Craig Mazin, the creator of the award-winning HBO miniseries Chernobyl is a wanted man. He’s currently working on a script for Eli Roth-directed Borderlands movie as well as on the possible reboot of the Pirates of the Caribbean. And now, The Hollywood Reporter says that Mazin is once again teaming up with HBO to adapt the critically-acclaimed video game The Last of Us.
The Last of Us was published by Sony and Naughty Dog in 2013 for Playstation 3. This zombie horror survival game follows a hard-bitten smuggler and a 14-year-old girl on their terrifying and heart-breaking journey across the devastated continent. As so often happens in zombie horrors, it turns out that the greatest monsters are people. The Last of Us was a commercial and critical success. In an unprecedented and welcome move, HBO also hired the game’s creator Neil Druckmann to help Mazin adapt The Last of Us for television. Druckmann was a game designer on the first Uncharted game in 2007. When it succeeded beyond expectations, he was given free rein for The Last of Us. Druckmann devoted the last several years working on its sequel that’s coming out on May 29.
