antilia — 3 years ago(March 22, 2023 09:06 AM)

Could “The Last of Us” really be predicting the apocalypse?The series, which is decidedly not a zombie series despite showing infected undead, hinges on the takeover of the parasitic Cordyceps fungus, which typically infects ants and insects. In “The Last of Us,” based on the videogame of the same name, the fungus has evolved and infected humans.
Showrunner Craig Mazin revealed that the 1968 prologue in the first episode of the HBO series explained the very real possibility of Cordyceps fungus evolving due to climate change. John Hannah plays Dr. Neuman who details the evolution of the parasite.
“What I told John [Hannah] was, ‘What we’re doing in this scene is telling people this has always been here,'” Mazin told The Hollywood Reporter. “It’s real — it’s real to the extent that everything he says that fungus do, they do. And they currently do it and have been doing it forever.