beginning that we didn't want to show this in the TV series. In the end, we discussed and chose tendrils. Then, think about the passage from one infected person to another, just like the fungus, it can become an interconnected network. It scares me to think that they are all working against us in this unified way. This is a concept that I like very much and it has been developed in this show."

Some fans on Twitter were very upset about this. Some fans said that this completely erased one of the most interesting parts of the character of Ellie. In fact, the main reason they didn't want to do this was that they didn't want to cover the actor's face.

Some people also think that making fungi is too time-consuming, whether it is through physical props or CG, because you need to make hundreds of fungi...

The Last of Us will premiere on HBO on January 15.