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More photos from the set of HBO's The Last Of Us have surfaced online, giving fans the first look at the cordyceps infection that wipes out most of the world's population in the games.
If you haven't already heard, which might well mean you spend a lot of your time under a rock, PlayStation has teamed up with HBO to adapt The Last Of Us into a TV show. Filming is underway in Canada right now which has led to photos from the set leaking on an almost daily basis. The Last Of Us might be set in an almost deserted apocalyptic world, but unfortunately in the real one, there are people lurking with camera phones.
The photos to have made it onto social media today offer up one of the most interesting and detailed looks at the set so far. Even though they have been taken from a distance, they offer up the very first look at the cordyceps infection from the games. For those who haven't played them, that's the weird stuff creeping its way up the walls behind Joel, Ellie, and Tess.
If you have played the games, you will know how accurate a depiction of the infection this is. It also goes to show just how much effort and detail is going into this show. Understandably so too as apparently each episode has a budget of more than $10 million.
The fungal infection is what causes the world to descend into an apocalypse in The Last Of Us. The shots also show that filming is moving along nicely, although the show is probably not being taped in chronological order. While it's not easy to determine when exactly in the first game the scene being filmed represents, it looks like it might be (spoiler alert) right before Tess sacrifices herself so Joel and Ellie can escape.
Since HBO is still in the process of filming The Last Of Us, there's no clear indication of when exactly it will be coming to HBO Max. 2022 is the goal for the show's creators, providing nothing holds up production. It probably won't be until the end of the year though, and will likely be at least 12 months until the debut episode airs.