Can the Naughty Dog creative make it big on TV as well as in video games?
The gap between video games and cinema | TV has closed and what years ago was the adoption of production values to enhance the gaming experience, today is taken up by other media to adapt these stories and offer them to an audience perhaps not so familiar with this form of entertainment. HBO’s The Last of Us series is the recent success in this new stage that has delivered better film and television productions, but we will soon see if the talent for video games achieves the same result, since the second chapter is the responsibility of the co-creator of the franchise.
THE SECOND EPISODE OF THE SERIES THE LAST OF US WAS DIRECTED BY NEIL DRUCKMANN
Since last Sunday there is no other topic related to TV than The Last of Us as the series had an impressive reception. The first chapter received mixed praise and everyone is looking forward to the continuation of the story with the second episode. Well, next Sunday we will see Neil Druckmann’s way of working directly on TV since he is the one who directed the second chapter, so it will be the first test of the creative star of Naughty Dog outside of gaming.
Judging by the title of the second episode The Infected, it is almost certain that we will see with greater perspective the situation of those infected with Cordyceps, probably the origin of the disaster and its implications in this post-apocalyptic world. As noted, this entire episode is the responsibility of Neil Druckmann, co-creator (along with Bruce Straley) of The Last of Us as a video game franchise but original creator of the idea that shaped the concept.
In case you don’t know, in his university years, Druckmann participated in a contest that had George Romero, the father of zombie movies, as a jury, and it was there that he presented the idea of a world devastated by a disease and the story of a father who lost his daughter and a young woman who lost her parents, both meeting due to circumstances. However, the focus of the proposal was on the protagonists and not on the infected, so Romero rejected it and the rest is history.
