17-year-old English actress Maisie Williams, best known for her role as the courageous Arya Stark on HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” has been in the running to play Ellie in the video game adaptation The Last of Us, and has now used the magic word “Yes” in talking with IGN about how her casting is progressing.
Although her name was dropped by producers at this summer’s San Diego Comic-Con, according to Williams she was not familiar with the action-horror game franchise until fans on Twitter–including Ashley Johnson, original voice of Ellie–fan casted her for the role, so she got her American agent to set up a meeting.
The Last of Us follows hardened survivor Joel and Ellie, a young and capable girl, on their journey through a radically transformed world. Set twenty years after an infectious pandemic spread by the cordyceps virus ravaged the course of humanity, these two people, who were brought together by chance, must make life-altering decisions in order to survive. The Last of Us explores themes of survival, loyalty, love, and redemption in an emotionally charged expedition across a post-epidemic United States.
Naughty Dog’s Neil Druckmann will pen the screenplay and co-produce the film along with Co-Presidents’ Evan Wells and Christophe Balestra, Game Director Bruce Straley, and Sam Raimi via their Ghost House Pictures banner.
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