The studios behind The Last of Us movie wanted big set pieces and action, something that the creators at Naughty Dog felt wasn’t necessary to tell their story.
Announced in March 2020, the HBO adaption of The Last of Us is currently in the works.
Originally in the works at Screen Gems and Sony in 2014, production issues were reported on widely in 2016 before the entire The Last of Us movie project fell apart.
According to Druckmann on the Script Apart podcast, this was due to unnamed studio executives expecting more bombast from a video game property.