Why does bill look weird? They made Nick Offerman look somehow less rugged.

Maybe the lighting is bad? Hopefully he's a little dirty with some scars.

I'm thinking it might be for scenes with Frank, where he'll probably look less rugged vs when Joel and Ellie meet him.

I'm still assblasted that Dafne Keen wasn't cast as Ellie

I didn’t realize they had Gabriel Luna as Tommy. That’s great casting.

I’m still not convinced that this show needs to exist, but I hope they do justice to the source material at least.

Also, if they end up adapting the sequel I’m not sure I could handle it. The first game is sad, but the second one is fucking heartbreaking.

Lamar Johnson looks like Henry jumped straight out of the game and into real life. I don't know what he's acted in previously, but looks-wise, that is A+ casting.

And of course Merle Dandridge literally is Marlene. I'm not sure how they decided which in-game actors would return for their roles (I'm not sure if any did besides her), but I'm happy she's back.

I vaguely remember her talking on Retro Replay about not being able to play Alyx Vance in the new Half-Life for whatever reason. I'm glad she didn't lose another one of her iconic characters.

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Too much Swanson Family Mash Liquor will do that to you.

Did we know that they race swapped Sarah, or are we in for a round of outrage?

That said, very happy with the castings and greatly looking forward to the show.

Yay for Anna Torv.

I think it's a lighting issue for the poster.

It all looks a little too clean and polished. It's only promo posters, though, so I'm hopeful it will look better in the show.

His hair is too clean, it needs that greasy hair-strand look everyone has in the games most of the time.

That’s Dr. Carr to you! :p

His hair looks photoshopped on I think. And it's a weird looking haircut too.

She was announced in June 2021.

That’s good. At least we won’t have to hear the complaining then!

Olivia

Oh it's already started on Twitter.

He looks like King Richard from Galavant

it's most definitely a wig, but yeah it's the hair that's ruining it for me. Too clean and fluffy. Maybe it'll look dirtier in the show or I'm gonna have a hard time taking bill seriously.

You want them to just remake Logan basically

For all of one episode she is in the show excluding flashbacks, I am sure people will still bitch. Despite Sarah being in the game for about a total of 20 minutes.

Love seeing Frank and the implications of what we'll get to see in this story.

Sarah is wearing the same shirt from the prologue.

I still find joy that Marlene's VA is TV Marlene. That's so cool. I also didn't realize she was Half Life 2's Alyx Vance.

All the characters look great. I don't know who Anna Torv is but Tess was my favorite character from TLoU 1, I hope she does her desperation justice.

I think the show has reason to exist. It’s a great story and the show lets other people get exposed to it who wouldn’t have played the game.

Yes

I imagine looking close to her character and being an on-screen actor helped. Troy couldn't be Joel for another few decades and Ashley maaaaybe could've been Ellie if we skipped TLoU 1's story and aged her up a little bit.

its fucking Lyanna Mormont!

That’s Agent Dunham to you!

Anna Torv is an incredible Aussie actress. She was kickass in Fringe and awesome in Mindhunters. I am confident she'll do Tess justice.

Anna Torv was on Mindhunters and was the lead actress on the Fox show Fringe.

I mean the video game is basically a movie or TV show adapted into a game.

It's obviously heavily derived off The Road, Children of Men, and a bunch of other apocalyptic films.

She's also got an absolutely incredible face, it's very fun seeing them go Monster on her with the make-up.

I love Nick Offerman but why didn't they just have Dan Dority come back? He's an HBO darling.

No idea how true this is but rumors were Troy will be >!David!< and Ashley will be >!Ellie's Mom!<. Again those were just random internet rumors so who knows.

I'm still sad that Annie Wersching didnt get to reprise her role as Tess but at least Merle Dandridge is still reprising her role as Marlene.

I’m actually really looking forward to exploring Frank a little more the story tou uncover in the game is great and Murry Bartlett has impressed me lately.

The longer HBO stays silent on >!David!< the more convinced I become that Troy Baker's playing him.

There's no way they'd keep such a high-profile casting a secret if they got a "normal" actor for him. Every other major character from the game has been announced ages ago.

Loved him in the White Lotus! D:

Every other character being kind of dirty makes him being clean stand out even more. Plus, that wig is awful.

Have they said if Season 1 will cover the entirety of LoU1? I could see >!David!< being saved mostly for season 2.

Same ! I just started Chippendales last night and he’s great in that. It took me so long to realize that it was him.

I love anything Pedro Pascal touches. Great choice for Joel

could have sworn I read season 1 is entirety of season1(plus the left behind stuff too(?))

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Murray Bartlett looking like a skinny Zach Galifinakis

Oberyn Martell and Lyanna Mormont going on a journey

I knew when I saw the headline the obvious choice would be to present Riley [game spoilers] >!with Left Behind's whole fairground vibe but I wasn't prepared. 10/10, heart already breaking again!<

If you shoot him as is then he'll make everyone else look less rugged by comparison - gotta fancy him up a little

Also, [game spoilers] >!given that we have a Frank we may be seeing some of him when he gave more shits about self care!<

I don't think filming time has anything to do with the length of time covered in the show. It took a year because it's the first season of a big budget 10 episode TV show.

I'll take the downvotes with you, my brother. I dont dislike Bella as ellie, but I think dafne would have been perfect.

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I'm not sure why, because it would've been great. I think I saw him on Twitter a while back saying they didn't even ask.

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I'm confident they will do the source material justice... considering the showrunners are Neil Druckmann (creator of the original game) and Mazin (wrote/created Chernobyl, which is a fantastic show).

Thats Fauxlivia to you!

Anna Torv is in this? My excitement just went up by magnitudes.

