Producer reveals why Sam Raimi's The Last of Us movie was aborted

The American TV series "The Last of Us", adapted from the classic game, will be aired on January 15 next year. Recently, the producer and screenwriter (also the game producer) Neil Drakeman revealed to foreign media the reason for the abortion of the film version. The company asked to make it like "World War Z", but he and the director only wanted to make it like "No Country for Old Men", and their creative concepts conflicted.

In 2015, Sony's Screen Gems originally planned to shoot a movie version and found "Spider-Man" director Sam Raimi to be the director. At that time, it was rumored that Maisie Williams, who played "Arya" in "Game of Thrones", would play Ellie. Neil Drakeman said: "At that time, the film company executives kept emphasizing that it should be bigger and sexier, but we were not very willing."

As time goes by, the movie version has now become a TV series. The heroine has been changed to Bella Ramsey, the "Lady of Bear Island" from "Game of Thrones", and the male lead Joel is played by Pedro Pascal, who has also appeared in "Game of Thrones".

It is reported that the first episode, which will be aired on January 15, is 85 minutes long. Neil Drakeman revealed that compared with the game, the TV series version will have less violence.