HBO Casts Anna Torv In Their Series Adaptation of THE LAST OF US
Josh Korngut
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The Last of Us HBO adaptation just snagged Anna Torv in a supporting role, Deadline reports.
Torv is best known for her roles in excellent series like Fringe and Mindhunter. The Australian actress is just the latest face to be confirmed for the HBO series, which has tons of memorable characters.
The Last of Us television series stars Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey. It’s also spearheaded by Chernobyl’s Craig Mazin and Last of Us originator Neil Druckmann.
Anna Torv will be playing the role of Tess, a character pulled directly out of the game. Anna is a tough survivor in a post-apocalyptic world who smuggles for a living.
The video game concerns America twenty years after the end of the world. Twist, the apocalypse is at the hand of a deadly virus.
Here’s a synopsis:
Joel (Pascal) smuggles Ellie out of her derelict home and brings her to the Fireflies, a cure-searching organization. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse across the U.S. and depend on each other for survival.
Other cast members announced include Merle Dandrige, Nico Parker, Gabriel Luna, Murray Bartlett and Con O’Neill.
Kantemir Balagov is directing the pilot episode of The Last of Us while Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin is writing and will executive produce the series along with Neil Druckmann.
Druckmann and Mazin write and executive produce. Carolyn Strauss also executive produces the new series along with Naughty Dog president Evan Wells.
The project is a co-production with Sony Pictures Television. PlayStation Productions, Word Games, and Naughty Dog produce.
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