We told you a long while back that the status of a feature film version of Sony’s hit video game The Last of Us was looking pretty bleak, and with the passage of time things have only gotten worse.
Sam Raimi updated IGN on the latest…
“Well, unfortunately that one — when we went to Neil [Druckman of game publisher Naughty Dog] with Ghost House Pictures, we were hoping to get the rights like we do any project and then we’d take it out and sell it but we’d control the rights. With this one he went to Sony — who I have a very good relationship with — but they have their own plans for it and I think Neil’s plan for it — I’m not trying to be political — Neil’s plan for it is not the same as Sony’s. And because my company doesn’t have the rights, I actually can’t help him too much. Even though I’m one of the producers on it the way he set it up, he sold his rights to Sony, Sony hired me as a producer by chance, and I can’t get the rights free for him so I’m not in the driver’s seat and I can’t tell you what Sony and Neil together will decide on. If they do move forward, I’d love to help them again.”
Raimi continues, “Yes, I’m attached to it. I’m not too sure what that means. Right now it’s just sitting there. They don’t want to move forward, and it’s not my place to say why, and Neil, I think, is in a slight disagreement with them about how things should go so there’s a standstill. And I don’t have the power to move it.”
The Last of Us centers on the unlikely pairing of a young girl and a hardened scavenger in a post-apocalyptic world.
