A few days ago, it was announced that child actress Nico Parker, who made her screen debut in Tim Burton's live-action Dumbo and has since appeared on a few episodes of the TV series The Third Day, has signed on to appear in the HBO show The Last of Us. Parker is taking on the role of Sarah, the daughter of Pedro Pascal's character Joel and the niece of Gabriel Luna's character Tommy. The Last of Us is now filming, and Luna took to his Instagram account to share a picture of himself, Pascal, and Parker on set. You can see the happy family below.
Based on the popular video game of the same name, The Last of Us takes place
twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed. Joel (Pascal), a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie (Bella 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.
Pascal's Joel is "tormented by past trauma and failure. He must trek across a pandemic-ravaged America, all the while protecting a girl who represents the last hope of humanity." Ramsey's Ellie is "a 14-year-old orphan who has never known anything but a ravaged planet and who struggles to balance her instinct for anger and defiance with her need for connection and belonging… as well as the newfound reality that she may be the key to saving the world." Luna's Tommy is "a former soldier who hasn't lost his sense of idealism and hope for a better world."
Also in the cast is Merle Dandridge as a character named Marlene. This is a character Dandridge did the vocal performance for in game and its sequel. Marlene is "the head of the Fireflies, a resistance movement struggling for freedom against an oppressive military regime."
I haven't played The Last of Us, so I don't know the characters or their stories, but I get the feeling that Sarah isn't going to be around very long.
The series is a co-production with Sony Pictures Television, PlayStation Productions, Word Games, The Mighty Mint, and game developer Naughty Dog. The video game's creative director Neil Druckmann serves as executive producer alongside Carolyn Strauss, Naughty Dog's Evan Wells, Asad Qizilbash and Carter Swan of PlayStation Productions, and the show's writer Craig Mazin.
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