In an interesting move, HBO is keeping the actor for Marlene from The Last of Us games for the television adaptation. The Hollywood Reporter says Merle Dandridge will once again play Marlene.
Casting for HBO’s
The Last of Us series is picking up steam and the series’ latest recruit comes in the form of an actress that’ll be all too familiar to fans of the video game.
Update (5/28/21): According to Deadline, actress Merle Dandridge is the latest to join the cast of HBO’s upcoming series adaptation of
The Last of Us.
Dandridge is no stranger to the post-apocalyptic world that gamers were first introduced to when the video game of the same name was first released for PlayStation back in 2014.
In the past Dandridge has voiced the character of Marlene in both
The Last Of Us: Merle Dandridge Reprising Marlene for HBO Series
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Jasmila Žbanić (
Kantemir Balagov (
Neil Druckmann (game franchise) and
Craig Mazin s live-action HBO series adaptation of
The Last of Us, it looks like a member of the video game franchise will be making the jump to the highly-anticipated cable series.
THR is reporting exclusively that
Merle Dandridge is set to portray the resistance leader Marlene- the same role they voiced in both video games. Dandridge joins a cast that includes
Pedro Pascal (Joel),
The Last of Us (Images: HBO Max/Naughty Dog)
Based on the critically acclaimed video game developed by Naughty Dog exclusively for the PlayStation platforms, the story takes place twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed. Joel (Pascal), a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie (Ramsey), a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as
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Pedro Pascal (Joel),
Bella Ramsey (Ellie), and
Kantemir Balagov (
Neil Druckmann (game franchise) and
Craig Mazin s live-action HBO series adaptation of video game franchise
The Last of Us. Joining Balagov are Academy Award nominee
Jasmila Žbanić (
The Last of Us is coming to HBO (Image: WarnerMedia)
Based on the critically acclaimed video game developed by Naughty Dog exclusively for the PlayStation platforms, the story takes place twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed. Joel (Pascal), a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie (Ramsey), a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse across the U.S. and depend on each other for survival. Ramsey s Ellie is a 14-year-old who has never known anything but a ravaged planet, struggling to balance her instinct fo