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The Last Of Us Movie Stalls In Production
Two years removed from its initial announcement, the film based on Naughty Dog masterpiece The Last of Us has joined Halo and other high-profile game adaptations in production hell.
While talking to IGN, producer Sam Raimi opened up about the problems, citing infighting between creative director/writer Neil Druckmann and Sony about the film's direction. "When we went to Neil with Ghost House Pictures we were hoping to get the rights like we do any project, and then we’d take it out and sell it but we’d control the rights.," he says. "With this one he went to Sony – who I have a very good relationship with – but they have their own plans for it and I think Neil’s plan for it – I’m not trying to be political – Neil’s plan for it is not the same as Sony’s."
Raimi then followed up by saying he is still attached to the project. "I'm not too sure what that means," he admitted. "Right now it's just sitting there. They don't want to move forward, and it's not my place to say why, and Neil, I think, is in a slight disagreement with them about how things should go so there's a standstill. And I don't have the power to move it."
To read more about the film's production problems, head over to IGN. Before you go, you can watch this discussion between our own Ben Hanson and Druckmann about the film.
Our Take
When you get too many cooks in the kitchen for a film, the competing interests often derail these types of transmedia deals. Here's hoping that Naughty Dog, Sony, and Raimi's production house can straighten out the problems and move forward.
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