{"id":126087,"date":"2022-11-03T10:57:21","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T10:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=126087"},"modified":"2022-11-07T12:35:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T12:35:28","slug":"the-last-of-us-release-date-and-key-art-revealed-for-new-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/the-last-of-us-release-date-and-key-art-revealed-for-new-series\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Of Us: Release date and key art revealed for new series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been announced that the highly anticipated series, <em><strong>The Last of Us<\/strong><\/em>, the series based on the hugely popular <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/reviews\/the-last-of-us-part-ii-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">videogames<\/a>, will air exclusively on Sky Atlantic and NOW on 16 January. Not only that, but the series official key art has also been revealed (above).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S7vJnEp2ckM\" width=\"375\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The nine-episode series takes place twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed. Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse the U.S. and depend on each other for survival.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_125744\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-125744\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-125744 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/FL_02_The_Last_of_Us_S01-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"The Last Of Us: Videogame adaptation heading to Sky next year. Watch the trailer...\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/FL_02_The_Last_of_Us_S01-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/FL_02_The_Last_of_Us_S01-600x360.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/FL_02_The_Last_of_Us_S01-616x370.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/FL_02_The_Last_of_Us_S01.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-125744\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pedro Pascal stars as Joel and Bella Ramsey stars as as Ellie.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The cast includes Pedro Pascal (<em><strong>The Mandalorian<\/strong><\/em>) as Joel and Bella Ramsey (<em><strong>Game Of Thrones<\/strong><\/em>) as Ellie.<\/p>\n<p>The show also stars Gabriel Luna (<em><strong>Terminator: Dark Fate<\/strong><\/em>) as Tommy, Anna Torv (<em><strong>Fringe<\/strong><\/em>) as Tess, Nico Parker (<em><strong>Reminiscence<\/strong><\/em>) as Sarah, Murray Bartlett (<em><strong>Iron Fist<\/strong><\/em>) as Frank, Nick Offerman (<em><strong>Devs<\/strong><\/em>) as Bill, Storm Reid (<em><strong>A Wrinkle In Time<\/strong><\/em>) as Riley, Merle Dandridge (<em><strong>The Last of Us<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0videogame) as Marlene, Jeffrey Pierce (<em><strong>The Last of Us<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0videogame) as Perry, Lamar Johnson (<em><strong>X-Men: Dark Phoenix<\/strong><\/em>) as Henry, Keivonn Woodard as Sam, Graham Greene as Marlon, Elaine Miles as Florence, and Ashley Johnson and Troy Baker.<\/p>\n<p>The series is written and executive produced by Craig Mazin (<em><strong>Chernobyl<\/strong><\/em>) and Neil Druckmann (<em><strong>The Last of Us video game<\/strong><\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Last of Us is due to be released on 16 January on Sky Atlantic and NOW. Watch more trailers at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCzZiC_sZdNZsdP4Rskmoudg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SciFiNow YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key art, series length and the release date have all been revealed for The Last Of Us series<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":126088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Entertainment","MSN_Publish_Option":true,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[3,207],"tags":[7503],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/The-Last-Of-Us.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126089,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126087\/revisions\/126089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}