HBO Casts GAME OF THRONES' Bella Ramsey as Ellie in THE LAST OF US Series
HBO has cast young Game of Thrones actress Bella Ramsey in the role of Ellie in its upcoming series adaptation of the hit video game The Last of Us.
The story “takes place twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed. Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse across the U.S. and depend on each other for survival.”
Ramsey, who played Lyanna Mormont in Game of Thrones, will play the 14-year old Ellie, an orphan who has never known anything but a ravaged planet. In the series, “she struggles to balance her instinct for anger and defiance with her need for connection and belonging as well as the newfound reality that she may be the key to saving the world.”
Ramsey was fantastic in Game of Thrones and is a talented young actress. I think she’s going to be great in the role of Ellie!
The project is being developed by Craig Mazin, the creator of HBO’s acclaimed limited series Chernobyl. He wrote the show and is executive producing with Neil Druckmann, the writer and creative director of the game. The pilot for the project will be helmed by Russian filmmaker Kantemir Balagov, who directed the drama Beanpole.
It’s said that HBO is “aiming for a serious dramatic tone for the adaptation.” The rest of the production team includes Carolynn Strauss (Chernobyl) and Carter Swan along with Evan Wells of Naughty Dog and Asad Qizilbash from PlayStation Productions.
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Source: Variety