The Last of Us - HBO Series [Spoilers after episodes have aired -- no game spoilers]

[getbak]

This is 9 episodes with a total budget around $100 million.

Compare that to Thor: Love & Thunder, which cost $250 million and had a total run time that was shorter than the 2 episodes of TLOU that have aired.

Even though it's one of the most-expensive tv shows ever made, its budget pales in comparison to a big-budget action movie.

[Coys1882]

Are those production costs only or include salaries as well? Hemsworth, Bale and Portman must garner a significant percentage of that right?

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by Coys1882

Are those production costs only or include salaries as well? Hemsworth, Bale and Portman must garner a significant percentage of that right?

Includes salaries. For this show, Pedro's salary is $600,000 per episode.

[nfotiu]

Season 2 picked up by HBO

https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/the...hbo-1235504485

[jayswin]

**** yeah. Now let's hope they A) pick southern Alberta for filming again and B) Get out here this summer so we don't have to wait 2+ years to see season two.

[Wormius]

… C) this doesn’t become another Walking Dead.

[Johnny Makarov]

There is no way this would be another walking dead. Kirkman wrote walking dead as a never ending story...

and then one day he ended it without notice to any of the comic stores or the distributor. Pretty kyitty move. They even made up fake covers for future issues in the pre-ordering system.....

[Shazam]

He ran out of ideas. Fair enough.

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by Shazam

He ran out of ideas. Fair enough.

Oh for sure he did. He just kept on recycling ideas near the end. I must have read the first 16 graphics 5 or 6 times. Never even bothered to read the final 4. I have no idea how it ended. lol

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov

Oh for sure he did. He just kept on recycling ideas near the end. I must have read the first 16 graphics 5 or 6 times. Never even bothered to read the final 4. I have no idea how it ended. lol

The Zombies did it.

[devo22]

will be interesting to see how they go about structuring season 2 and onwards. Do they jump straight into the second game? I guess they could easily split the second game into two full seasons, there's just so much stuff that they could highlight there if they chose to do so.

and I wouldn't be shocked if Part 3 was already on the horizon by the time they are done covering the second game.

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Originally Posted by nfotiu

Season 2 picked up by HBO

https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/the...hbo-1235504485

more Alberta on the big (small) screen!

[Cole436]

Originally Posted by jayswin

**** yeah. Now let's hope they A) pick southern Alberta for filming again and B) Get out here this summer so we don't have to wait 2+ years to see season two.

If season 2 is following the story of the second game, unfortunately I think there’s little chance it’s staying in southern Alberta

Originally Posted by Wormius

… C) this doesn’t become another Walking Dead.

I think there’s zero risk of that happening

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by Cole436

I think there’s zero risk of that happening

Cautiously optimistic.

[accord1999]

There's no shame in becoming another TWD, considering it was the biggest show on TV for like 7 years and had a major impact on the Georgia film industry and economy.

[GreenLantern]

No. We don't want another TWD, we want something new.

TWD was glacial slow, had so many useless story lines and got sloppy in consistency of zombie capabilities.

Give me a truncated focused story line and I'll gladly take 2 years of great over 8 years of meandering.

The first two episodes of this show are far greater than anything TWD did in its whatever many seasons it went for.

[chemgear]

They were willing to make and tell the story that they wanted in the face of internet basement dwellers and old man bigots with the games.

And just like the games, happy to see the massive positive (financial) response to a quality show.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by Cole436

If season 2 is following the story of the second game, unfortunately I think there’s little chance it’s staying in southern Alberta

I think there’s zero risk of that happening

I would assume they would primarily base the show in Vancouver with the BC film industry for part 2 since the story mostly takes place in the Pacific Northwest/Seattle.

I agree very small chance they remain in Alberta

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

TWD had its moments in the middle part of the show

from terminus to the end of the conflict with the saviors it was pretty watchable, and I tried to hate it

definitely too many undercooked characters with no redeeming qualities and plot dead ends through

& god the spinoffs were horrible. I could hardly watch 10 minutes

hopefully tlou keeps things tight and focused, start to finish

[chemgear]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...lKHqoWouflq5Tc

Albertans wanting to experience first-hand the scenes from the big-budget television series The Last of Us — minus the Hollywood stars and deadly fungus — have a new tool at their disposal.

Travel Alberta created an interactive map detailing all the Alberta locations featured in the series, updating the map each week with locations spotted in the latest episode.

"I definitely think a lot of locals and Alberta residents are really proud of having this production, this amazing high-end production come to the province. We're getting lots of comments from locals, lots of support, lots of enthusiasm. Everyone's just really proud."

"In my circle of friends and my staff's circle of friends, we've all definitely noticed kind of a pickup of … people that we know posting a story on Instagram or sharing something online about a local site that was in Calgary and a lot of them have been heritage buildings," Trapow said.

"I think it's a great opportunity to showcase Calgary as a filming destination, and then I think there's going to be some more modern buildings that are going to be featured."


https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer...tfgJbF2hFx6pcY