Even though I’m one of the producers on it the way he set it up, he sold his rights to Sony, Sony hired me as a producer by chance, and I can’t get the rights free for him so I’m not in the driver’s seat and I can’t tell you what Sony and Neil together will decide on. And because my company doesn’t have the rights, I actually can’t help him too much. And I think Neil’s plan for it - I’m not trying to be political - Neil’s plan for it is not the same as Sony’s. With this one, he went to Sony - who I have a very good relationship with - but they have their own plans for it. “When we went to Neil with Ghost House Pictures, we were hoping to get the rights like we do any project and then we’d take it out and sell it, but we’d control the rights. Three years later, it looks like the The Last of Us movie is as good as dead.Ĭreative differences have been cited with Neil Druckmann, TLOU creator and all round good egg, not quite seeing eye-to-eye with Sony, as producer Sam Raimi confirmed back in 2016: With the post-apocalypse still in vogue, it seemed like a shrewd decision to kill two birds with one stone, to capitalise on the morbid popularity of life after the end of the world and also the broad appeal of one of the most revered games of all-time. The unusual father/daughter dynamic at its core would lend itself well to any script, bringing more realistic stakes than most of the adaptations we’ve seen to date.Īnd that’s exactly what Screen Gems thought when they snapped up the cinematic rights back in 2014.
If there is ever to be a video game adapted to the big screen that would break the infamous curse, it will be The Last of Us: Naughty Dog’s sumptuous and harrowing journey across a post-apocalyptic America.
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