HBO's adaptation of The Last of Us is set to very closely follow the events of the original PlayStation 3 title, which means there's a possibility the TV giant may recreate some scenes beat for beat. Because of that, and following the confirmation that Pedro Pascal will play the role of Joel while Bella Ramsey is Ellie, fans have already taken it upon themselves to place their likenesses into scenes from the game. Obviously, a couple of these are tongue in cheek, but it's fun to see what The Last of Us could look like once production is wrapped up and we've all secured a subscription to HBO Max.
First up is Reddit user ramykabalan, who has mapped Pascal's face into the scene where Joel is driving Ellie away from the Firefly's base after rescuing her. It's not entirely the actor's face since an app has been used to create the effect, but you get the idea.
Photoshop has come in handy elsewhere as fans take pieces of key art and slap Pascal and Ramsey's faces over the top. One such example is an impressive effort by user DeCurt1998, who adapted a piece of Naughty Dog art.
Finally, our favourite effort comes from Boss Logic himself, who has taken inspiration from The Mandalorian and placed the famous helmet over Joel and turned Ellie into Grogu!
Which one is your favourite? Come up with your own photoshops in the comments below.
[source reddit.com, via twitter.com]
Comments (22)
That Mando, Baby Yoda one had me creasing!
I still can't really imagine it. However I'll give it a chance because Pedro is an amazing actor.
Love Pedro but this guy should take some days off
So hyped for this! Please don't let me die until I see it!
Btw guys, Ratchet and Clank 11th of june, confirmed!
Personally these didn't help (the shopped artwork is especially atrocious) but I'm willing to keep an open mind. I've preemptively written off other casting decisions that actually turned out quite good.
Yeah I think he’s perfect
I don't know why people think he is an amazing actor. He was solid in GoT, but absolutely horrible in WW84. I'll give him a chance though, maybe it was the poor direction in that movie.
Amazing is not a word I would use for him though.
@ILikeStake I agree that his acting was downright clownish in WW84 but I'm willing to attribute some of that to bad writing. I say "some" because I don't know what that was with his all over the place accent.
But anyway, I'm not ready to write him off as a pretty messed up loser guy just yet.
Also watch Prospect if you aren't sold. On top of being a good low budget Scifi, Pascal plays a gruff, shady character with a southern drawl that ends up helping a young girl.
Bad choice for Joel. Bad choice for Ellie. Getting bad feeling this whole thing is going to flop.
@striderbob I wonder how much of that work in Prospect got him this gig. In any case, Pedro did some outstanding voice acting in The Mandalorian, managed to channel some of that Clint Eastwood awesomeness as well, so I'm looking forward to seeing his interpretation of Joel.
I don't know. I still think games should stay games. Turning them into movies or TV shows rarely works. Pedro is a great actor but that girl playing ellie does nothing for me and get ready for a shocker.... I've never seen game of thrones.
Their greed is about to swallow a work of art, and you laugh...
Pedro Pascal is a great choice as Joel, not so sure about the casting of Ellie though. But I'm sure they know what they're doing, she must've impressed them. Just doesn't seem to match, other than having a different accent, she also doesn't look much like Ellie.
Bella Ramsey seems most unfit of the two, Maisie Williams would be my number one GoT pick, would've been a much better Ellie I think.
@Subsided shes too old
@HMazzy111 pedro looks nothing like Joel either ,and with regards to Bella Ramsey let's thank the lord its someone British doing an American accent and not the other way round, I wouldn't want no dick van dyke Ellie.
@Zeldafan79 shes a fantastic actress and wasnt really in many episodes until she got squished by a giant ,but the episodes she was in she sort of stole the show.
@ILikeStake the whole movie was horrible. It actually saddened me that Pedro Pascal damaged his rep by participating in this mess of a movie.
This is just so weird to look at but nice job
It's gonna be a "big success" just like Wonder Woman 1984.
@Boon520 hahahahaha good one
I think Pedro will do a great job
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