The Last of Us Movie: Amidst Sony Boss’ Regret After the HBO TV Series’ Immense Success, Jeffrey Pierce Gives His Take: “Was Never Gonna Be a Great Movie”

The prestigious drama spectacle of 2023, The Last of Us, on HBO Max is breaking new records with every single episode. But as the television series is collecting praise from all over the world, the Studio executives at Sony expressed their “jealousy” for not adapting the IPs before into a movie. 

While the studio higher-ups believe it would have made a great movie, one of the main actors of the series came forward saying it was never meant to be adapted for the silver screens. With a direct statement, the episode 4-5 famed actor called them out, who planned to adapt the Last of Us as a movie. 

The Last of Series Movie was a bad idea?

While Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin lead ‘The Last of Us’ show on HBO Max is garnering accolades and praise from some of the most respectable critics in the world, the distributor of the original 2013 game, Sony, have expressed their thoughts about the series and believing it was a missed opportunity for them to not adapt it for the movies. 

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Sony Pictures Entertainment film chairman Tom Rothman said he wished that the studio had gone ahead and adapted the game as a movie. Despite his unfulfilled wish, he still expressed positive remarks about the HBO series. He said, “I’m very happy for them and I think it’s better suited episodically. I’m jealous in the best way.”

On the other hand, the actor who played the rugged veteran in the episode, Jeffrey Pierce, believes the series was never supposed to be a movie. He simply thinks there is just too much story for it to be crammed into a 2-3 hour big screen adaptation. Where the television series has done justice to it by giving it the right amount of breathing space. 

“As good as it was, it was never gonna be a great movie,” continued Jeffrey, “In a two-hour runtime, how are you gonna tell 14, 17 hours of story? Then I think that there was some conversation about it maybe being an animation motion-capture movie series at some point, and that seemed like a good idea, but we’ve been down that road. So how would that become special?”

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