The Last of Us TV series finds new director for pilot episode
The Last of Us TV show simply bought a new director for its pilot episode, THR reviews.
Director of HBO’s acclaimed Chernobyl series Johan Renck was initially set to direct the pilot, however has needed to step away as a result of a scheduling battle. In Renck’s place is Russian filmmaker Kantemir Balagov, best-known because the director behind Closeness (2017) and Beanpole (2019), the latter of which premiered on the 2019 Cannes Film Festival and received Balagov the award for Best Director.
Neil Druckmann, inventive director of The Last of Us and The Last of Us 2, chimed in on the news and shared his assist for Balagov because the new director for the TV series’ pilot episode. “Kantemir is a brilliant director who shares our love for Joel and Ellie’s journey. Stoked that he’s joining the TloU family,” Druckmann wrote.
Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin remains to be anticipated to put in writing and direct The Last of Us HBO series alongside Druckmann. Mazin teased again in July that the HBO series will “expand” and “enhance” the story of The Last of Us. “I think fans of something worry that, when the property gets licensed to someone else, those people don’t really understand it, or are going to change it,” Mazin stated. “In this case, I’m doing it with the guy who did it, and so the changes that we’re making are designed to fill things out and expand, not to undo, but rather to enhance.”
The Last of Us TV series is not the one PlayStation property being tailored for TV – Sony recently revealed that it’s developing seven TV shows and three movies based on PlayStation franchises.
