The Last Of Us Film Appears To Be On Hiatus

It was no surprise when Sony announced they would be adapting The Last of Us into a feature film, but the question was if the film would ever actually come out. We have had so many studios announce video game movies, but most of the time they barely even get past a completed script. The ones that do get released… well just look at the Rotten Tomatoes score for the Hitman movies.

While speaking to IGN, director on Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Neil Druckman, revealed that no progress has been made in over a year on the film adaptation of the wildly popular post-apocalyptic PlayStation game.

"I know I said in an interview a while back we had a table read, got the script to a good place and it kind of entered development hell like these things tend to do," he explained. "There hasn't been any work done on it in over a year and a half."

Neil Druckman was one of the men at the helm of development on The Last of Us and helped write the script for the film that is now stuck in development hell. The film (if it ever gets off the ground) is to be produced by Sam Rami (director of The Evil Dead and the original Spider-Man trilogy). Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams was also being eyed to play the role of Ellie in the live action film.

All hope is not lost, however! The untitled Uncharted film is moving along slowly but steadily. Druckman mentioned how Naughty Dog isn't nearly as involved in the process of that film as they were with The Last of Us movie. The studio has been bringing in updates "every once and a while" to show how much progress they are making and the team provides feedback where they can.

"We'll tell them what we think works, what we think doesn't work," Druckman said. "That's where we're at. Last I heard is they got a new screenwriter, but we haven't seen anything in a while.

"Our approach is just to steer them back to those relationships," he added. "The most important part to get right is Nathan Drake, [his] relationship with Elena and [his] relationship with Sullivan. If you don't get that right, I don't think the film's going to work. If you get that core right, there's a chance it could work."

In case you are curious to see what Naughty Dog has planned in the near future, Uncharted 4: A Thief's End releases on May 10th exclusively on PlayStation 4 and will mark the end of Nathan Drake's story.