Blog dedicated to all of the latest news on The Last of Us since 2014.
The Last of Us HBO series has received 3 Golden Globes nominations including:
Best Television Series - Drama
Pedro Pascal - Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama
Bella Ramsey - Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Drama
Huge congratulations to everyone involved!
Check out the new trailer for a new mode coming to The Last of Us Part II remastered next month called No Return Mode.
IMDb has released its Top 100 lists for 2023. The Last of Us came in first place for the Top Series of 2023 list.
Bella Ramsey got first place for Top Breakout Star of 2023 and Pedro Pascal received first place for Top Star of 2023. Congratulations to everyone involved with this amazing show!
The Last of Us™ Part II Remastered full game for the PS5® console
Experience the winner of over 300 Game of the Year awards now with an array of technical enhancements that make The Last of Us Part II Remastered the definitive way to play Ellie and Abby’s critically acclaimed story.
Native PS5 enhancements
Built for the PS5 console, The Last of Us Part II Remastered enhances the original PS4 game in ways not possible before, including:
• A host of graphical improvements bring the beautiful-yet-dangerous world to life.
• Visual performance now outputs at 4K in Fidelity Mode.
• Improved loading times more quickly let you jump into action.
• Full DualSense™ wireless controller integration.
- Return – A Roguelike Survival Mode
Experience The Last of Us Part II’s deep combat via an entirely new mode! Survive as long as you can in each run, as you choose your path through a series of randomized encounters.
Play as a host of different unlockable characters, some never-before playable in The Last of Us franchise, each with unique gameplay traits.
The variety of challenges feature different foes and memorable locations from throughout Part II, all culminating in tense boss battles.
New ways to play:
• Delve deeper into this beloved adventure and learn how the original game was created.
• Lost Levels lets you explore early-development versions of three new levels not seen in the original.
• Enjoy hours of new developer commentary to hear insights into Part II’s development as you experience the game.
• Live up to your musical potential with Guitar Free Play, which includes new unlockable instruments, or take on the new Speedrun Mode* and post your best times.
• Descriptive Audio and Speech to Vibrations have also been added to Part II’s suite of accessibility features.
• The Last of Us Part II Remastered also features brand new unlockable character and weapon skins for players to use for both Ellie and Abby.
The release for this edition will be coming January 19th, 2024! Preorders go live December 5th.
And good news for existing owners of The Last of Us Part II on PlayStation 4, you will be able to upgrade to a digital version of the Remastered for just $10 USD at launch. You will also be able to import your saves from the original game.
This new Armored Clicker PVC figure standing at 8.75" tall is now available for pre-order for $59.99 over at darkhorsedirect.com. The figure was sculpted, prototyped and painted with stomach-churning detail by artists at Level52 Studios.
Offering meticulous detail and authenticity from bloody twitching hands to tattered clothes, this terrifying collectible is a perfect addition to any The Last of Us fan's collection.
The Last of Us HBO series has officially become the first video game show adaption to be nominated for Emmy awards! The nominations include:
- Outstanding Guest Actress In A Drama Series: Anna Torv as Tess
- Outstanding Contemporary Costumes For A Series: Cynthia Ann Summers, Kelsey Chobotar, Rebecca Toon, Michelle Carr
- Outstanding Directing For A Drama Series: "Long, Long Time". Directed by Peter Hoar
- Outstanding Drama Series
- Outstanding Picture Editing For A Drama Series: "Endure and Survive". Edited by Timothy A. Good, ACE and Emily Mendez
- Outstanding Sound Editing For A Comedy or Drama Series
Source: emmys
Here's a look at the new The Last of Us Part II Clicker Statue that is now available for pre-order from darkhorsedirect.com!
In partnership with Naughty Dog, Dark Horse Direct is helping fans celebrate 10 years of The Last of Us with the all-new, limited edition Clicker Statue! Bringing to life the terrifying, Cordyceps-infected creatures, this exclusive collectible features an enraged, roaring Clicker, poised to attack.
