Maisie Williams, the Game of Thrones star, says she'll likely star in The Last of Us film adaptation.
Maisie Williams has been in talks to star in The Last of Us movie as Ellie since SDCC, and although we have no confirmation as of yet, Williams did give us an update about whether she'd be playing the spunky teenager from the highly acclaimed 2013 video game. She says it's "looking like yes."
This is all comes from IGN, who had a chat with the young Game of Thronesstar about the upcoming film, which will be a direct adaptation of the game's story.
Williams went on to share her thoughts about the initial reaction fans had to her rumored casting as Ellie:
There was a whole thing that went on Twitter [of fans suggesting me for the role]," she explained. I didn’t know a lot about [the game]. I Googled it. Ashley Johnson — who did Ellie’s voice — [fans] asked her what she thought of me and she said, ‘That’s pretty much my dream.’ I don’t follow her but I was silently stalking her wondering what she thought of all this.
So the way it was left is they want me to do it, and I want to do it.
And when I got my American agent and he said, "If there’s anything you want to do, let us know"— America’s got such that can-do attitude. That was the first time I came to him with anything. So he said he’d set us up for a meeting next time I’m in America. And they did. So I had a meeting with [producer] Sam Raimi and [game director] Neil Druckmann. And they said they’d love if you would moderate the panel at Comic-Con, but you’d need to watch the walk-through and know your s*** because there are massive fans of this and we wouldn’t want it to go wrong.
I was doing so much work for Thrones that I didn’t want to half-arse do it, so I said I’m not going to [moderate]. They said fine, but they’re gonna announce they had talks. So the way it was left is they want me to do it, and I want to do it. But there’s no script, no director, and no anything else. So at this moment, it’s looking like, ‘Yes,’ but it’s still such early days. If they make it in 30 years, they can’t have a 40-year-old Ellie. So at the moment, it’s looking good, and I’d love to do it. Hell yeah.”
Well, she's in. How about you? Tell us in the comments.
As far as any kind of release date for The Last of Us movie, there is none.
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