‘The Last Of Us’ Film Adaptation Has Entered Development Hell!

Briefly: Back in March of 2014, Naughty Dog revealed that Screen Gems and Sam Raimi were working on a film adaptation of Naughty Dog’s own acclaimed PS3/PS4 title, The Last of Us.

Naturally, those of us that fell in love with the game, its incredible emotion, and its fully realized post-apocalyptic world were extremely excited at the possibility, especially with a name like Sam Raimi attached.

Sadly, it sounds like things were a little too good to be true, and that the film won’t be happening any time soon. Actually, based on IGN’s recent interview with Naughty Dog’s Neil Druckmann, the film hasn’t been worked on since shortly after it was announced:

“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. There hasn’t been any work done on it in over a year and a half.”

Dang.

The interview also notes that Naughty Dog hasn’t heard from Sony in some time in regards to the Uncharted film that’s slated for June 30th, 2017, so it really hasn’t been a great day for Naughty Dog fans excited for either film.

In any case, why not play the always fun game of speculative casting? Who would you like to see as Nathan Drake? How about The Last of Us’ Ellie? Sound out below!