Who could take Joel's place in The Last of Us?
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Despite having a few promising candidates for the position, HBO’s The Last of Us shouldn’t try to replace Joel as the lead character. The Last of Us stars Pedro Pascal as Joel, a grizzled, grieving father, and Bella Ramsey as Ellie, the surrogate daughter he reluctantly takes under his wing.
While it’s easy to switch main characters in the middle of a video game – just change the playable character to someone else and the player suddenly has a brand-new perspective of the story – replacing the lead character of a TV show is a lot trickier. Given that Joel is killed off pretty early on in The Last of Us Part II, the TV adaptation will be scrambling to find a new series lead. There are a few worthy candidates, but the show might not need to replace Joel at all.
The team behind the HBO show has already hinted that The Last of Us season 2 will skip this horrifying scene and introduce Abby long before she kills Joel. Since the TV show won’t have the benefit of forcing the audience to play as Abby, the writers will have to come up with new ways to make viewers sympathize with Joel’s killer.
HBO's The Last Of Us Adaptation Should Keep Its Focus On Ellie From the very beginning, The Last of Us has always been Ellie’s story. The first part was shown through Joel’s eyes, but this entire saga revolves around his inexplicably immune surrogate daughter. The Last of Us Part II gives a bigger role to Tommy as Ellie’s second father figure, and turns Abby into a Joel-like mentor when she takes Lev under her wing, but none of these characters should overshadow Ellie.
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