Wrong Choice for The Last of Us
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BulmaPunkRocker — 11 years ago(November 11, 2014 08:57 PM)
I think she's a very good choice for Ellie.
Maisie is a fresher face than Chle "Hit-Girl" (I love Chle, don't get me wrong), fits in the age range, and I think she can pull off the look.
There's a lot of people around the world who's not that much into GoT, and she is an actress, Hollywood can make her look different from Arya Stark!
Please excuse my terrible redaction, english is not my native language. -
DoctorWeeTodd — 10 years ago(January 06, 2016 06:03 PM)
Casting Maisie Williams as Ellie is typecasting and just retreading old ground.
I mean she plays a little girl who has to travel across a ravaged continent with a gruff man with few moral lines left to cross, becoming a hardened killer along the way. In the end she reaches her destination but does not achieve what she wanted.
Not to mention at the pace the project is moving at she will be too old. (Although she'll still have a baby face.) Changing Ellie into a young adul5b4t instead of a child will lose some of the impact.
I am not sure a "The Last of Us" movie is a good idea in the first place. The game was moving not just for the story on screen, but how it was told and the journey and experience it took us through. Since it was such a long game, I really felt like I spent a year traveling with her by the end. Making a movie will cut drastically the time we will get to spend with these characters. It also doesn't follow a traditional 3-5 act movie structure.
I still trust Neil Druckmann though.