The Last of Us: Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin Explain Why Bill and Frank's Story Changed

The third episode of The Last of US surprised us completely. While it was already expected to be given a greater focus on the relationship between Bill and Frank, something that is not explored in the game, the series made a series of important changes. In this way, Neil Luckmann and Craig Main, the creators of this production, have revealed why they decided to modify what Naughty Dog presented us in the past. While in the game Bill and Frank are two colleagues who clearly had a story among them, their participation is not so great. However, in the series they star in a love story that not only gives us hope in this post-apocalyptic world, but also radically changes the events that are carried out with them. In an interview with IGN, this is what Luckmann commented:

In a way, it is also a warning signal for Joel (…) In the television series we could get out of the perspective of our main character, because in the game we are very attached to purely Joel or purely Ellie. Here, we could see what happened with Bill at the outbreak.

[Craig Main], it seemed to me, he always understood that it would be great to see him on television, and the world he created with the script he wrote for the game... As far as I am concerned, it is complicated enough and wide enough and sufficiently wide enough and Interesting and philosophical to be flexible to changes in [how] it adapts to a different medium. For his part, Craig Main said: I am especially happy for the way Bill… has managed to inspire Joel to take Ellie to the west.

He has given Joel this posthumous instruction that men like you and I are here for a reason, to protect the people we love, and that God helps anyone who gets in our way. At the end of the day, this change is also a way that Joel learns an important lesson about taking care of people who care, something that is not explicitly mentioned in the game, but we see how he develops throughout the adventure. It is very likely that this is not the last change, and extensive sections that in the game were focused on the gameplay, are replaced by new stories and people never seen before.

In related issues, this is the trailer of the next chapter of the series. Similarly, Tess actress in the game has died. Editor's note: The third episode was spectacular, and although the changes are something that surely worried more than one, it is clear that the adaptation is trying to reach the same point, but with a different path and, so far, this has had a positive result. Via: IG