Game of Thrones’ Maisie Williams Excited to Play Ellie in The Last of Us Film Adaptation
Steve Barton
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It’s been awhile since last we heard anything regarding the Sam Raimi-produced feature film adaptation of the incredible video game The Last of Us, but that changed today when IGN caught up with Arya Stark herself! The “Game of Thrones” star, Maisie Williams, offered the following update:
“It’s looking like, ‘yes’,” said Williams of the possibility of playing the game’s hero, Ellie. “There was a whole thing that went on Twitter [of fans suggesting me for the role],” she explained. “I didn’t know a lot about [the game]. I Googled it. Ashley Johnson — who did Ellie’s voice — [fans] asked her what she thought of me, and she said, ‘That’s pretty much my dream.’ I don’t follow her, but I was silently stalking her wondering what she thought of all this.”
“So the way it was left is they want me to do it, and I want to do it. And when I got my American agent, and he said, ‘If there’s anything you want to do, let us know’ — America’s got such that can-do attitude. That was the first time I came to him with anything. So he said he’d set us up for a meeting next time I’m in America. And they did. So I had a meeting with [producer] Sam Raimi and [game director] Neil Druckmann. And they said they’d love if you would moderate the panel at Comic-Con, but you’d need to watch the walk-through and know your shit because there are massive fans of this and we wouldn’t want it to go wrong.”
“I was doing so much work for Thrones that I didn’t want to half-arse do it, so I said I’m not going to [moderate]. They said fine, but they’re gonna announce they had talks. So the way it was left is they want me to do it, and I want to do it. But there’s no script, no director, and no anything else. So at this moment, it’s looking like, ‘yes,’ but it’s still such early days. If they make it in 30 years, they can’t have a 40-year-old Ellie. So at the moment, it’s looking good, and I’d love to do it. Hell yeah.”
The Last of Us film will be an adaptation of the game rather than an original story. Druckmann is handling scriptwriting duties. No start date or release date for that matter has been announced.
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