#Last of us joel tv#
There’s no release date yet for the TV series, but it's set to premiere on HBO (and likely HBO Max) as early as this year. A page for describing Characters: Last of Us - Joel and Ellie. The game won multiple awards thanks to its heart-wrenching story, and its sequel, 2020’s The Last of Us II, was equally as successful. Joel helps Ellie out of a quarantined Boston and eventually across the country in the hopes of finding a cure for the virus that’s wreaked havoc on society. In the first game, Joel serves as the main protagonist and is tasked with escorting the young Ellie across a post-apocalyptic United States in an attempt to create a potential cure for an infection to which Ellie is immune. In the games, he is portrayed by Troy Baker through motion capture and voice acting in the upcoming television adaptation, he will be portrayed by Pedro Pascal. The game is set 20 years after a devastating infection turns most of mankind into zombie-like creatures. Joel Miller is a fictional character in the video games The Last of Us and The Last of Us Part II by Naughty Dog.
#Last of us joel series#
So, The Last of Us TV series will see Pascal tasked with escorting another youngling, but a teenage girl rather than Baby Yoda. Stoked to have Pedro aboard our show! - Dr. Joel is a hardened survivor living and working as a hunter then a smuggler and arms dealer in a post-apocalyptic America. Fans of Game of Thrones will also remember Ramsey, who played Lyanna Mormont.Īaaaand there’s the other half. Joel Miller is the main protagonist and playable character in the videogame The Last of Us, he also appears as a minor protagonist in The Last of Us: Left Behind and as the overarching protagonist in The Last of Us Part II. Pedro Pascal is most well known for his titular role in The Mandalorian, though he also played Oberyn Martell in Game of Thrones. Comments (Image credit: Naughty Dog) The Last of Us fans are praising HBO for the level of detail found in a shot of Joel and Ellie in the upcoming The Last of Us TV show. The designers have got Joel’s backpack down to a T already. Quote-tweeting reports from The Hollywood Reporter and Deadline Hollywood, Druckmann revealed Joel will be played by Pedro Pascal and Ellie will be played by Bella Ramsey. The Last of Us fans are impressed with how accurate Joel is in HBO show. We're absolutely thrilled to have Bella join the TLoU family! - Dr. Druckmann is who confirmed casting on 10 February 2021. The series will be helmed by Craig Mazin, creator of the TV series Chernobyl, as well as Neil Druckmann, president of Naughty Dog Studios and director of The Last of Us game. The Last of Us is set to be the first TV series from PlayStation Productions, which plans to produce both shows and films from PlayStation’s catalogue. Now, one of the showrunners has confirmed who has been cast to play the main characters of Joel and Ellie. We also recently got a picture of Pascal on the set this time without a mask, courtesy once again of on Twitter.(Pocket-lint) - HBO announced in March 2020 that it planned to develop a live-action TV series adaptation of Naughty Dog’s hit 2013 video game The Last of Us. Also recently, a Twitter account that posts regular updates on the series, has unveiled a picture of Pedro Pascal ( The Mandalorian) on set dressed similarly to Joel Miller, albeit with a mask. In the footage the three are walking with Tess in the front, followed by Ellie and Joel a little further back, glancing over his shoulder as if scanning the area for potential threats. on Twitter posted a 14-second video from a balcony that gave a nice view of actors Pedro Pascal ( The Mandalorian), Anna Torv ( Mindhunter), and Bella Ramsey ( Game of Thrones) shooting a scene on set. So far, we have mostly seen set pictures and videos of some locations that have brought to life some key locations from Naughty Dog's videogame, but recently, new footage of the actors in character on set has emerged on the internet. With shooting for the new HBO’s The Last of Usseries underway, fans have already gotten a few sneak peeks of what to expect.