{"id":88948,"date":"2026-09-05T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88948"},"modified":"2026-09-05T04:38:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T08:38:46","slug":"before-hbos-the-last-of-us-an-entirely-different-adaptation-was-proposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88948","title":{"rendered":"Before HBO\u2019s The Last Of Us, An Entirely Different Adaptation Was Proposed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Naughty Dog&#8217;s first effort to adapt The Last of Us for the screen was not as an HBO TV show, but a movie, a fact that recently began doing the rounds again on social media. Like with many Hollywood productions, The Last of Us had a tumultuous, long development period as a movie before it was ultimately abandoned in favor of what is now a hit series.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While not everyone agrees with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/the-last-of-us-writer-expecting-furor-over-season-2\/1100-6515962\/\">creative departures from the source material<\/a> for the TV series on HBO, it&#8217;s undeniably a success and one of HBO&#8217;s biggest hits lately. Let&#8217;s look back at how The Last of Us originated as a movie and run through the key developments that led to it becoming a TV show.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>The original movie pitch<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sonypictures\/status\/492757891229552641?s=46\">People across X recently discovered a post from Sony Pictures in 2014<\/a> declaring that The Last of Us was &#8220;soon to be a major motion picture.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was a real, studio-sponsored image, not a fan mock-up. There was officially produced key art, showing Ellie wielding a knife. There was a &#8220;secret panel&#8221; at San Diego Comic-Con that year featuring director Sam Raimi, who was originally attached to produce the movie, having already had<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naughty Dog&#8217;s first effort to adapt The Last of Us for the screen was not as an HBO TV show, but a movie, a fact that recently began doing the rounds again on social media. Like with many Hollywood productions, The Last of Us had a tumultuous, long development period as a movie before it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":88950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88948"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88951,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88948\/revisions\/88951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}