Sculpted in disgusting detail from fungal face to tattered clothes, the clicker crouches 12-inches tall on a 10-inch base, and is sized to scale with our previous statues of Joel, Abby, and Ellie with Bow. Relive the most intense moments of The Last of Us Part II with this polyresin recreation of the iconic third stage of the infected, meticulously crafted by the artists at Level 52.
Limited to pre-orders placed by August 2, 2023, fight for survival and add the Clicker to your collection today!
BELLA RAMSEY: Well, they offered it to me, so I said yes because I wanted to do it.
PEDRO PASCAL: I didn’t know what the game was, but HBO had sent the scripts over, and I was put through a process of auditioning. Not a terribly arduous one, but one that had to be related to having read the scripts. I realized in reading episodes 1 and 2, that once Joel met Ellie, it was a part that you undeniably had to chase and play.
I was blown away by the world of it. And though I wasn’t familiar with the game, I was familiar with Bella, and with Craig Mazin, and I wanted to do it. It intercepted me in a very specific way. I had a plan for the next couple of years, and within a 24-hour period, this project intercepted everything because of how special I thought it was. And then I found out that it was this big f*ucking popular game that people lose their minds over.
RAMSEY: Yeah, that was exactly it. It was a lot.
Describe your first meeting with one another. How did you approach having to build this relationship of faux father and daughter in a way?
PASCAL: I think it’s surreal [looking back at it], the amount of pressure we felt that was not imposed upon us at all. If anything, I feel like it was inappropriate that they hadn’t asked us to do more. What I mean is I met you simply because you were coming to get your hair cut in the trailer and not because you were coming to meet me or that Joel and Ellie were going to meet.
RAMSEY: Right. It was a byproduct. You were on your lunch break.
PASCAL: It was this byproduct because we were shooting the first episode, and then you had arrived, and you were — everyone was — put in quarantine and borders were still closed. And there were very important protocols being abided by, and that could be a big part of it. But there was an artful part of not really trying to force anything to happen and the feeling of the confidence of casting, which I found to be utterly delusional [laughs]. I was like, “How could you know that you’d have a hit casting me with Bella?” Like, how did they know? Somehow, they did. And I think through a form of real decency [and eagerness] to start, we cared very much how the other felt. And that gradually brought us to a bond that is very deep. Plus, Bella is a Libra, and I am an Aries, so that means polar opposites just attract, we complement one another.
RAMSEY: There was no bonding. It was very much showing up on set as just who you are.
PASCAL: We didn’t have a choice. And I feel like we did — in an unspoken way — by taking one another’s cues and not putting pressure on one another, and yet still hoping that she approved of me or vice versa.
RAMSEY: Exactly. It was like, here, meet the person you’re going to spend the rest of the year with. And that’s cool, and I think it worked out. I think our relationship grew and developed as Joel and Ellie’s did. No, actually, Joel and Ellie initially were very estranged and had a lot of anger and resentment towards one another. We didn’t have that. We were just shy of each other. And now that I think about it, us being trapped in the car together for episode 3 did a lot for us.
PASCAL: Yeah, that and the walking. [There is] so much walking.
RAMSEY: So much walking. Do you remember you wanted to rename the show, Come Walk With Us?
PASCAL: Just Walk With Us. Because we were on that trail [in episode 3], and we had to go back to the beginning of it every single time. It was a long-written scene, and the sun was blazing.
Craig Mazin’s screenplays are unique and so meticulous that he even includes a character’s inner thoughts as dialogue on the page. As actors, what was your experience like working with such highly-detailed material as opposed to something a little less structured?
RAMSEY: [The process] was so easy, and I think we were very supported by them and held by the writing and the detail. There wasn’t a moment that I was unsure of who the character was. And yeah, he writes character thoughts in the stage directions, which I loved. They were the best scripts I’ve ever read. Craig hates praise, he hates being told that he’s good, but he’s a genius.
PASCAL: [Incredulously] He loves it! He absolutely, period-ly loves it.
RAMSEY: I strongly disagree.
PASCAL: He needs it.
RAMSEY: He needs it, but he hates it.
