HBO’s adaptation of Naughty Canine’s famend post-apocalyptic online game, The Final of Us, was massively profitable when it aired final 12 months. However do you know that Spider-Man director Sam Raimi was initially in talks to adapt the hit sport right into a film?
Actually, Raimi wasn’t simply in talks to tackle the job, he truly had a script for the film able to go. With American movie manufacturing firm Display screen Gems (a subsidiary of Sony Footage Leisure) set to develop the film and The Final of Us creator Neil Druckmann on board with the undertaking, it was trying extremely possible that we had been going to dwell in a world the place The Final of Us can be tailored right into a film, versus the tv present everyone knows and love at present.
Nonetheless, this undertaking was all the way in which again in 2014 and ultimately fell by earlier than manufacturing started. In an interview with The New Yorker again in 2022, Druckmann stated that whereas he revered director Sam Raimi, the film was scrapped as a result of inventive variations with executives. Druckmann stated that they had been consistently asking for issues to be “larger” and “sexier.”
As many The Final of Us followers will know, the sport isn’t akin to that of a giant, attractive Hollywood blockbuster. It has a darkish story with extremely complicated characters, which requires greater than only a 2-hour blockbuster film to inform it.
HBO’s tv adaptation acquired extraordinarily excessive reward from critics and followers, with an total score of 8.7 out of 10 on IMDB. Nonetheless, whereas Season 2 is presently being filmed, a horror producer has come out to disclose that Sam Raimi’s script for the now-canned film was truly “excellent.”
Sam Raimi’s The Final Of Us Script Was “Very Good”
Over on X (previously Twitter), Jose Canas, a producer for Sam Raimi’s manufacturing firm Ghost Home Footage, has revealed that they’d learn the script for what would have been Raimi’s adaptation of The Final of Us and it was “excellent.” The Evil Useless Rise producer did not reveal far more in regards to the script, but it surely’s the primary time an insider has mentioned Raimi’s script for the undertaking.
For some followers, this was the primary they had been even listening to of the cancelled undertaking. “I did not even know this was a factor, particularly with Sam fkin Raimi, with the present being so good I’d like to see how this might have been,” X consumer X-23 Fanatic stated.
However not everybody was so anticipating Raimi’s adaptation. Over on Reddit, consumer NotTaken-username stated that the undertaking would have “in all probability flopped.” They went on to say, “Raimi is an efficient director however his type doesn’t match tonally with the video games. He’s too campy whereas the video games are gritty.”
Sadly, we’ll possible by no means know what Raimi’s model of The Final of Us may have been, but when Jose is to be believed, it was one.
