Maisie Williams Says ‘It's Looking Like a Yes’ for THE LAST OF US
It sounds like Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams is ready to get to work on Sam Raimi's big screen adaptation of the hit video game The Last of Us. During an interview with IGN, she talked about how her casting was progressing and she told them that "it's looking like a yes."
Williams, who plays Arya Stark in the HBO fantasy series, was a huge hit at this year's San Diego Comic-Con. It was there that her name was dropped as being in the running to play the character Ellie from the popular horror-action game. According to the actress, she wasn't familiar with the The Last of Us until fans on Twitter, which included Ashley Johnson, the original voice of Ellie, fan casted her for the role. It's at that point that she got her American agent to set up a meeting. She said,
“I had a meeting with [producer] Sam Raimi and [game director] Neil Druckmann. They said they’d love ‘if you would moderate the panel at Comic-Con, but you’d need to watch the walk-through and know your s*** because there are massive fans of this and we wouldn’t want it to go wrong.’ I was doing so much work for ‘Thrones’ that I didn’t want to half-arse do it, so I said I’m not going to [moderate]. They said fine, but they’re gonna announce they had talks. So the way it was left is they want me to do it, and I want to do it. But there’s no script, no director, and no anything else. So at this moment, it’s looking like, ‘Yes,’ but it’s still such early days. If they make it in 30 years, they can’t have a 40-year-old Ellie. So at the moment, it’s looking good, and I’d love to do it. Hell yeah.”
The story follows "hardened survivor, Joel, and Ellie, a young and capable girl, on their journey through a radically transformed world. Set twenty years after an infectious pandemic spread by the cordyceps virus ravaged the course of humanity, these two people, who were brought together by chance, must make life-altering decisions in order to survive. The Last of Us explores themes of survival, loyalty, love, and redemption in an emotionally charged expedition across a post-epidemic United States."
Druckmann is currently writing the screenplay, so I have high hopes for this movie. One thing is for sure, Williams is perfect for the part.