Exactly. My gf will never ever play or watch the video game because story video games just don’t interest her, especially scary ones. She will watch the show for sure, though.

The game has 4 segments set in different seasons of the year. The shooting schedule was spread out to match that. It’s definitely the whole thing.

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Check out the ozzie series The Newsreader starring her, it's great

Nick Offerman is morphing into Timothy Omundson.

they did storm reid so dirty with that poster

Well it would have been a little weird to race swap Joel and not do it to Sarah too

Nick Offerman? I'm in.

You gotta respect a man who grooms himself during the apocalypse.

True, though the fact that Sarah and Ellie are both white in the game helps to push Joel's uncomfortable feelings when he first runs into Ellie.

Sarah and Ellie not looking much alike physically removes that though perhaps it also opens the story to easing Joel and Ellie into a slow burn father daughter relationship. The game kind of slaps you upside the head with that early on for pacing purposes that a show doesn't have to do given that it'll probably run 3-4 seasons at a minimum.

Not sure how I feel about the look of Grabiel Luna as Tommy. It's not the actor's fault (it's a positive in fact) but he doesn't look 39 (his actual age), I would at most guess 30. They should have put a beard on him, made him look a bit older and scruffy.

Sam and Henry 🥺

Pedro Pascal is actually completely white (Spanish and Basque). And Sarah's actress isn't Hispanic so I wouldn't say the change was necessary (not saying it's necessarily a bad thing but just sorting out the facts).

They fell right into her vagenda!

Jake Gyllenhaal was least of that movie's problems, I think they actually got the look of him quite right.

I mean, Frank does not look great in the game either. Edit: Am I thinking of Bill?

Murray Bartlett is in this yay!! Loved him in The White Lotus S1.

You might as well just replay the game if you just want a 1:1 remake

Craig Mazin (show runner) has definitely confirmed that the first season is a full adaption of Part I. However, the shooting all year thing isn’t actually a great piece of evidence of that btw. Shows and movies commonly shoot in different seasons than what the scene calls for. You’d be surprised how well a good set crew can do to make any season plausible on-screen, no matter what really is happening outside.

Was he already announced or is this new because I had no idea he was in it, didn't even recognise him on the poster he looks so different to me

Most of the info about the filming has shown a pretty close match to the timing in the game. And I’d be very surprised by a crew making a different season look right on screen since it would a major first. Apparently some early snow came while filming the Autumn stuff, so I’ll be curious to see how they handled that.

You’re thinking of Bill. >!Frank was Bill’s partner. Died before J+E get there. Joel recovers his suicide note.!<

Cool. Cool. Scrolling down the list of character names and trying not to preemptively cry.

Aaaah that's right. Forgotten with the years.

It’s be just as delightful if it’s Nolan. =D

I’m really interested in how they’re gonna expand Frank’s role. Murray Bartlett playing the role only makes me more interested.

Who was Frank again, I don’t remember him from the game

Bills "partner" that he's mad about when you meet him.

You cast based on acting ability not exact physical appearance

Bella Ramsey was such a bright point in the not so hot greater seasons of GOT, I absolutely cant wait to see her in this.

As someone who doesn’t play video games anymore, I’ve heard nothing but incredible things about this game in particular for its story. I’m very happy they are translating this to TV so I can see it for myself.

Got it👌 thanks

Wtf it doesn’t push anything. Personality and connection matters not race. Besides Ellie and Sarah don’t look that much alike other than being white. I can guarantee you Joel would feel no difference if their skin color was the same or not unless you want to install implicit bias into a fictional character.

"Love seeing Frank and the implications of what we'll get to see in this story"

I'm guessing Bill just mentioning "There's this dude called Frank that I loved, but he died" like in the game won't cut it in terms of homosexual representation

So the writers made Frank a whole characters to make his and Bill's sexuality more apparent

Never did the left behind stuff so I'm down for that.

Fighting white walkers

I am not sure why, but I’m just really sad at the casting for Ellie for some reason. Everything about game ellie those is amazing, so I guess maybe I’d never be happy lol I just pictured someone different!

Also, I do feel Jaime Lannister would have made a perfect Joel! Lol I always thought Joel in the game looked uncanny.

The show is gonna be awesome though, I’m so stoked

I just want to see their rendition of the opening scene from the first game. That piece of cinema was so damn riveting it’s stayed with me since the first time I played

At 1:15 in this trailer there's two shots of Joel grabbing Ellie's face which to me are pretty clearly from the end of the Winter segment. Although they're outside instead of in the building.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBRRDpQ0yc0

If that is from Winter, then I don't see why they wouldn't cover the whole game in season 1. That's basically the end of the game.

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Am I crazy or does Pascal look like he could be playing an old Nathan Drake in that pic?

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Sweet summer child.

I'm happy with what we have, but I fail to understand why people are downvoting this so hard. Like it's just someones opinion, a bit higher people are upvoting another suggestion for an actor for a different character.

Because a character is more than their looks? Because an adaption does not need to be a second to second copy of the source material?

You are in for a wild ride if you expect the exact same story beats to happen in order without anything new added and other parts removed.. gonna be rough.

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“You raped her, you murdered her, you killed her children!”

If the second game is anything to go by, there'll still be an entire subreddit dedicated to complaining about it 2+ years after it's already out lol.

funny how the series was shot just outside my office, I could see them from my window and walk past fake post-apocalyptic vehicles in the mornings

All I want to know at this point is who plays David.

This looks like it will be amazing.

I really hope this deviates a lot from the game series. I’m much less interested if I already know the story and where the characters are going.

Bella Ramsey also looks nothing like Ellie and isn’t Hispanic either