Emmy-winning Chernobyl director Johan Renck joins HBO's The Last Of Us adaptation
Back in March, about a week before the spread of the coronavirus was officially recognized as a pandemic, HBO announced that it was developing an adaptation of Naughty Dog’s The Last Of Us video game—a critically acclaimed, widely beloved story about a grizzled survivor and a girl who becomes his surrogate daughter making their way through a United States that has been utterly devastated by a virus that turns people into monsters. Trust us, it was a lot more exciting pre-COVID-19. Anyway, the surprising prestige hook of HBO’s adaptation plan was that its Last Of Us limited series would be run by both Neil Druckmann (the game’s writer and creative director) and Craig Mazin, the creator of the similarly acclaimed Chernobyl miniseries, who are essentially the absolute ideal duo to be making this thing.
