During Screen Gems’ panel at the San Diego Comic-Con today, director Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead, Spider-Man) took to the stage alongside The Last of Us creator Neil Druckmann to discuss their plans for a movie based upon the hit PlayStation game (as well as debuting the teaser poster you see to your right).
Raimi is producing the adaptation, with Druckmann handling scripting duties, as well as having final say on the choice of director and casting. And as for who they want to star as lead character Ellie, the duo revealed that they’ve met with Maisie Williams, who plays Arya Stark in Game of Thrones.
“It’s gonna be a great character journey, a great love story, and great horror fiction,” said Raimi. “What’s unique is that Neil’s writing the script. I have a great deal of confidence we’re going to end up with a script that’s true to the strengths of the game.”
Are you looking forward to a movie version of The Last of Us, and would you like to see Maisie Williams as Ellie?
Originally published July 25, 2014. Updated April 15, 2018.
