How HBO’s ‘The Last of Us’ Avoided the ‘Mistake’ of Video Game Adaptations: ‘Let’s Only Have as Much Violence in This Story as Is Required’

In the 2013 Sony Playstation 3 video game “The Last of Us,” you play (mostly) as Joel, a hardhearted smuggler who must transport a teenage girl, Ellie, through a post-apocalyptic American landscape riddled with zombies — and worse. Players must guide Joel and Ellie as they navigate through dilapidated office buildings and snowed-in ski resorts, […]