Gabriel Luna announced in a new Instagram post that HBO’s The Last of Us live-action series adaptation has begun production in Canada by sharing a set photo featuring himself along with fellow castmates Pedro Pascal and Nico Parker in a car, as well as director Kantemir Balagov and cinematographer Ksenia Sereda.
In the post, which you can check out below, Luna wrote: “Already love these folks. #MillerTime.” Pascal plays Joel Miller, with Parker starring as his daughter, Sarah, and Luna playing Joel’s brother, Tommy. The photo also hints at an important scene fans of the video game will quickly recognize.
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In The Last of Us, Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey), a pair connected through the harshness of the world they live in, are forced to endure brutal circumstances and ruthless killers on a trek across a post-pandemic America.
Along with Pascal, Ramsey, Luna, and Parker, Merle Dandridge stars in the series and will reprise her voice role from the video games as Marlene, the leader of a resistance group known as the Fireflies.
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Co-written by Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin and original game writer Neil Druckmann, the series adaptation will tackle the events of the first game. Kantermir Balagov is attached to direct the pilot episode. Mazin will executive produce along with Carolyn Strauss, Naughty Dog president Evan Wells and PlayStation Productions’ Asad Qizilbash and Carter Swan. The project is a co-production with Sony Pictures Television in association with PlayStation Productions.
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Developed by Naughty Dog, The Last of Us is an action-adventure survival horror video game that has already sold more than 20 million units worldwide. The game follows hardened survivors Joel and Ellie, a young and capable girl, on their journey through a radically transformed world. Set twenty years after an infectious pandemic spread by the cordyceps virus ravaged the course of humanity, these two people, who were brought together by chance, must make life-altering decisions in order to survive.
