At the front page – The creation of Craig Mazin is the model of what daring writing can bring to a great spectacle. Dystopia places the bar even higher for this season 2, broadcasting for mid-April on max.
May 2019. Neil Druckmann, creator of the successful apocalyptic video game The Last of Us is storage by ChernobylHBO series which depicts the race against the watch and the sacrifice of the Soviet firefighters and “decontaminators” after the disaster. He contacts his screenwriter, Craig Mazin. An author’s curiosity to author. “I wanted to know how he had assembled the pieces of this puzzle and how long he had devoted it”.
To his surprise, he discovers that Craig Mazinhitherto known for his fatty comedies on the big screen (Very Bad Trip, Scary Movie), is a fervent follower of The Last of Us. The current passes so well that Neil Druckmann plans to adapt with him his cult game (some 17 million copies sold) depicting a humanity devastated by a parasitic fungus which transforms its hosts into vegetated undead.
Emotional impact
Protector of his work, Neil Druckmann had indeed been scalded by the previous cinematographic: Mortal Kombat
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