Ten years back, when I interviewed innovative supervisor Neil Druckmann and also video game supervisor Bruce Straley concerning their brand-new, generation-defining PlayStation hit The Last of Us, they pointed out the Coen bros’ 2007 movie No Country for Old Men as a vital tonal motivation. But the reality that a playthrough of The Last of Us takes around 15 hrs, however, has actually constantly made me link it a lot more with reputation television than with films. Nowadays, an excellent several video games have reputation television feelings, which truly begun with The Last of Us.
And currently, the video game that constantly seemed like an item of the very same popular culture period that provided us reputation television such as Breaking Bad and also Game of Thrones has actually come to be reputation television. Overseen by both Druckmann and also Chernobyl writer/creator Craig Mazin for HBO, it is, naturally, a solid, durable manufacturing inside out. Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian, Game of Thrones) …
