He later attended Florida State University as a criminology major, which he thought would eventually help him become a thriller writer. His brother even snuck him into E3, a video game expo, in the late 1990s.
He sought escape in comic books, movies, and especially video games, particularly The Secret of Monkey Island and Metal Gear Solid.ĭruckmann’s family immigrated to Miami when he was 10, where he retained his interest in video games. He was raised in a settlement in the West Bank, where he repeatedly witnessed acts of violence, according to GQ. Early influencesĭruckmann was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1978. He also had to face down rejection from the granddaddy of all things zombies: Night of the Living Dead director George Romero. The 44-year-old drew on his upbringing in the West Bank as well as his early criminology studies in creating the original game.
Starring Pedro Pascal as a smuggler leading a 14-year-old orphan ( played by Bella Ramsey) through a zombie-infected wasteland, the critically-acclaimed series was renewed for a second season after only two episodes.īut who is the creative genius behind The Last of Us? His name is Neil Druckmann, a designer and co-writer on the original video game franchise, who subsequently became co-creator, co-writer, an executive producer, and one of the directors on the television show.ĭespite becoming a breakout hit, creating The Last of Us was anything but an overnight success story. Defying the conventional wisdom that video games make poor screen adaptations, HBO’s The Last of Us has become a pop culture phenomenon.
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