The Last of Us: Coming HBO series with a megabudget?

Meanwhile, Cast and Crew have found the video game adaptation "The Last of Us" at the filming location, as some performers themselves had announced with a photo . Based on a current interview, the responsible production companies would probably seem to invest a real megabudget in the project to protect the playstation 3-game appealing by Naughty Dog.

The Last of Us: High Eight Playing Budget for an Episode?

More specifically, Damian Petti, President of Iatse 212 Calgary reported to speak and talked to a journalist of CTV (via WireduPreport ). This is an association of film and theater creators, artists as well as technicians, in Canadian Alberta.

According to Petti, the "The Last of Us" production is a "gigantic project", which is why it was already called "monster". For example, as he performs, for example, five kind of director and hundreds of technicians would work on the series, whose filming should take about a year. The preparations for the recently started production were already lasting six months.

Another topic While it interviews was also the budget of the series that will run at the Sender HBO. As Petti explains, the "The Last of Us" series may be "the largest film project in Canada." An exact budget can not call it, but the cost of a single of the ten episodes would "Significantly an eight-digit sum" exceeds.

How high the production budget of the video game filming will be accurate, however, it is difficult to estimate. Filmstudios themselves rarely indicate the exact budgets of their works, which is why they are often based on estimates of trade magazines or industry insiders.

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It would be conceivable that the "The Last of Us" adaptation per episode could devour a budget of 15 million to 25 million US dollars. In this order of magnitude, other large productions of recent years, as "Game of Thrones" (Season 8), "The Mandalorian" or "Marvel's Wandavision".

PlayStation Productions, Sony Pictures Television and WarnerMedia Entertainment work together for the production of the upcoming "The Last of Us" series. The script comes from the pen of Craig Mazin ("Chernobyl"), which oversees the series with Neil Printant as an Executive Producer. The main roles Play Pedro Pascal (Joel) and Bella Ramsey (Ellie). The HBO series has not yet a start date.

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