Nick Offerman Confirmed To Be Playing Bill in HBO's THE LAST OF US Series
We recently learned that Nick Offerman has joined the cast of HBO’s The Last of Us. At the time of the reveal, there was no information on what his involvement was. It’s now been confirmed that Offerman will take on the role of the character Bill.
Bill was originally supposed to be played by Con O’Neill, but he had to drop out of the project due to a scheduling conflict. So, Offerman will appear as Bill alongside Murray Bartlett as Frank, two post-pandemic survivalists living alone in their own isolated town.
The series also stars Pedro Pascal as Joel, and Bella Ramsey as Ellie. The story for the series “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.”
Gabriel Luna takes on the role of Tommy, Joel’s younger brother, “a former soldier who hasn’t lost his sense of idealism and hope for a better world.” Merle Dandridge will play Marlene in the series, the head of the Fireflies, “a resistance movement struggling for freedom against an oppressive military regime.”
Craig Mazin, the creator of HBO’s acclaimed limited series Chernobyl, wrote the series and is also executive producing with Neil Druckmann, who is the writer and creative director of the game. Druckmann is also set to direct an episode of the series.
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. Kantemir Balagov is directing the pilot episode of The Last Of Us.
Source: Variety