Critically acclaimed video game “The Last of Us” is being turned into an HBO television series that will be shot in Alberta over the course of a year, and it’s set to star two memorable actors from one of the network’s biggest shows of all time.
The video game is about a smuggler named Joel, who is tasked with escorting a teenage girl, Ellie, out of an oppressive quarantine zone and across post-apocalyptic America.
In the game, the country was ravaged by a fungus two decades earlier that turned most people into zombie mutants and left the human survivors hostile and cannibalistic.
However, Ellie is believed to be immune to the disease and thus, may hold the key to mankind’s survival. Pedro Pascal, 45, has been cast as Joel while 17-year-old
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