The Screenwriter for THE LAST OF US Movie Does Not Want His Movie To Be Made
The Last Of Us is one of the most beloved video games to be released in the last 5 years, and it may not come as a surprise that it is being turned into a movie. One thing that is surprising is that Neil Druckmann, the screenwriter of the film adaptation, is now saying he does not want the movie to be made.
In a recent interview at the DICE Summit in Las Vegas Druckmann, who also wrote and co-directed the 2013 video game, reveals that even though he wrote the screenplay, he’d rather never see a movie adaptation get made.
Druckmann was being interviewed on stage by 10 Cloverfield Lane director Dan Trachtenberg, and was asked for any updates regarding the movie adaptations of Uncharted and The Last of Us. After confirming an Uncharted movie is still in the works, his reply about his The Last of Us movie was a little more surprising:
“…And even I worked on the script for The Last of Us film, which was a direct adaptation. And now, having some separation from it, I look back and be like, ‘I don’t want that movie to be made.’ Maybe there’s something that could be done in [that] world, either focusing on other characters or other time. But, for me – and I know for Naughty Dog and for a lot of our fans – Nolan North is Nathan Drake, Ashley Johnson is Ellie, Troy Baker is Joel. And it would be very disorienting to see someone else in that role.”
Back in 2016 we heard Druckmann and the studio were having creative differences over the direction for the movie version of The Last of Us, and this new statement seems to hint that the source of those creative disagreements is that Druckmann doesn’t want to see a direct adaptation of the game. In that DICE interview, Druckmann suggested that the idea of trying to capture the vibe of the game without actually translating its familiar characters is a better approach.
Druckmann's argument does make a lot of sense, especially if you consider that a lot of the people who played the game will probably not want to see a repeat of the same story on the big screen. What do you think?
Via: IGN